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  • #46
    Are you saying that only high-level bureaucrats are qualified?
    I'm saying that typically surgeon generals have had previous experience at the national level at running a bureaucracy.

    She has some experience in the state of Mississippi, but Mississippi isn't exactly a large state.
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    • #47
      Yes, and Alaska is a microcosm of America.
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      • #48
        As far as I know, the surgeon general is a media position. Her bedside manner is hugely more important than any other real qualifications that she has.
        I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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        • #49
          Originally posted by Dr Strangelove View Post
          No my point is the FDA could stand to re-think its priorities. Twenty-five percent of American adults are morbidly obese. Denying them a medication that might halve their numbers just to protect a few potheads from going into withdrawal when taking the drug seems to me to be a serious error in priorities.. It would be better to approve the drug and stick a warning label on it.
          I'm curious. Why didn't they control for weed smokers? Was the sponsor of the study also the manufacturer?
          I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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          • #50
            Yes, and Alaska is a microcosm of America.
            Sauce for the goose.
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