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To: Zon
It's obvious that you didn't read the article at the link supplied. Have it your way. Your problem, not mine. Deal with it. Or don't. Makes no difference to me.

Anectodatal reports by a journalist writing for "New Age" magazine does not mean squat when you have to advise a patient about what the odds are with each type of treatment for his type of cancer.

I "deal with it" every day in my medical practice. The difference between the two of us is that you have the luxury of putting out unsubstantiated claims that are not supported by any outcome data and nobody pays for your advice with their lives.

69 posted on 07/26/2006 12:09:13 PM PDT by Polybius
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To: Polybius
A government that wields the power to force a person to not take a drug -- as is the case with prohibition of some drugs, also known as the WOsomeD -- wields the power to force a person to take a drug. I wonder what you think about government coercing parents to put their elementary-school-age children on Ritalin.

Rhetoric from the supporters  of public-school say that if public schools were eliminated in favor of the free market providing schooling that private schools would not take bad kids. I doubt it would be even a small fraction as many kids as public schools coerce "bad" kids to take Ritalin.

Standard operating procedure for the FDA is to let five, six, ten or more people suffer or die from lack of medication or therapy rather than grant FDA approval for the drug or therapy that causes one person to suffer or die from the drug or therapy. That's government/FDA forced prohibition of life saving, suffer-reducing drugs. 

Are you for or against the WOD? Consistent to principle I am against the government forcing prohibition of drugs or therapy and against the forced ingestion of drugs or therapy. The common denominator is force. Specifically, the initiation of force.

70 posted on 07/26/2006 1:37:40 PM PDT by Zon (Honesty outlives the lie, spin and deception -- It always has -- It always will.)
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