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Update 2007-08-22

International News
The July 2007 issue is a review by David P. Ellis of John Watkins’ new book Healing schizophrenia: using medication wisely.
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AdWatch
The August 2007 issue was written in response to a subscriber’s comments regarding the March 2007 AdWatch about GlaxoSmithKline’s advertising of rosiglitazone (Avandia) in Australia.
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Healthy Skepticism founder will tour Europe, Nth America and New Zealand in 2008
Peter Mansfield will visit Europe, Nth America and New Zealand sometime around April, May or June 2008. If you would like him to visit you please contact him.

 

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Far too large a section of the treatment of disease is to-day controlled by the big manufacturing pharmacists, who have enslaved us in a plausible pseudo-science...
The blind faith which some men have in medicines illustrates too often the greatest of all human capacities - the capacity for self deception...
Some one will say, Is this all your science has to tell us? Is this the outcome of decades of good clinical work, of patient study of the disease, of anxious trial in such good faith of so many drugs? Give us back the childlike trust of the fathers in antimony and in the lancet rather than this cold nihilism. Not at all! Let us accept the truth, however unpleasant it may be, and with the death rate staring us in the face, let us not be deceived with vain fancies...
we need a stern, iconoclastic spirit which leads, not to nihilism, but to an active skepticism - not the passive skepticism, born of despair, but the active skepticism born of a knowledge that recognizes its limitations and knows full well that only in this attitude of mind can true progress be made.
- William Osler 1909