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To: DallasMike
Uh ... my "unlearned and backwards" statement was based on research that shows the drugs in question are no better than the placebos they're tested against. Just by coincidence, that happens to be the main point of the article that starts this thread.

Did you happen to read the article, by any chance, or are you so learned and progressive that you can skip such formalities?

67 posted on 05/08/2002 10:44:00 PM PDT by watchin
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To: watchin
Did you happen to read the article, by any chance, or are you so learned and progressive that you can skip such formalities?

Yes, I read the article. Did you read the study? What were the criteria to be accepted for the study -- people just "feeling blue" or people who had been diagnosed with difficult-to-treat clinical depression? Were people with bipolar depression included in the study? And what were the characteristics of the control group?

If you can't answer those things, or if you don't know what I'm talking about (I purposefully avoided technical language as much as I could) then you shouldn't be touting this newspaper article as the end-all in scientific study. For that matter, what are your qualifications as a scientist?

100 posted on 05/09/2002 6:59:38 AM PDT by DallasMike
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