Tim Cook wrote:
> somebody wrote:
>> "alphaQuad" <alp### [at] earthlinknet> wrote in message
>>
>>> Find out what the shooter had been given by the AMA Quacks.
>>> I am certain that you will find he was given fluorides or sulfides in
>> place of
>>> real medicine.
>>
>> OK, you win the cake for coming up with the most "original" scapegoat, in
>> the inevitable goat safari that automatically ensues any and all such
>> incidents. I sure thought something involving lambda calculus would be 
>> named
>> before AMA...
> 
> Another thing I wonder...all these violent acts done by people 
> supposedly on medication, what percentage of people on that medication 
> do they represent?  How many people would be doing violent acts if 
> *nobody* were on those medications?
> 
> To wit:
> 
> Suppose 5 of 500,000 people on Prozac end up going on shooting rampages.
> Suppose those 5 are the only incidents in a 10-year period, so one could 
> blame Prozac as being a cause.
> But!  Suppose if none of those 500,000 people were on Prozac?  Would 
> there be 50 rampages in the same time period?  More?
> 
> It's like taser-related deaths vs. potential gun-related deaths were 
> tasers not in use.  If there are more non-fatal taser uses than likely 
> fatal gun uses, you go with the taser, even if you get a few deaths.
> 
We used to have a cartoon in the department stating that 19% of driving 
accidents happened while being drunk and implying that there is a simple 
way to reduce the number of accidents by 81%

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