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- From: geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: 60 Minutes-Heart Disease & The French
- Message-ID: <15830@pitt.UUCP>
- Date: 26 Jul 92 22:20:33 GMT
- References: <1992Jul23.123427.28002@pixel.kodak.com> <1992Jul23.134416.18902@news.columbia.edu> <1992Jul23.220715.17142@pixel.kodak.com>
- Sender: news@cs.pitt.edu
- Organization: Decision Systems Laboratory, Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.
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- In article <1992Jul23.220715.17142@pixel.kodak.com> young@serum.kodak.com writes:
- >
- > "Chances are good that if you watched '60 Minutes' last November 3,
- > you came away feeling that MSG is bad for you. And if you watched
- > on November 17, odds are high you reached the conclusion that red
- > wine is good for you, good enough even for teetotalers to consider
- > adding some to their diets. Odds are also high that you watched --
- > or at least heard about -- the two broadcasts. An average of 30
- > million viewers tune in each week. That's why it's particularly
- > unfortunate that the popular television show presented such strongly
- > one-sided, unbalanced stories on the two subjects."
- >
- They did even worse on the "amalgam filling scare". Showing someone
- who was in a wheelchair from multiple sclerosis who danced the next
- night after having her amalgam fillings drilled out did a horrible
- disservice and caused many MS patients great expense and suffering
- for naught.
-
- As far as I am concerned, 60 minutes, and most other so-called
- investigative reporting on TV are pure crap. Stick to Consumer
- Reports.
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- Gordon Banks N3JXP | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and
- geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon."
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