ms. satel's professional affiliation gives me pause about the fairness of her op-ed.

"ms. satel's professional affiliation gives me pause about the fairness of her op-ed."

Indeed.

Let's think about it.

A peer reviewed Paper in the Lancet by a scientific research group.

OR

The views of a psychiatrist who works for the AEI
as written for a newspaper.

I can't see why there's even a smidgen of doubt about Ms Satels views.

“I can't see why there's even a smidgen of doubt about Ms Satels views.”

That’s right. One wonders if the poster fdl might be a reporter for the New York times or Washington Post. This is how they often deal with conservative commentators.

Much of the AIDS fight is hindered by the high illiteracy rate of the Third world. Even in the United States, perhaps the largest numbers of these victims are marginally to functionally illiterate. Can we ever eliminate AIDS without also eliminating illiteracy? I don’t think so.

That's what makes the AEI so wonderful, they have "fellows" who are usually complete idiots. This is extremely transparent whenever they try to write an op-ed on something technical (like voting machines, or drugs) -- where its much harder to hide incompetent idealogical bias. This story really isn't that amazing -- all the hard work in drug development is in R&D -- finding the chemicals that work. Once you know the chemicals, anyone can produce them for peanuts. The manufacturing processes are all standardized, generics are 99.99% of the time just as effective as the brand-name.

At least Satel has an MD from somehwere (I'd wonder where, given her arguments). A few weeks ago some idiot from the AEI with a Phd in ECONOMICS was arguing that Diebold machines are safe -- and if you have no background in cs or stats you might be stupid enough to believe him. Of course if you took a single class in either subject in college, it was pretty clear he was full of it. That and its been documented elsewhere, b y people hwo know what they tare talkinga bout like, like in transactions oft he IEEE.

Whenever I see them publish pure crap in somethingl ike medicine or cs (two fields I know quite a bit about), it makes me pretty sure they are probably talking straight out of their ass when they publish something on anything.

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