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Disease Mongering Engine

Learned of this today via MEDLIB-L:

With the Disease Mongering Engine, “YOU can invent diseases, too!”

Here’s mine:
My Disease

Interesting and entertaining satire.

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March 6th, 2007 | Category: Consumer Health Info, For Medical Libraryfolk, Fun | Subscribe to comments | Both comments and pings are currently closed

4 Responses to “Disease Mongering Engine”

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CJ Bryant:
March 6th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
It might be interesting and entertaining satire if the underlying website were not so damn scary. “The hidden link between choice of groceries and violent crime in young males.” – for example

He advocates we all throw out all our drugs and manage all of our health problems through diet. The ones we’re not imagining of course.
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David Rothman:
March 6th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
CJ, I completely agree that the underlying Web site is goofy- but I still think the commentary is entertaining and makes a point worth noting about the impact of pharm marketing on diagnoses. DTC marketing scares me much more than the web site.
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oliver:
March 7th, 2007 at 8:49 am
David, some time ago we already invented a few library related disorders, manually.
http://medinfo.netbib.de/?p=1233
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David Rothman:
March 7th, 2007 at 8:53 am
Oh, these are wonderful, but not as imaginary. I’ve seen many cases of a few of these.

Thanks so much for sharing these, Oliver.

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