Law

Here be Dragons

I consider links to be another form of citation, allowing one to precisely attribute a source. It's also a pointer, a signpost, in the map of my words.

When writing a history, you draw on the the words, the pictures, the deeds of others. If you are unable to direct readers to those others, then how are your readers to build any trust that what you say is so? When all you are doing is weaving many threads into a tapestry, you cannot, godlike, call it forth: fiat lux.

Unknown regions, places we've never been or cannot go, are wastelands, filled only with dragons.

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Pusherman

I don't want to see a single patient coming off Neurontin until they've been up to 48 mg per day.
— a Parke-Davis executive, as quoted on All Things Considered, June 18, 2000, National Public Radio

Oddly enough, there's a lawsuit, Franklin v. Pfizer, over Parke-Davis Warner-Lambert Pfizer's practice of treating doctors to nice gifts, if they prescribed enough Neurontin. While the doctors did nothing illegal, apparently, I would hope that the AMA would have something to say about their ethics. The British reprimanded Pfizer.

11:10:41 AM # Google It!
categories: Law