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Lisa
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 Posted - 11/16/2001 : 16:18:45
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http://www.aps.org/WN/
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2. BIOTERRORISM: ALTERNATIVE RESPONSES TO EXPOSURE.
The chair of the House Government Reform Committee, Dan Burton (R-IN), held a hearing Wednesday on how to respond to bio-terrorist attacks. Burton can't understand why we don't just treat this stuff with alternative medicine (WN 19 Oct 01). For Burton, this is nothing new; in a 1999 hearing on Alternative Medicine his lead witness was Jane Seymour, who played Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman on TV (WN 12 Feb 99). This time, however, Stephen Straus, director of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine was testifying, and it wasn't what Burton wanted to hear. Straus questioned "whether the measures that some are promoting do anything more than prey upon people's fears and distract them from taking more prudent steps to protect themselves... It may not even be prudent to combine such natural products with antibiotics because of the possibility that they would interfere with proper action of the drugs." Perhaps fearing a backlash, many in the alternative medicine industry have issued unprecedented warnings to the public not to use their products to treat or cure anthrax.
Will reports like this finally make people realize exactly how much value alternative medicine is? Nah. I mean if you have such medical luminaries such as Jame Seymore testifying on your behalf, you must be right.
Lisa
If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room.
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Donnie B.
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Posted - 11/16/2001 : 17:58:45 [Permalink]
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"I'm not a quack, but I play one on TV..." 
-- Donnie B.
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@tomic
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 11/16/2001 : 18:05:31 [Permalink]
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A quack, eh? I used to love you in Duckman!
@tomic
Gravity, not just a good idea...it's the law! |
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Donnie B.
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Posted - 11/16/2001 : 18:06:55 [Permalink]
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Hmmm... sorry, I missed that reference. Guess I'm just not "with it" these days...
-- Donnie B.
Brian: "No, no! You have to think for yourselves!" Crowd: "Yes! We have to think for ourselves!" |
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James
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 11/16/2001 : 18:24:45 [Permalink]
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If you have cable and get Comedy Central, Monday mornings at 1:30 AM Eastern there's a hour of Duckman. Jason Alexander(George Costanza from Sienfeld) did the voice of Duckman.
"Necessity may be the mother of invention, but laziness is usually the father." -Bailey's First Law |
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Lisa
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 11/16/2001 : 18:32:23 [Permalink]
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"I'm not a quack, but I play one on TV..."
-- Donnie B.
Brian: "No, no! You have to think for yourselves!" Crowd: "Yes! We have to think for ourselves!"
Yep, this is right up there with Meryl Streep testifying to Congress in the whole Alar/apples flap. Gee, did I miss Ms. Streep's paper "Chemical Analysis of Bio-Contaminants"?
Lending starpower to a cause like raising money for *your favourite disease here* is one thing. But "Stars" testifying on subjects they don't know jackdammit about, and probably couldn't understand, even if you used really really little words? Give me a break. An actress yammers at Congress for a while, so now some of my tax dollars are supposed to support alternative medicine? P'tooie! Did any serious medical researchers testify? Who knows? Why should the media give airtime or ink to some wonk scientist, when it can give the public what it really wants: what are Meryl Streep and Jane Seymore doing?
Lisa
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Donnie B.
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 11/16/2001 : 20:05:50 [Permalink]
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Why should the media give airtime or ink to some wonk scientist, when it can give the public what it really wants: what are Meryl Streep and Jane Seymore doing?
Yeah, Lisa... but they're so concerned and sincere...
-- Donnie B.
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