Two words can ruin the Neocon pretension to superior intellect forever more.

"Douglas Feith".

That sounds like a description of a bunch of bankers/stock brokers.

There can only be one!
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Maybe. But I think it's possible. We never come up with cures anymore, we only come up with treatments, which benfits drug companies. Hell the FDA and pharma cos have been trying to shut down vitamin and herbal companies for years, because it cuts into their profit margin.

And I have to say, (another thought here), how can anyone say anything with a straight face against marijuana or other illegal drugs, when all we have on TV is commercials from pharmaceutical companies promoting (pushing) drugs? They now make drugs to make other drugs more efficient. It is a racket, and a worse racket than the illegal drug trade, IMHO.

The only "cures" we have ever come up with are vaccinations and bacteriophages (pennicillin, etc...IOW, antibiotics).

New antibiotics are developed every year.

You just made Nancy Reagan cry. :sniff:

So what does that say about Bobby Jindal? That he is an inspiration for antibiotics or the reason antibiotics are necessary?

Yes.

We cured polio. Or maybe eradicated is a better word, at least in this country. And TB, although it is on the rise again. Leprosy. Small Pox. Should I continue? We don't even have a vaccine or cure for herpes.

And bacteria are becoming more resistant to all our antibiotics. Even syphilis and gonorrhea are on the rise again, and the new strains are very resistant to antibiotics, probably because ranchers and chicken farmers put them in the food supply, and doctor's write prescriptions for them when they shouldn't. But that is another topic.

Huh? Which is it? We do or don't?

We used to. We don't anymore. Which is why I said, it is more profitable for pharmaceutical cos to treat rather than cure, and why they no longer find cures, but treatments.

It ain't gone til it's dead.

So far, we've wiped out smallpox. That's it. Leprosy is still around, though recent work with the old boogeyman drug Thalidomide is showing real promise in treatment.

TB is back. Not coming back...back. You can thank both parties hamstringing the INS for that one.

You get my point though, right? If we could eradicate a disease in THIS country, we should have been able to eradicate it in the world. And, we aren't eradicating anything anymore.

An exception: malaria.

A discussions about diseases should always differentiate between bacteria, virus, and Jindal.

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