Change!
Not looking all that changie so far.
We do have Sanjay Gupta – an actual Doctor – as Surgeon General. That is change I’ve been hoping for, I guess. To me, it’s a good pick. Prof Walker seems underwhelmed, though he doesn’t say why. Oh well, you can’t please everybody.
Video Stolen From: Insta-P
Politics / Law Stuff | Sonicfrog January 15, 2009
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By Jeff Alberts, January 15, 2009 @ 5:58 pm
I don’t have much of an opinion on Gupta. I have noticed than some of his CNN segments were sponsored by that bogus Head-On homeopathic crap. Don’t know hif he had any say in it, but as a doctor I wouldn’t want to be associated with it.
By Johnny, January 15, 2009 @ 7:16 pm
As a general rule, I’m leery of any medical “expert” who spends a lot of time in the public light as a celebrity. Dr. Gupta is boarding on that leeryism (sure it’s a word) right now for me. But we’ll see. It could be much worse and it probably will shake things up a bit.
By sonicfrog, January 15, 2009 @ 10:18 pm
Actually, he has no control over the advertising on the spot – that’s all prearranged by the network.
Johnny, I’ve seen a number of his spots, and he seems OK to me. Would you be negative of Dean Edel? He’s a reformed hippie, and there are a number of his policy positions that I would disagree with. That said, he is the one person who rail against the stupidity of bottled water, the phoniness of the supplement industry, and exposed the fraud in lawyer driven pseudo science such as the anti-IUD and anti-breast implant movements. In the late 1980’s, PETA was fostering a movement to replace ALL animal testing of new drugs with computer models. Edel was the only one who I had ever heard who emphatically explained that CM’s wouldn’t work because, as much as we know about chemical physics and the human body, we still can’t predict how the body will interact with the drug, side effects or adverse reactions, potentially deadly, when combined with other drugs. CM’s only operate on known physical interactions, and can’t predict unknowns. That is why they don’t issue new drugs if they work in test-tube trials. I also apply this philosophy to computer generated climate models also. He, more than any other, put me on the path to becoming a skeptic of alarmist climate science.
By Jeff Alberts, January 16, 2009 @ 5:35 pm
I kind of doubt he has no control over the advertising. He’s obviously an important person for CNN. If he said something, I’m sure they’d change it. I mean, Head-on? Come on.
By sonicfrog, January 16, 2009 @ 9:19 pm
No he doesn’t have any control over it. He is a small cog in the wheel in the new side of the corporation, and has NO influence over the advertising dept. Plus, most, if not all, of the adverts you see are placed at the regional or local level by your local cable company.