I want to make few comments on excellent article that Beowulf posted in first post of this topic.
That does make me cringe for a minute... No wonder why Europe and Asia are working to develop their own economic 'axis'. According to China INC and other new economic books that I read, they will pull their economy out of America once their economic system is in alpha stage. To my understanding that once they did, America's economy will crash down at big time... and America more likely will roll back to Great Depression era. No... it will be Greater Depression. After all, compare against Euro (Europe current) value, our dollar value is pathetic.
I am not surprised. Bush Jr & Sr Admin is deaf to the voice of science for years. That is indeed sad. Science is one of my favorite subjects and popular subject for freethinkers to explore and improve. There are five new news/articles concerning about neglection of science among in Bush Admin/Congress in this month.
Oh gosh. DEFINITELY! My professor showed me the subscription list plus sources and I cannot believe how many scientific literatures are in Europe... it is heaven-like for freethinkers scientists and medical professions.
Bush Admin once again peed on (or rather, dumbed-down) National Science Foundation in one or two months ago.
Actually, much... much more than that. It is called, "iatrogenic damage". Let us look at JAMA's study on this iatrogenic damage in America:
12,000 deaths per year from unnecessary surgery(2)
7,000 deaths per year from medication errors in hospitals(3)
20,000 deaths per year from other errors in hospitals(4)
80,000 deaths per year from nosoconmial infections in hospitals(4)
106,000 deaths per year from nonerror, adverse effects of medications(5)
That's 225,000 deaths per year from iatrogenic causes, which constitutes the third leading cause of death in the U.S. after deaths from heart disease and cancer," outlined Starfield.(1). These estimates of death due to error are lower than those in a recent Institutes of Medicine report, and if the higher estimates are used, the deaths due to iatrogenic causes would range from 230,000 to 284,000.
Source: http://www.crahealth.org/news/2002-10-peer_review.htm
And yet there is no dramatic news about it. No uproar. No Congress interference. Get the bigger picture, yet? Now Congress plan or already passed the bill to protect the hospitals/conventional doctors from sues. I have to bid a fat good luck to vicitms who suffered or will suffer by these clumsy surgeons, stressed double-shift nurses, etc etc..
And yet they dare to say that they do have the morals... what a JOKE.
That got me real mad... I would love to spew the profanities about that but let's move on to other quote.
That's exactly what my mother's good friend who is a cop said to me several weeks ago. He shared the concerns with me about lack of federal aids to local police agencies. He said that he wouldn't be surprised if crime rate will be soar in next few years. It is already happen... In Minn, there was a school shooting which injured more than 15 students.
That is really sad because certain party/groups kept pointing the fingers at abortions but with that facts/evidences, they made big fools out of themselves once again.
I believe I'm done with these points I made... Have fun everyone.
Swede, you provided the excellent points. Good job!
