Do they have these 'hearings' all the time so they can pretend they're doing something? Wag their fingers at someone and pick up their big fat over paid checks at the end of the day. While business as usual continues unimpeded. Heck of a job assholes.

Follow the money- doctor blogs about waco parents and defends the pharma vaccine industry. No suprise, except why this shit is at C&L.

If, during my Engineering Career I had EVER gone so far over-budget as some of the defense contractors do I would not only have lost my job, but would have had my name ruined in the Engineering field. Plus I would have been scorned as an Enginerror.

The fact that the government has so many projects over budget by billions says a lot. Bush ran all of his past business endeavors into the ground and now has run the American Government into the ground.

gueuzeman @ 3:

Follow the money- doctor blogs about waco parents and defends the pharma vaccine industry. No suprise, except why this shit is at C&L.

I'm not going to deny that the system of R&D, complete with peer review and FDA approval is incorruptable, but it's hard to deny the effectof vaccines on epidemic viruses. I read that link with an eye open for denials that childhood vaccines can be linked to autism, but the denials are absent. The article is ultimately saying that it's more important to guard society against these epidemic diseases than to be concerned about the links of those vaccines to autism.

And, sure the topic belongs here. There's that bit in the Preamble to the Constitution, "...provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and...". It's an important discussion.

Andy K Jong Il @ 7:

gueuzeman @ 3:

Follow the money- doctor blogs about waco parents and defends the pharma vaccine industry. No suprise, except why this shit is at C&L.

I'm not going to deny that the system of R&D, complete with peer review and FDA approval is incorruptable, but it's hard to deny the effectof vaccines on epidemic viruses. I read that link with an eye open for denials that childhood vaccines can be linked to autism, but the denials are absent. The article is ultimately saying that it's more important to guard society against these epidemic diseases than to be concerned about the links of those vaccines to autism.

And, sure the topic belongs here. There's that bit in the Preamble to the Constitution, "...provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and...". It's an important discussion.

I'll second what Andy says and add that one cannot and should not ignore the numbers presented on the link. Since when did doctors become evil capitalists? A person able to make it as a doctor could make a hell of a lot more money doing something else without the huge investment of time and money for med school; so one should wonder, then, what motivates someone to become a doctor. Most docs I know are in it to promote the general welfare. Sure, they aren't inerrant, but to dismiss their expertise because they disagree with this one friend you know or with a prominent celebrity is utter foolishness.

Somehow the use of the term "absurdity" in connection with any aspect of the Gitmo thing is painful to me. It is way up there with the biggest tragedies perpetrated by humans in all history, and we're responsible for it. And our views on the subject are not "absurd" in their failure to solve it: THEY ARE DISGRACEFUL. In case I'm being too oblique, here, having only views on something that should have been halted, by any and all means humanly possible, immediately upon discovery, is shockingly unacceptable.