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  1. Xref: sparky talk.politics.drugs:8212 talk.politics.medicine:654 sci.med:24303
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  3. From: drayer-rebecca@yale.edu (Rebecca Drayer)
  4. Newsgroups: talk.politics.drugs,talk.politics.medicine,sci.med
  5. Subject: Re: From _Scientific American_
  6. Date: 22 Jan 1993 15:08:37 -0500
  7. Organization: Yale University Science & Engineering, New Haven, CT 06520-2158
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  9. Message-ID: <1jpk85INN2a5@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU>
  10. References: <1jc3mdINN9mh@mirror.digex.com> <1993Jan19.020022.911160@locus.com> <1993Jan22.094510.14223@genie.slhs.udel.edu>
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  13. In article <1993Jan22.094510.14223@genie.slhs.udel.edu> starr@genie.slhs.udel.edu (Tim Starr) writes:
  14. >Yep.  I posted an article about the Fascist Death Authority's censorship on
  15. >notification of results of aspirin studies on heart disease from the Orange
  16. >County Register.  The suppliers of aspirin are banned from telling anyone
  17. >on their labels that their risk of death could be decrease by 40% if they took
  18. >some each day.  This adds about 20 grand more deaths to their body count.
  19.  
  20. Was there a reason for this action?  I mean, it doesn't seem conceivable
  21. that they would have done this completely arbitrarily.  I'm not defending
  22. the FDA, but on the other hand, I don't want to condemn it until I know
  23. all the facts.
  24.  
  25.  
  26. -- 
  27. Rebecca A. Drayer, EMT-A            |    drayer@minerva.cis.yale.edu
  28. Neurobiology major                  |    Computing Assistant
  29.                                     |    Silliman College, Yale University
  30.