Re: me too drugs marketing darlings and little else

["fresh~horses" <fresh~horses@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sbharris[atsign]ix.netcom.com wrote:
> fresh~horses wrote:
> > Sbharris[atsign]ix.netcom.com wrote:
>
> > > > Well there is balance. Somewhere between India and the U.S. ... lies
> > > > Canada.
> > > >
> > > > Zee
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Not any more. India is well on the way back to capitalism. Canada
> > > edging into the unenviable title of most communistic country on Earth
> > > right now, along with Cuba and North Korea (the only other countries
> > > that don't allow a private medical care system).
> > >
> > > I'm taking nominations for worse ones.
> > >
> > > SBH
> >
> >
> > If that's your criteria I guess you're right. ... post hoc ergo proctor
> > hoc?
>
> COMMENT:
>
> That's *propter* hoc, evil bird of bad causal omens in epidemiology. It
> sits on the palid bust of Pascal like Poe's raven, croaking
> "Neverknow." And some real skeptics of causality like Hume would argue
> that the Propter Hawk is the only reason for causality we ever real
> have, and since it's a bad one, we're screwed.....
>
> But if you're making an obscure bilingual pun about the historical
> inevitability of managed care systems, you get a belated smile.
>
> SBH


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