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  • Reply to: Lilly's Art of Ignoring Drug's Diabetes Risk   16 years 1 month ago

    If they patient gained weight it will be blamed on that and no one will think twice. This society #1 never questions that weight gain is anything but the "fault" of the individual, #2 never looks beyond the scarlet O of obesity. Weight gain, as you said, presents an increased risk. That means in any population, when weight gain shows up, diabetes goes up. But that in itself does not prove causation. It could be there is something that causes both weight gain and metabolic change. Weight gain could be a marker rather than and underlying cause. But try tell that to sheeple! This whole hyped up obesity epidemic and the stigma surrounding it serves the power-elite in so many ways. Being a scapegoat for any and all health problems is just one of them. But, as I said, try telling that to sheeple!

  • Reply to: Who Is Doing Real Journalism?   16 years 1 month ago

    What about ProPublica?

  • Reply to: Private Spooks Court Journalists   16 years 2 months ago

    "Journalists covering the U.S. Supreme Court today reported a disturbing confrontation with a seemingly deranged U.S. Army private...."

  • Reply to: Olympics Ideals Prove as Fragile as China   16 years 2 months ago

    CITIUS, ALTIUS, FORTIUS

    which translates roughly as

    GLITZIER, DRUGGIER, PRICIER

    After Beijing, I think it'll be time to give the Olympics another 1,500-year timeout.

  • Reply to: Olympics Ideals Prove as Fragile as China   16 years 2 months ago

    According to the [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/01/sports/olympics/01censor.html New York Times], journalists in Beijing are now able to access some previously blocked websites:

    Web sites for Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Radio Free Asia and the Chinese language service of the BBC — all of which had previously been blocked — could be viewed at the Olympic Village. Although their availability was inconsistent, the pages could also be read in other parts of Beijing. Other sites, however, including those that discuss Tibet, Chinese dissidents and the 1989 demonstrations at Tiananmen Square, remained blocked.

    Olympics officials also claimed not to have OK'd web censorship:

    Giselle Davies, a spokeswoman for the organizing committee, said a misunderstanding had led to the contradictory versions of events, but she stressed that Olympic organizers have always been adamant about unfettered Internet access for the 20,000 foreign journalists who will be covering the athletic competition.

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