Re: [Marxism] Elsevier created fake peer-reviewed journal for Merck,

[Shane Mage <shmage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 10, 2009, at 6:46 AM, sabocat59@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Since many (not all) medical doctors are just shills for the  
> pharmaceutical industry anyway, the fact that Merck paid Elsevier to  
> create yet another scientistic marketing tool to peddle its wares is  
> not surprising.
>
> The drug salesmen probably use it for handouts when they make their  
> regular rounds to pitch the newest snake oil.
>
> Back in the 19th century the cure-all tonic served a similar  
> purpose. Its distinct advantage over the current crop is that more  
> often than not it contained opium. So even if it did not work it you  
> could at least get high.


Ah, but it *did* work--the expectation of results plus the opium- 
induced feeling of relief is itself genuinely therapeutic.  As  
Gurdjieff** wrote, "And now listen to what that kind pharmacist there  
said to me further...'all that is required of any remedy is that it  
should be known to be a good one'."

Shane Mage

> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos

**Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson, Chapter XXXI (The Sixth and Last  
Sojourn of Beelzebub on the Planet Earth)

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