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ISSUE 6 | JUNE 2006 Editor: Tony Sutton editor@coldtype.net 2 TheREADER TheREADER <strong>ColdType</strong> 3. ARE YOU SURE YOU’RE FEELING OK? By Stan Cox 11. APPEALING TO THE U.S. IS NOT VERY APPEALING By William Blum 13. COLBERT AND THE COURTIER PRESS By Robert Parry 17. OPENING THE DEBATE ON ISRAEL By Norman Solomon 21. CLOSE TO HOME: MY MISSING YEARS By Andy Moore 24. RED LIGHT DISTRICT; BONO’S INDEPENDENT By Harry Browne 38. SIXTEEN KILOS OF WRITER’S BLOCK By Paul Ash 30. “COME OUT WITH YOUR HANDS UP” By Bill Blum 38. HATE BAITING AT THE NATIONAL POST By C. L. Cook 40. MEMORIAL DAY? By David Rubinson A PROJECT OF <strong>ColdType</strong> WRITING WORTH READING FROM AROUND THE WORLD www.coldtype.net
You see a TV show or a commercial featuring medical problems, and you start feeling the symptoms yourself: a twinge in the leg or maybe a moment of doubt about your emotional stability. If so, you, like millions of Americans, could be suffering from a serious condition known as telechondria. But help is here, with new Advertil(R) in the green-and-yellow caplet. Ask your doctor … No, wait, don’t really ask. Telechondriacs have not yet been recognized by science. Pharmacists are not dispensing drugs like “Advertil,” and they probably never will. The last chemical that pharmaceutical executives would want to sell you is one that makes it harder for them to convince you that you’re sick and need their products. Drug corporations and their “awareness” groups, as we’re all painfully aware, have defined and redefined a host of medical conditions – including female sexual dysfunction, erectile dysfunction, restless legs, sleeplessness, bipolar disorder, attention deficit disorder, social anxiety disorder and irritable bowel syndrome – to include larger and larger segments of the population in the United States and other Western nations. Accepting for a moment the industry’s claims about the numbers of people suffering from the eight diseases listed above, we could do some simple calculations showing that up to 93 percent of adult women and men in the United States suffer from at least one of them. Throw in a few more conditions like depression, bone density loss and premenstrual dysphoric disorder, and industry figures make it appear that virtually every American has a disease in need of a treatment. Last year, Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels called attention to the epidemic of disease marketing in their book “Selling Sickness.” Last month, health professionals, academics, journalists and consumers gathered in Newcastle, Australia, for the Inaugural Conference on Disease Mongering. GOOD HEALTH? Drug companies are cashing in on a host of newly-defined medical conditions, including female sexual dysfunction, erectile dysfunction,restless legs syndrome, sleeplessness, social anxiety disorder and irritable bowel syndrome. If we believe the industry, says Stan Cox, we’ve all got a disease in need of treatment ARE YOU SURE YOU’RE FEELING OK? Throw in a few more conditions like depression, bone density loss and premenstrual dysphoric disorder, and industry figures make it appear that virtually every American has a disease in need of a treatment TheREADER 3
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