The reveries of Joseph P. Wagner
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The reveries of Joseph P. Wagner
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Raising the debt ceiling is kind of like increasing blood alcohol levels to solve drunk driving.
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(Source: twitter.com)
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At the time, he recalled, his doctor clients were giving him a lot of grief over patients who were “flipping out” over the weight gain associated with the drug, along with the diabetes. “We were instructed to downplay side effects and focus on the efficacy of drug…to recommend the patient drink a glass a water before taking a pill before the meal and then after the meal in hopes the stomach would expand” and provide an easy way out of this obstacle to increased sales. When docs complained, he recalled, “I told them, ‘Our drug is state of the art. What’s more important? You want them to get better or do you want them to stay the same—a thin psychotic patient or a fat stable patient.’”
Just take your meds.
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“This is awful. It plays, so precisely that it might have been scripted, into the most paranoid conspiracy theories about vaccines: that they are pointless, poisonous, covert shields for nefarious government agendas meant to do children harm.”
