i never heard of the book from 40 years ago, but reading the article made me think "what a woman-hating jerk" and feeling bad for all the women who took high does of HRT for years based on "information" like that from doctors.
they give people drugs that have not been tested properly in the first place, and then 30 or 40 years later, after they've used people as paying guinea pigs and seen the results, they decide, oops, this drug seems to be not such a great idea to use the way we've told them to use it.
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Date: 2007-01-03 09:52 pm (UTC)i never heard of the book from 40 years ago, but reading the article made me think "what a woman-hating jerk" and feeling bad for all the women who took high does of HRT for years based on "information" like that from doctors.
they give people drugs that have not been tested properly in the first place, and then 30 or 40 years later, after they've used people as paying guinea pigs and seen the results, they decide, oops, this drug seems to be not such a great idea to use the way we've told them to use it.