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her ignorance is so utterly frustrating.
If you want a drug w/ no side effects (or real effects for that matter) then buy your “meds” from an infomercial.
God in heaven forbid that a company profit from helping sick people. Why don’t we just not offer any tx for Osteoporosis then we’ll never have to worry about ‘terrifying esophagitis’. We’ll just have millions of old women breaking spines/hips/arms/legs. Never mind the stat that 50% of pts who break a hip die in 1 yr….
Why do lay people trust the writings of an [medically] uneducated individual over that of a doctor? I wonder if she would hold a grudge against Salk and Fleming for all the “big smallpox” or “big PCN” money they made. Bastards. How dare they try to save lives!!!
The “popular” indignation that only the most coddled and privileged can afford: to presume the privilege of having others work for no benefit to themselves. It is a self-indulgent, infantile form of magical thinking. Because something alleviates suffering, it should be had for close to nought? That is truly a exception in the history of man. It is merely the novelty of the occasionally replete society.
It won’t and can’t last. Scarcity is the more general condition, and has a way of introducing itself from time to time with the subtlety of a 2×4 to the face.
Strange comments above. I wish I understood what they mean. Quart’s article is excellent and an embarassment to me as a doctor.
“Bastards. How dare they try to save lives!!!”
Well sometimes they don’t. Quart hits the nail on the head. We need honesty in science – why would anyone argue against that. Dishonesty does not “save lives”.
I thought the Quart article was good – and am glad at least some reporters are latching on to these things. The first two responses here are incoherent.
What statements!son “Why do lay people trust the writings of an [medically] uneducated individual over that of a doctor?”
Woooah???
See Giles for the mothering approach of these pharma drones – poor quality ones in this instance. Gives the impression of text generated by some sort of computerized phrase generator. Wonder how much these trolls cost? The cheaper end of the troll market?
The newspaper article in question is now subscription only now, but a copy is here:
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