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In reply to the discussion: Half Of Americans Believe In Medical Conspiracy Theories [View all]Zorra
(27,670 posts)19. lol! Nice try. My source, compared to your source ~
My source:
Your source?
http://www.monsanto.com/pages/default.aspx
Yeh, I know there's a whole lot of woo out there, and much of it comes from silly folk superstitions. A little common sense can usually separate the wheat from the chaff
But far more woo comes from the Third Way, and Corporate HQ, when they need to sell the public on their products. At one time, cigarettes were "physician tested and approved", and marijuana had no medicinal value. It was "science", damn it! Corporate HQ has the money and motive to sell their woo through by hiring "experts" to back their propaganda for profit.
Russell Korobkin is the Richard C. Maxwell Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law, where he teaches Contracts, Negotiation, and Health Care Law. Prior to joining the UCLA faculty in 2001, he held appointments at the University of Illinois College of Law and the University of Illinois Institute of Government and Public Affairs. He has taught as a full-time visiting professor at Harvard Law School (2007) and the University of Texas School of Law (1999-2000), and has taught short courses at the University of Arizona, the University of Houston, the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Pepperdine University, and Vanderbilt University. He is a regular visiting professor at the German Graduate School of Business and Law in Heilbronn, Germany (Negotiation) and La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia (Contracts). Prior to entering law teaching, Professor Korobkin graduated from Stanford University and Stanford Law School, clerked for the Honorable James L. Buckley of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and worked as an associate at the law firm of Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C.
Professor Korobkin is the author of the leading negotiation textbook, Negotiation Theory and Strategy, the contracts casebook, K: A Common Law Approach to Contracts, both published by Wolters Kluwer, and Stem Cell Century: Law and Policy for a Breakthrough Technology, published by Yale University Press. He has also published more than 50 law journal articles in the fields of behavioral law and economics, negotiation and alternative dispute resolution, contract law, the health care law and stem cell research, including Law and Behavioral Science: Removing the Rationality Assumption from Law and Economics, which is currently the most cited law review article published in the 21st Century. Most of his published articles, along with working papers, can be downloaded from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) at http://ssrn.com/author=45482.
Contact Information
UCLA School of Law
385 Charles E. Young Dr. East
Los Angeles, CA, 90095
korobkin@law.ucla.edu
Professor Korobkin is the author of the leading negotiation textbook, Negotiation Theory and Strategy, the contracts casebook, K: A Common Law Approach to Contracts, both published by Wolters Kluwer, and Stem Cell Century: Law and Policy for a Breakthrough Technology, published by Yale University Press. He has also published more than 50 law journal articles in the fields of behavioral law and economics, negotiation and alternative dispute resolution, contract law, the health care law and stem cell research, including Law and Behavioral Science: Removing the Rationality Assumption from Law and Economics, which is currently the most cited law review article published in the 21st Century. Most of his published articles, along with working papers, can be downloaded from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) at http://ssrn.com/author=45482.
Contact Information
UCLA School of Law
385 Charles E. Young Dr. East
Los Angeles, CA, 90095
korobkin@law.ucla.edu
Your source?
http://www.monsanto.com/pages/default.aspx
Yeh, I know there's a whole lot of woo out there, and much of it comes from silly folk superstitions. A little common sense can usually separate the wheat from the chaff
But far more woo comes from the Third Way, and Corporate HQ, when they need to sell the public on their products. At one time, cigarettes were "physician tested and approved", and marijuana had no medicinal value. It was "science", damn it! Corporate HQ has the money and motive to sell their woo through by hiring "experts" to back their propaganda for profit.
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We are all powerless victims of very real health insurance/pharmaceutical company conspiracies,
Zorra
Aug 2014
#2
So you're not just trying to put words in my mouth, you're putting sources into my mouth, too.
HuckleB
Aug 2014
#20
I don't like the idea of these conspiracy theories but I can understand why people make them
ck4829
Aug 2014
#3
It's not limitied to Americans, look at consipracy theories in Africa about Ebola
snooper2
Aug 2014
#21
Not a conspiracy theory, most people in Congress think mental illness isn't worth the money
HereSince1628
Aug 2014
#10
My favorite is the 150 MPG carburetor that the oil companies kept off the market. nt
Logical
Aug 2014
#13
This sums up my beliefs perfectly (expressed far more eloquently than I did)
etherealtruth
Aug 2014
#28
The history of the science knowledge of the matter is often ignored by that trope.
HuckleB
Aug 2014
#33