Today's blog...just some things I found interesting amusing...
On 30 Rock Thursday night, a few of the guys made up a religion (verdukianism). Kenneth and Tracy discuss religion when Kenneth buys them a bunch of pizza:
Kenneth: Tonight is the verdukian holiday of mouth pleasures. Misters Rossitano, Spurlock, and Lutz must have free sausage pizza followed by some gentle flossing performed by a blonde virgin.
Tracy: Your generosity is being taken advantage of!
K: What do you mean?
T: Verdukianism. It's fake. Those dudes made it up because they didn't want to do secret santa.
K: But they had all these rules and rituals
T: That's what religion is K-fed. Just a bunch of made up rules that manipulate people. Why don't Catholics eat meat on Fridays? I'll tell you why; because the Pope owns Long John Silvers.
K: Wait a minute, are you saying that other religions are made up by man too?
T: Oh Ken, we may have fallen into the intellectual deep end here, and if you try to grab onto me we'll both drown.
K: What if there's no God?
T: OK, time to go
K: *falls over*
Also from NBC Thursday night (This from Community, which is a spectacular show)
"To me religion is like Paul Rudd; I see the appeal and I would never take it away from anyone, but I would also never stand in line for it."
And then there's this from a song on the radio:
"I'm trying to find the words to describe this girl without being disrespectful"
What the hell is that? The lyric is said/rapped in a way that suggests it is actually supposed to be flattering to the girl he's singing about. Apparently the vocabulary is so stunted that he can't do it. His mom is ashamed I'm sure. It bothers me.
Then something else on the radio...a commercial for one of the male enhancement things says that it's "the breakthrough pharmaceutical companies don't want you to know about!" I find that weird. I know the pharmas have a bad name and all, but the people I've met who work for them really just want what's best for people. It's a race for sure to create the newest and best therapy with the fewest side effects, but nobody I've met in the research world would ever consider withholding/hiding a therapy that had been proven in any scientifically valid way. That's my experience. Maybe I'm biased since it's what I do for a living, but the idea that things are being withheld in a selfish quest for your money is a tab paranoid, IMHO.
Enough for today. Soon...Vegas trip!
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Mind you: that same commercial states that their product will make you both thicker and wider, so it might not be the best judge.
Also, I think the idea in that commercial is that you're not supposed to know about it because it's so cheap, and they want you to use their own drugs that cost more. As I said: not the best example either way.
But there is the issue with the pharmaceutical industry that therapies that might drastically improve the lives of, say, a thousand people with a deadly disease don't get developed, because they're too expensive. But another male enhancement drug? Now that's going to pay the bills!
That I can't disagree with. Proving efficacy is extremely difficult as it is when you run a research trial with thousands of participants; when that's your entire patient population it gets dicey.
I read somewhere that most up-and-coming cancer treatments get stuck in failed trials because the patient populations that would benefit are too small to provide enough willing trial participants. The trials are sitting there waiting for more people to get cancer so they can run the research to show that their treatment will be good for the next round of people who get the same cancer.
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