tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18542739.post114049874135598406..comments2024-01-05T09:33:41.964-05:00Comments on Dare Generation Diary: Justin Holmes doesn't need titles!Garret Overstreethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09591273708913985060noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18542739.post-1140584365811321282006-02-21T23:59:00.000-05:002006-02-21T23:59:00.000-05:00Justin, in my experience many people do indeed put...Justin, in my experience many people do indeed put a lot of blind faith in doctors and pharmaceuticals to provide quick fixes for their behaviorally and socially-mediated ailments. Moreover, I appreciate and agree with the vast majority of what you said. Your last sentence, however, gives me pause.<BR/><BR/>For instance, there is a considerable segment of the population that believes that vaccines are merely tools of social control or there to provide the big-bucks for big-pharma while drug companies make such a meagre profit on immunizations that most have gotten out of the business of producing or researching them entirely and several countries have seen outbreaks of formerly controlled infectious diseases because of lax immunization records. <BR/><BR/>Similarly, there are people that still believe that HIV does not in fact cause AIDS, that it does so exlusively in homosexual or injection drug using persons, or that it was created by the government to control certain undesirable populations.<BR/><BR/>When you use langauge like that in your last sentence, "The...bug, infection...for which this drug has been prescribed may not actually exist." I worry that people are hearing that they should be wary that physicians are foisting prescription drugs on unknowing patients who have been purposefully misdiagnosed as having an infectious disease. This, I think, is a dangerous message to send in our current climate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com