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To: Captain7seas

Post hoc ergo proper hoc. Someone who is deeply disturbed often seek help in one form or another, and they are often prescribed psychotropics. It does not imply a causal relationship. Consider: many arthritis sufferers take ibuprofen. Therefore we might conclude that ibuprofen causes arthritis, or at least provokes it. Frankly I’m tired of seeing people stop medications that were really helping because the goddamn AMERICAN PRESS has convinced them that they will die if they use Nexium for more than two weeks. Do you folks honestly believe that medical reporting is any better than political reportage in this country. It’s the same dumbasses who write the stuff /rant


39 posted on 03/21/2018 5:49:13 PM PDT by JusPasenThru (It is OK to be white.)
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To: JusPasenThru
Frankly I’m tired of seeing people stop medications that were really helping because the goddamn AMERICAN PRESS has convinced them that they will die if they use Nexium for more than two weeks.

40mg/day for, uh, about 13 years now. I check the obituaries every day, but so far, I'm still not listed there.

The media are not about truth or information anyway, they are there to "make you look." For that purpose, lies work just as well as truth, and are easier for them to make up, especially when they can deflect the blame for them onto their "sources".

59 posted on 03/23/2018 11:08:29 AM PDT by thulldud ("What makes it news is its dissemination, not its concrete reality." -- Ellul)
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