[Magdalen] [Magdale

[Jay Weigel]

I was 9 when I had measles. I was as sick as I've ever been before or
since. I might wish that on my very worst enemy, but never on my kids or
anyone I love.

On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 8:45 AM ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:

> Also human beings (westerners, at least) seem to have a great need to
> assign blame.
> It's a sort of slide to the left from Reason, with misapplication of
> scientific thought.
> Very Puritanical, if you think about it.
> It makes us judgmental and litigious and just gets in the way.
>
> I've talked with patients who *insist* that doctors really know how to cure
> cancer
> but only make the magical treatment available to a few friends and "elites"
> (for fear they'll do themselves out of their jobs and careers).
>
> I've said this before, but I remember having measles.
> I was seven, I think.
> It was awful.
> -M
>
>
>
> On Friday, May 31, 2019, Don <thedonboyd at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>
> > "We just don't know" is hard to accept, and it isn't surprising that
> > absent certainty about causes people cling to hypotheses about cause that
> > are unproven or disproven.  At best, autism "treatment" addresses
> > behavioral manifestations but not the poorly understood autism spectrum
> > disorders themselves.
> >
> >
>