At 07:19 PM 05/01/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>A great example of the modern media can be found at:
>
>http://content.health.msn.com/content/article/1671.50629
>
>The method:
>
>1 - Find some trend you find personally disturbing.  Since small furry animals
>are cute, eating them is disturbing to today's media.
>
>2 - Look like you are presenting both sides, but be sure to include
>inconsequential statements by the side you find disturbing (by the way,
this is
>the most important method used by the media in political coverage).
>
>3 - Allow the points of the disturbing side to be countered by lengthier
>statements by the authorities backing your side.    BUT, never present ANY
>statements by the disturbing side, that counter obvious fallacies by your
side.
>(This is always found in media articles about low-carb or high-protein diets,
>where I have yet to find one factually correct statement by the
opposition, and
>yet I have never found any examination of these statements by the media.)
>
>4 - Lastly, be sure to cause the disturbing side to look ridiculous or
>non-sensical in some way, no matter how much you have to twist things to
do so.
>
>
>--
>Cheers,
>
>Ken
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        And you only have to follow the money trail. Who pays for these non
practicing doctors to come up with this BS against anything that might
jeopardize medicine's crumbling Empire?

Dave