Here’s the text of the commercial: You know when you feel the weight of sadness. You may feel exhausted, hopeless, and anxious. Whatever you do, you feel lonely and don’t enjoy the things you once loved. [Symptoms persist every day for at least two weeks.] Things just don’t feel like they used to. These are …
Monthly Archives: July 2008
Gatekeepers and drugs
Ed Silverman at Pharmalot has pointed out some interesting research by the Keller Fay Group market research firm indicating that (surprise!) individual drug consumers are more likely to listen to the recommendations of friends and family than to their physicians or psychiatrists when it comes to making choices about what drugs to consume. According to …
It’s all political
At least, if that means anything any more. If everything’s political, nothing is. Except that’s wrong. “Politics” is not a uniform field. It is a set of always uneven relations, unable to be reduced to a mere adjective. Something can not be “more” or “less” political, just as something can not be “more” or “less” …
