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Date: | Tue, 2 Mar 1999 17:17:08 +0000 |
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Rob asks
"then why the story on Hepatitis B vaccine which
did nothing for the public good and as far as I can see did
nothing for the internationals."
My admittedly-unreconstructed student radical view is that feeding the
public rubbish information can do the internationals a lot of good,
indirectly. What good does a questioning, well-informed knowledgeable
public do for Big Bucks?
Now, we could, if we wanted, wearing our unresconstructed student radical
hats and waving those banners well-aloft, bring this back to breastfeeding
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I have a colleague who muses, aloud, that for some business interests, a
*less-than-optimally intelligent* public could be quite a good thing. Now,
in a democracy where there are checks and balances preventing mass brain
surgery, what might you have to do, in infancy, to ensure this
less-than-optimally intelligent public.....hmmmmm? Only one guess allowed.
Banner put away in dusty cupboard.
Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne
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