Deepak Chopra attacks Skepticism

[Tiberius]

Few mistakes? Few? Did you see the legal actions being taken against dozens of corps?

All companies make mistakes. The fact that legal actions are being taken against them can only be viewed as a positive thing. They are being forced to pay for their mistakes.

Baxter/Bayer shipping a hemophilia shot that it can't deny knowing is tainted to europe? Oops.
The same company accidentially shipping 71 kilograms of attenuated virus material that happened to be contaminated with live bird flu? Do you think it is possible to make such a mistake in a level 4 bio seucre environment? If it is, do you think we should re-write those rules? I assume that it is more plausible that they did it on purpose, but the implications would be huge. Mostly eugenics and genocide.

Did it on purpose? Are you mad? These are drugs we are talking about, and yes, drugs are dangerous. They are being injected into human beings, thus care must be taken. It is awful that mistakes are made, but we aren't perfect, and nobody is claiming we are. However, the balance has to be made. Either some mistakes are made and some people die, or no medicine is produced, and everyone dies.

I am not drawn to the negative, we could talk about things that are right in the world if you want, we just haven't had any of those conversations yet. And I would say that it is you, not I with the unrealistic world view. What overall good is coming from calling children hyperactive and drugging them? I was a drug addict for years, but where did I get my first drug experience? In school, against my will. Show me the positive of such a program, if there is one, and then demonstrate it being larger than the negative side of such behavior.

A positive side? Sure. Hyperactivity can be dangerous for the child and for others. We aren't talking about hyperactivity in a general sense here (as you appear to be). Nobody is going around and drugging children who simply have had too much sugar. Hyperactivity is a well known mental disorder, and it needs to be treated.

An overall trend for good. Cite something, anything. All I can do is shake my head.
And you are overgeneralizing. I am not saying that we should not have medical science, I am not a Luddite. I am saying that if a co-operation of buisinessmen are found to be in breach of the law, or of basic human ethics, they should be held accountable. If a pharma corp can not break the law, then they are free to continue saving lives. So no, you are incorrect in stating that w/o these same companies there would be a higher mortality rate. If a company breaks the law, should it not be held accountable? Or are these, like the banking structures, "too big to fail"?

I agree, they should be prosecuted, which is exactly what is happening according to your first paragraph. You seem to be arguing for something that is already happening. Where does your problem lie exactly???