Cougher

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by Cougher 7y ago
Yes we do. People see the equation as drug + drug = relief. Pharmaceutical companies see the equation as drug + drug + patent = $
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by Cougher 7y ago
"A jury of our peers is as good as it gets, folks. Even with the drawbacks it will never get better." I'm never understood such blind chauvinism, particularly here in light of all that's been said in this thread: https:
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by Cougher 7y ago
Retraction Watch says "hello".
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by Cougher 7y ago
I don't know that we've sufficiently evolved to walk and chew gum at the same time, yet here we are, walking and texting at the same time. The answer is obvious: there's going to come a day when we're going to be walking
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by Cougher 7y ago
The good versus bad narrative is also determined by the source/reader's orientation: Western medicine is corrupt and bad; natural solutions are wholesome and good. Natural medicine is anti-science and bad; western medicine = scien
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by Cougher 7y ago
Of course! Any good cook needs to sample the product to ensure that it's good enough to serve!
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by Cougher 7y ago
More amusing: In the US, the buyer is often considered smart.
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by Cougher 7y ago
It didn't work out that way in my case. Prison/jail phone systems are a wreck. I wasn't able to contact my attorney and when I brought this up to the corrections officers, they said that I had no right to. Whether this was tr
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by Cougher 7y ago
Unfortunately, finding a good lawyer, or surgeon, is kind of like finding a good auto mechanic. If the people who are providing the endorsement are not overly familiar with the process, that endorsement may not be of much value. And sometim
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by Cougher 7y ago
Thorny indeed. I was targeted and fired by my employer for being a whistleblower-in-the-making. I hired the lawyer that a doctor chose for being scape-goated in the same case. The lawyer was great for the doctor; not so much for the peon. S
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by Cougher 7y ago
"The amount of adverse inference a jury will take from silence is limited if you later give a good explanation in court." If it was possible to "sticky" a comment here, this would be the stickiestable comment.
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by Cougher 7y ago
"it wasn't all that long ago that an IPA coming from a London brewery could have been more bitter than a standard American IPA nowadays." This is a very loose implication that I won't bother addressing, nor your use of t
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by Cougher 7y ago
"Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law." I thought I knew what this phrase meant, but its truth never hit home until I stood before a judge. Perhaps it would be better phrased as " everything yo
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by Cougher 7y ago
"The days when one could get away with marketing something like Shiner Bock as a bock are long gone." Can I look forward to the days when one can't get away with marketing American IPAs as IPAs? Because they're nothing l
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by Cougher 7y ago
Very true. Companies are trusted to perform their own testing which is, at best, only testing for superficial, short-term effects. And substances are tested singly, despite the fact that we know that their effects are often multiplied by or
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by Cougher 7y ago
I generally agree about the hammer of the state angle, but another angle here is that if medical people are addicted to drugs and they have access to patients' drugs, they can potentially skim some of the drugs that they're suppos
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by Cougher 7y ago
"I was trying to very politely tell you you're arguing a strawman." Even if the policy was a misguided bad idea, the intent behind it was to protect vulnerable people from viral bullying, which has ruined people's lives
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by Cougher 7y ago
This presents an interesting diversion: the phenomenon of anesthesiologists who are addicted to drugs. I worked with one who lost his position as chief because he was caught buying street drugs . . . on a city street. If people who are so w
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by Cougher 7y ago
I agree with much of what you say, but it would have a much better impact if you didn't phrase it in such an angry, finger-pointing rant that doesn't really seem to fit here. Yes, a lot of people become addicted to drugs via their
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by Cougher 7y ago
I'm very skeptical of this. A common claim that's long been floated around the medical community, most recently in the "evidence-based" medical community, is that if there isn't a hard test for a condition, then it&
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by Cougher 7y ago
Commenting about some of the comments . . . Yes, ads are what keeps facebook and other websites running, but there's a blurred line that crosses from offering content for users to offering users as product. To attract readers, they pro
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by Cougher 7y ago
It reminds me of one of the reasons why I stopped using Getoffmylawnbook: far too many of my friends were using it to complain about "kids today". They were angry and indignant about things like kids being allowed to use calculato
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by Cougher 7y ago
Average people can matter in very important ways indeed.
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by Cougher 7y ago
I generally agree with your comment, but I think it could use further elaboration. This is going to sound ridiculously obvious, but obviously it isn't: most things in life are a lot more complicated than we think. Like what it means to
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by Cougher 7y ago
It's funny that everywhere we see the discussion of weight loss, there's so much insistence that this "one way is the only valid way" because of "this irrefutable process that science proves is real". Yet milli
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by Cougher 7y ago
This is the stereotypical speculation that comes with diet claims.
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by Cougher 7y ago
Stop. There are many valid ways that a person can use to lose weight, but . . . "Eat as much as fills you up of everything else." . . . that sentence should never be a part of it.
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by Cougher 7y ago
Spoiler alert: He's dead.
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by Cougher 7y ago
Who's arguing against evolution? Humans evolved to use our brains to help us develop ways to prevent having to go without food for extended periods of time. "Not only are we deeply wired to function for long periods of time withou
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by Cougher 7y ago
I agree that outrunning a diet is something that outliers do, but has Gary Taubes found a way for his foundation to confirm his claims after it refuted them? There's little doubt that genetics and how your body handles insulin have inf

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