Comments on: What’s Really Wrong With the MSM? http://susiemadrak.com/2007/12/07/12/06/whats-really-wrong-with-the-msm/ Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:14:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Susie http://susiemadrak.com/2007/12/07/12/06/whats-really-wrong-with-the-msm/#comment-132994 Susie Sun, 09 Dec 2007 13:29:36 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2007/12/07/12/06/whats-really-wrong-with-the-msm/#comment-132994 See? And people think I'm too hard on the pharmaceutical industry. They make harmful drugs that don't work and often produce the very thing they're supposed to fix (antidepressants) - but I'm just crazy. I haven't seen read anything yet, but I'll bet you anything that kid who just shot up that mall was on antidepressants. See? And people think I’m too hard on the pharmaceutical industry. They make harmful drugs that don’t work and often produce the very thing they’re supposed to fix (antidepressants) - but I’m just crazy.

I haven’t seen read anything yet, but I’ll bet you anything that kid who just shot up that mall was on antidepressants.

]]> By: scotus http://susiemadrak.com/2007/12/07/12/06/whats-really-wrong-with-the-msm/#comment-132993 scotus Sun, 09 Dec 2007 11:20:26 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2007/12/07/12/06/whats-really-wrong-with-the-msm/#comment-132993 The point about settlements of silence is very well taken. I have a friend who was fired from Cap Cities/ABC after more than two decades for having a double mastectomy (not kidding). Her settlement requires her silence (but not mine). She worked for their medical group. They publish magazines to keep doctors up to date on the latest news and developments in medicine. They regularly quashed stories about discoveries of various side effects (or lack of efficacy) for prescription medications. On the grounds that their advertisers (who are mostly pharmaceutical companies). Even when it was scientists from the pharmaceuticals who were publishing the papers warning about the side effects. Even when the papers pointed to other prescription medications which did not have the problems. If my friend had not signed the non-disclosure agreement after the settlement, she could have written a very interesting article on the consequences of these practices to our healthcare system (perhaps even a book). (Her settlement was way less than $3 million, by the way. But the money was important to her at the time.) The point about settlements of silence is very well taken.

I have a friend who was fired from Cap Cities/ABC after more than two decades for having a double mastectomy (not kidding). Her settlement requires her silence (but not mine).

She worked for their medical group. They publish magazines to keep doctors up to date on the latest news and developments in medicine. They regularly quashed stories about discoveries of various side effects (or lack of efficacy) for prescription medications. On the grounds that their advertisers (who are mostly pharmaceutical companies). Even when it was scientists from the pharmaceuticals who were publishing the papers warning about the side effects. Even when the papers pointed to other prescription medications which did not have the problems.

If my friend had not signed the non-disclosure agreement after the settlement, she could have written a very interesting article on the consequences of these practices to our healthcare system (perhaps even a book). (Her settlement was way less than $3 million, by the way. But the money was important to her at the time.)

]]> By: Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog http://susiemadrak.com/2007/12/07/12/06/whats-really-wrong-with-the-msm/#comment-132959 Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog Sat, 08 Dec 2007 04:30:38 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2007/12/07/12/06/whats-really-wrong-with-the-msm/#comment-132959 "CBS's own committee of inquiry took no position on their veracity" but it should have. All available evidence consistently indicates that Bush simply walked away from his commitment to serve. The issue of whether these particular documents were originals, reproductions, or forgeries is a glowingly red herring. That part of Alterman's piece seemed to me rather thin gruel. Of course, maybe he didn't follow the story of Bush's ANG service very closely ... who knows? “CBS’s own committee of inquiry took no position on their veracity” but it should have. All available evidence consistently indicates that Bush simply walked away from his commitment to serve. The issue of whether these particular documents were originals, reproductions, or forgeries is a glowingly red herring.

That part of Alterman’s piece seemed to me rather thin gruel. Of course, maybe he didn’t follow the story of Bush’s ANG service very closely … who knows?

]]> By: JJ http://susiemadrak.com/2007/12/07/12/06/whats-really-wrong-with-the-msm/#comment-132942 JJ Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:05:50 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2007/12/07/12/06/whats-really-wrong-with-the-msm/#comment-132942 "Draft avoidance" seems a mild term to use when speaking of desertion in a time of war... “Draft avoidance” seems a mild term to use when speaking of desertion in a time of war…

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