In article <[email hidden]>,
hotmoon said:The drug companies invent this drug. Then they figure out if it does
anything. If it makes some symptom go away, whatever symptom, then,
if necessary, they invent a new disease name and convince the idiot
MDs that there is such a disease.
Sometimes, Roger, you seem reasonably sane. This is not one of those
times. "Idiot MDs?" What's this -- envy that you were too dim to get
into medical school?
Quoted message said:Then they sell it either directly to the MDs or indirectly through
the public. Remember FSD. The idiots define diseases not by causes
but by symptoms.
That's what syndromes are all about -- you can sometimes identify a
diseased state even if you don't know what's causing it. They had
words for things like colds or flu before we knew about viruses.
Quoted message said:This works out perfectly for the drug companies.
This is what they call science.
This is what you call "too hard for Roger to understand."
Quoted message said:But it is really about money and the shallowness of the thinking of
the American public. These greedy drug companies couldn't get away
with this if the American public weren't so shallow. MDism is not
about health; it is about money.
Well, golly, thank goodness we have you, with your giant intellect, to
set us straight here. Give us some more contempt for the American
public while you're at it -- it makes you look so humanitarian.
Quoted message said:Viagra is a good example. Impotence has many causes, and some of them
can be fatal. But the drug companies want to make money. They don't
give a rat's rear-end about your health. So, they, in conjunction
with the MDs, make the symptoms go away, but the cause remains. The
cause could be heart disease. So a guy has 3 more months of great sex
and drops dead of a heart attack.
Except that there are plenty of contraindications to the use of
Viagra, and certain types of cardiovascular disease are among them.
I suppose they could all learn to live with their impotence, as I
gather you have, but maybe some of them don't want to.
-- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net
These are my opinions only, but they're almost always correct.
"If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants
were standing on my shoulders." (Hal Abelson, MIT)
