[lbo-talk] putting quackery to the test

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Tue Aug 8 15:15:23 PDT 2006


Colin Brace:


> somewhere that critiqued a predominantly "high-tech" approach to
> public health problems.

[WS:] It is easy to sit in air-conditioned office in New York or Amsterdam and "critique predominantly 'high-tech' approach to public health problem. If on the other hand, one lives in countries like, say, Ethiopia where people are mostly free of the "evils" of high tech medicine, one takes a different view. If I were to choose between being a limbless (due to untreated leprosy) beggar on the streets of Addis and an overmedicated New Yorker, thank you, but I'll keep my high-tech medicine.

Wojtek



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