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Originally Posted by Riot
The writer of that op-ed piece is the infamous Betsey McCaughey, famous insurance company shill. The creator and initiator of the concept of "the government death panel will kill your grandma!" as an insurance company-GOP strategy argument.
Do a bit of google and watch her on any number of cable news shows the past month, then tell me what you think of her objectivity and accuracy regarding what she says about healthcare reform.
Oh - and read the real articles she cherry picks incomplete and taken-out-of context quotes from.
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is the chart that was in that article something he actually did use in lancet?
is this quote incorrect? "
Adolescents have received substantial education and parental care, investments that will be wasted without a complete life. Infants, by contrast, have not yet received these investments. . . . As the legal philosopher Ronald Dworkin argues, 'It is terrible when an infant dies, but worse, most people think, when a three-year-old dies and worse still when an adolescent does,' this argument is supported by empirical surveys." (thelancet.com, Jan. 31, 2009)
if the article presents his real quotes, and real ideas, then what does it matter who wrote it?