Posts by Russell Brown
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MEDIA CYNICISM - A Case Study, in reply to Alfie,
I expect Russell will nix it before long.
Indeed. Sorry for the delay!
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Speaker: Ann's story: helping doctors…, in reply to mpledger,
Not down to GP level but to Min of Health level.
So not even down to specialist level – even for Sativex, which is MedSafe-approved.
Probably the best news here is the undertaking to compile a ist of non-pharmaceutical-grade products that can easily be approved. Finally!
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Electric Bazza reviewed my bike! (Well, another Pacer.)
And he agrees it's awesome!
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It looks like GPs will soon be able to prescribe approved medical cannabis products without applying for ministerial approval each time.
It's interesting that the story mentions not only Sativex (MedSafe-approved) but also the functionally identical (but much cheaper) Tilray product, which isn't approved. I'm not sure whether that's significant.
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Hard News: Burning down the house to…, in reply to Katharine Moody,
I was a bit more optimistic about his discussion/reporting of his meeting with big pharma
I was going on this:
A lot happened in the 2016 campaign, but one of the things Donald Trump did to win the election was shift to the left on a number of key issues — promising to avoid cuts in Social Security and Medicare benefits and adopting a longstanding Democratic pledge to let Medicare negotiate bulk discounts in the price it pays for prescription drugs.
Today, after a meeting with pharmaceutical industry lobbyists and executives, he abandoned that pledge, referring to an idea he supported as recently as three weeks ago as a form of “price fixing” that would hurt “smaller, younger companies.” Instead of getting tough, Trump’s new plan is that he’s “going to be lowering taxes” and “getting rid of regulations.”
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Hard News: Burning down the house to…, in reply to Zach Bagnall,
A lot of people firmly believe that small government is best government, and the smaller the better. When they see Trump burning it all down, they anticipate a libertarian utopia, not apocalypse.
Yes. But then they happily wave through the tens of billions to be wasted on The Wall.
That GPG survey I linked to is interesting. It also found Trump voters:
• Want to increase spending on immigration enforcement, the military, homeland security, infrastructure and Social Security;
• Believe spending levels should be maintained for internet and wireless networks, oil and gas exploration, scientific and medical research, environmental protection and conservation, Medicare and Medicaid, education, renewable energy and farm subsidies and, to a smaller degree, health care;
• Want to decrease spending in only two areas: foreign aid and welfare.Trump is going to do the opposite of most of that. And yet the feeble conservative thinkers will keep insisting that that he's only doing what his voters want.
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This post is based on a long Facebook comment (I thought I might as well get something out of the exercise) and doesn't cover all the shitty arguments, omissions and logical fallacies packed into Davidson's columns. Feel free to examine the rest of them.
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Thank you, Hilary. I love all these poems (and the way you have framed them), but this one particularly made me me smile:
peace group meeting
the two of them
still sniping
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If it tastes fine, it is fine.
I remain concerned about your use of a fork with a non-stick pan however.
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Hard News: More medical cannabis…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
The Drugs (testing gear) don’t work!
That'll be the police using "wet chemistry" reagent testing,, which is notoriously subjective (police don't have the fancy new mobile spectroscopy gear that Customs does).
I can almost forgive them, given that he had the creatine in his pockets in point bags.
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