10-25-2009, 11:23 PM
Was/Isn't all the hoo-ha sort of predictable?
Life's instant now. Given that, it's difficult not to think everybody knows everything all the time We've spent billions educating a public to take responsibility for their health - ads on tv, in magazines, newspapers, all hawking this or that medication for this or that health issue - and we're surprised when they do?
Right or wrong, the current population doesn't see things the way folks did back in the days of the Salk vaccine, though the backlash seems similar. Are the fears founded? Who knows? Some forums members must remember the thalidomide horror when they were kids.
For better or for worse, all of this is expectable, no?
It's one thing to wind folks up to go looking for solutions; it's quite another preventing them from jumping to the wrong ones.
Life's instant now. Given that, it's difficult not to think everybody knows everything all the time We've spent billions educating a public to take responsibility for their health - ads on tv, in magazines, newspapers, all hawking this or that medication for this or that health issue - and we're surprised when they do?
Right or wrong, the current population doesn't see things the way folks did back in the days of the Salk vaccine, though the backlash seems similar. Are the fears founded? Who knows? Some forums members must remember the thalidomide horror when they were kids.
For better or for worse, all of this is expectable, no?
It's one thing to wind folks up to go looking for solutions; it's quite another preventing them from jumping to the wrong ones.