corporate hype and medicine

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

At 01:28 PM 6/21/01 -0700, joanna b wrote:
>The kind of basic research that resulted in the discovery antibiotics and 
>vaccines has declined considerably. In the US, we live with 
>corporate/profite driven medical "research" and doctors that have five 
>minutes of their time to give you--not because they're evil but because of 
>the insurance racket. That's about as much time as it took me to write this 
>paragraph.

These are well-known facts.  However, they do not justify recourse to
quackery.

wojtek