Re: Deeply disturbing news story

[Guest guest]

Is scary, . Whats scarier is that news and advertising knows that people

can believe just about anything to be true after hearing it repeated for less

than a dozen times. The disease and pharmaceutical news and ads alone should

drive anyone to search out better health before they're reduced to whats being

said.

Wanita

[Guest guest]

P.S. Another consideration,as this is from Germany is the recall of , class

action lawsuits and bad publicity for Baycol, a cholesterol lowering drug.

Made

by Bayer, a German corporation. Bayer also thought they were the shoe in for

Cipro, the anthrax drug. That contract was given to a Canadian drug corp.

Wanita

[Guest guest]

Wanita wrote:

>Is scary, . Whats scarier is that news and advertising knows that people

>can believe just about anything to be true after hearing it repeated for less

>than a dozen times.

Does that include what's on this group? <weg>

> The disease and pharmaceutical news and ads alone should

>drive anyone to search out better health before they're reduced to whats being

>said.

I don't think we have to push the panic button quite yet. Europe is

several steps ahead of us in Internet censorship and censorship in

general (see the new French anti-cult law). But this bears looking at.

Here in the US our approach is a little different. We'll let you make

up your own mind about health. But it you try to do anything about

your decision, and it involves somebody else, forget it! We're not

trusted to make decisions about raw milk, medical marijuana, or a

plethora of other health issues. And as long as people expect

governments to save them from their own mistakes, we'll never be free

of that.

[Guest guest]

Quick wrote:

> Does that include what's on this group? <weg>

I hope you feel very very bad. I had to spend far too much time to figure

out that <weg> apparently means wicked evil grin...which I might add, can

also be communicated like this X-}

I know this is off-topic, but I figured that there had to be at least a few

other people who have been trying to figure out what the heck <weg> meant.

[Guest guest]

At 04:20 PM 3/8/02 -0500, you wrote:

>Wanita wrote:

>>Is scary, . Whats scarier is that news and advertising knows that

people

>>can believe just about anything to be true after hearing it repeated for

less

>>than a dozen times.

>

>Does that include what's on this group? <weg>

Oh, no. There's common sense here.

>

>Here in the US our approach is a little different. We'll let you make

>up your own mind about health. But it you try to do anything about

>your decision, and it involves somebody else, forget it! We're not

>trusted to make decisions about raw milk, medical marijuana, or a

>plethora of other health issues. And as long as people expect

>governments to save them from their own mistakes, we'll never be free

>of that.

More common sense :-)

[Guest guest]

A good place to find explanations of abbreviations is http://www.atomica.com or

http://acronymfinder.com that atomica uses.

Roman

Kroyer wrote:

> Quick wrote:

> > Does that include what's on this group? <weg>

>

> I hope you feel very very bad. I had to spend far too much time to figure

> out that <weg> apparently means wicked evil grin...which I might add, can

> also be communicated like this X-}

>

> I know this is off-topic, but I figured that there had to be at least a few

> other people who have been trying to figure out what the heck <weg> meant.

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

On Fri, 8 Mar 2002 16:20:37 -0500 Quick <jaq@...> writes:

Here in the US our approach is a little different. We'll let you make

up your own mind about health. But it you try to do anything about

your decision, and it involves somebody else, forget it! We're not

trusted to make decisions about raw milk, medical marijuana, or a

plethora of other health issues. *And as long as people expect

governments to save them from their own mistakes, we'll never be free

of that.*

,

There is profound truth in your statement above. I hope people don't miss

it. Until we take responsibility for our own lives and our *own

decisions*, we will forever be at the mercy of the " regulators " and what

*they* believe is best for us.

Bianca