Friday, March 07, 2008

Compare and Contrast

.. the following.

1.) This from the publicity material for Damian Thompson's Counterknowledge -

"Conspiracy theories, alternative medicine, creationism and the like are all notions consigned largely to the outer reaches of societal thinking, right? Wrong, according to Damian Thompson. Having spread – largely care of the internet – in the 21st century, such wacky ideas as the US administration masterminding 9/11 and China discovering America in 1421 are penetrating dangerously far into public, and even government thinking. All that, despite being ‘counterknowledge’ – ie sexed-up theories based on not a shred of empirical truth."

2. This from the Guardian -

"Not only did Seroxat make some children feel like killing themselves, but it worked no better than a placebo, the document showed ... The [Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Authority] made clear yesterday it was convinced GSK was aware of the dangers of Seroxat to children some time before the company told the regulator. But not only was it unable to prosecute GSK under the existing laws, it was also prevented from revealing what it had discovered under secrecy rules related to the commercial confidentiality arrangements.
So at the end of an investigation in which the MHRA's investigators negotiated on 103occasions with GSK lawyers over obtaining documents and accumulated 1m pages of evidence, the situation remains as it was in 2003. Nobody outside GSK and the MHRA officially knows who knew what and when."

Now, tell me, just how much use is it to go on about the problems associated with alternative medicine while ignoring the very serious problems in conventional medicine?

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