Comment Regarding int'l skepticism with American providers (Score 1) 20
Is it safe to say, even despite the NSA revelations by TheTrueHOOHA, that the Chinese may trust the Chinese government even less?
TFA was a bit sketchy on details, but it did seem to indicate her Facebooking had something to do with the mistrial, and eventual acquittal... whether or not this is factually accurate,
it's probably safe to say this was poor judgement on her part.
Sadly, your medical care is incentivized in the same fashion as an automotive repair: the more repairs that are necessary, the greater the final invoice.
This is not to suggest there are not a great many ethical physicians, but we would be fools to overlook the likelihood that some sociopaths have slithered into the profession.
Here's to hoping they don't find any oil there, given the earthquakes it's caused in OK.
FWIW, except for the trailer-home salesmen, people here find the annual tornado problem much more inconvenient than the increase in 1.0 to 3.0 Richter quakes.
I will take with the same pleasure as being carded at 40.
Well, I can't speak for the poster
That absolutely nobody ever confirmed a diagnosis of cancer tells me this was a fraud which was committed with the willing complicity of the media, her publisher, and everybody else who utterly failed to do anything other than take her on face value.
Maybe everyone didn't "know"
Just a media who wanted to show a story, and a bunch of people who lacked critical thinking skills who wanted to believe in miracles, or something which matched their existing world view.
When people make big claims about their magic healing cure which has no scientific evidence or study
Folks diagnosed with cancer are desperate people. Desperate people, sadly, just want to believe they can make every horrible boogeyman disease go away if they do the right thing, especially when receiving a grim outlook from conventional medical practitioners.
Fact checking, logic, and realistic thinking are displaced by the grasping of straws.
They warn that "because the genetic changes to embryos, known as germline modification, are heritable, they could have an unpredictable effect on future generations."
I guess they mean if the children don't inherit the disease, DrugCo's profits will fall.
Unless DrugCo's patent skills are Monsanto-like...
when the governors were so far behind the curve of technology that it caused physical pain to watch them at work.
Is a powerful Senator hell bent on false god belief any less harmful to the future prosperity of mankind than a 4th World Jihadi member of ISIS?
hours upon hours and then more hours of mind numbing boredom spontaneously broken up by a sensational robbery, kidnapping, or sublimation.
Since it occurred at MIT, the bastion of clever hacking, it's fairly likely Aaron never imagined his hacktivities would be treated criminally, let alone get to a zealous prosecutor. IIRC, the most egregious prior transgressions were charged with trespassing and little else.
Sure. He was ill equipped to handle the fallout of being made an example of. It probably never happened to him before. To be fair though, his response was as big an overreaction as that of the prosecutor.
"The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception a neccessity." - Oscar Wilde
