Posts by 81stcolumn
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why the bloody hell couldn't us Brits cope with a light dusting of the white stuff?
I suspect Jafas wouldn't cope too well for the same reasons. Went I want a lagh I imagine what snow would do to Auckland transport....
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Thanks for the Ohrwurm - RB and a late happy Birthday. Ten years ago you could hear that chorus "everybody needs a bosom for a pillow" and of course that delightful guitar break.
FWIW - ZX81 bought in '82/82 who could resist something that lets you PEEK and POKE it ? However I should point out I had already used a Honeywell 61/60 and an RML 380z before then. Ahhh nostalgia.
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Surely govt by referendum = govt by Fairfax in NZ?
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There is no such thing as alternative medicine, there is medicine that works and medicine that doesn't. If it works, it incorporated in medicine. If it doesn't, its called quackery, and Alison Rowe has some for you to buy. Unlabelled.
Oh if only........
CAM (Complimentary and Alternative Medicine) is the terminology adopted by the Govt report.
If either Medicine or Science were capable of drawing such blinkered distinctions then I doubt very much if this debate would exist.
Placebos are Medicines discuss.......
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Well I guess I ought to out myself on this one - What bothers me is that the advisory from which current MACCAH guidelines are drawn, openly discusses integration of Alternative Medicine/Therapy with mainstream health. At the same time it acknowldges the difficulties and present problems associated with figuring out what is safe and what actually works. The risk is that New Zealand will end up paying for "Monkey Smeg" and stuff that works until we figure out the difference.
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Did any one see the article in New Scientist linking Obesity to global warming ?
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Awwww s**T one of the consequences of having script stopping software on my browser is preview doesn't work.......unedited nonsense warning.
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<qoute> So it is essentially about managing risk in a prudent manner. </quote>
Agreed
But why given the proposal of a ban for GM would the Greens opt for any form a regulation with respect to a sector that also suffers an extraordinary lack of evidence ? The growth with respect to Therapeutic Products and Medicines is not risk free and has far reaching consequences for health provision.
Perhaps I really am too stupid to get this but it seems to me that. In this case the green policy is putting the cart before the horse. Something they won't do in other areas.
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Mmmm I still can’t drag my thoughts away from the Green’s basic hypocrisy over this issue. The line for GM was don’t use until proven safe as far as I can gather. I’m with Bart on this; if the same rules were to be applied to Therapeutic Products and Medicines many would have to be taken off the shelves until proven safe. In the absence of an appropriate research/approval framework it might be some time before some remedies are publicly seen again in NZ. Drug companies and GM (neither of whom I particularly like BTW) have the right to cry foul on any inconsistencies suffered over this issue.
No I don't want to start a conventional vs. alternative argument here.
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Okay - Heres one for the paranoia crew. Unregulated supplements are amongst the things most likely to get a Kiwi athlete busted in drugs testing.