Sent Items
In response to my last Sent Items entry, I received email suggesting that I may not have read towards the end of the article citing Dr. Marcia Angell, former Editor-in-Chief of The New England Journal of Medicine, and that in a dispute between her views and mine, my emailer would have to side with her. So, I reply: Angell is a doctor, and now, a writer. She actually did good work when she wrote a book exposing what a complete and utter fraud the breast-implant fiasco was, from soup to nuts. It was about nothing other than putting a few billion into the pockets of trial lawyers, á la John Edwards. That book was: Science on Trial: The Clash of Medical Evidence and the Law in the Breast Implant Case. There, Dr. Angell was in her element, arguing about what she's knowledgeable about--science and the immutable logical process we undergo to determine scientific truth (to which medicine pertains). Juries don't decide scientific truth, and she was perfectly suited to make this claim. Now she's on my turf, business and economics, and it's clear she's out of her element. You're welcome to bank on anything you like, but if money or...