Links and Minifeatures 08 13 Monday

Carnival of Personal Finance Recommended: Beware of the Invincibility Complex

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Alternative Medicine Threatens Beasts with Extinction





One reason who ecology minded folks should be grateful for the invention of Viagra:

On occasion, medicines that work help reduce the demand for medicines that don't: David Stryker, a New Mexican physician on safari at the Kenyan game park, noted that one unintended consequence of Viagra is that it has slowed the poaching of rhinos and other endangered species.

One other thing that doesn't get emphasized enough:

In his book "The Devil's Chaplain," Oxford University's Richard Dawkins states: "There is no alternative medicine. There is only medicine that works and medicine that doesn't work."

I'll stick with medicines that have been successfully vetted by clinical trials, thank you very much.



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