tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post8800258785513411205..comments2024-03-28T01:27:23.408-04:00Comments on Health Care Renewal: Attacking "Side Effects" with Logical FallaciesRoy M. Poses MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00497209843184497847noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-59849159687058862762008-07-24T11:37:00.000-04:002008-07-24T11:37:00.000-04:00Sorry I didn't find your response to this review s...Sorry I didn't find your response to this review sooner. Here's how I put it in a letter to the editor which I also attempted to post on the Opinion Journal forum on line but it was not approved: <BR/>Dear Sir,<BR/>Mr. Herrmann accuses Alison Bass of being biased and only presenting the “plaintiff’s side” but Hermann himself summarizes the history of Prozac not only in a biased fashion but alsoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-2089315388153503952008-07-21T12:16:00.000-04:002008-07-21T12:16:00.000-04:00An amazing post. Influential people lacking medic...An amazing post. Influential people lacking medical experience and ability to craft a rational argument on pressing scientific and social issues abound today, to the detriment of us all. <BR/><BR/>I wonder if Mr. Herrmann's legal briefs on other matters are as replete with fundamental logical errors. (If not, it raises the issue that the logical errors in the WSJ op ed could have been InformaticsMDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994321680366572701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-40678254626741450052008-07-21T01:29:00.000-04:002008-07-21T01:29:00.000-04:00Some treatments are available but for many it is a...Some treatments are available but for many it is a case of management rather than cure.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-80123291986914489322008-07-19T13:46:00.000-04:002008-07-19T13:46:00.000-04:00Typo: The web address for Medpundit is medpundit.b...Typo: The web address for Medpundit is medpundit.blogspot.com.<BR/><BR/>Steve LucasAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-39394463818277027372008-07-19T08:31:00.000-04:002008-07-19T08:31:00.000-04:00Before Tim Russert. Before the Vytorin debacle. Be...Before Tim Russert. Before the Vytorin debacle. Before the questions of Lipitor marketing. Medpundit in an April 17, 2005, piece (medoundit.blogspot.com) questioned the use of statins on a wide basis. "Perspective: Often, in promoting a new treatment or intervention, doctors will bandy about the term "number needed to treat." <BR/><BR/>Sydney's conclusion was, that while promoting the positive, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-48209762937917445692008-07-18T20:05:00.000-04:002008-07-18T20:05:00.000-04:00For background to the Jureidini et al paper on Stu...For background to the Jureidini et al paper on Study 329: http://healthyskepticism.org/documents/PaxilStudy329.phpAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com