Barbarian Gatekeepers

New at Reason: What's wrong with online prescription drug purchases, Ron Bailey wants to know.

Comments

[american]

wow. Ronald Bailey tells us that the global icecaps melting is just a coincidence. He says that all the government reports showing global warming aren't true. He knows more about global warming than anyone, since he sits at a desk in some swank think tank funded by Exxon Mobil that denies global warming exists (HMM--wonder how that works) Does anyone believe the bullshit that this guys is telling us?

[Steve in CO]

Hey American,

People don't have to be right about everything to be right about some things.

Regards,

Steve

🙂

[Ron Bailey]

American: Do you actually read any of my stuff on global warming? In any case, Steve in CO is right.

[American]

I've read some of the shit that comes out of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, its just a mouthpiece for corporations. Pretty sad actually. I'm not sure why anyone listens to you.

[American]

Wanna learn about the bunch of losers this guy works for?

http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Competitive_Enterprise_Institute

[Gary McGath]

This situation provides a strong test of my principles, since I'd love to see all spammers declared "enemy combatants." 🙂

But actually, prescription laws are part of what creates a market for spammers, much as controlled-substance laws create a market for criminal drug dealers. It takes an idiot to buy from someone whose web site is in China, who uses a forged address, and whose sales pitch amounts to "Bwahaha! I misspelled every word in this V1@gra pitch so that your spam filters wouldn't keep me from invading your mailbox!" But when the alternative is spending hundreds of dollars for a legitimate doctor's OK, it's not surprising if there are some people who'll take their chances with a crook.

And the regulatory situation creates the irony that the spammers who actually do ship medicine -- probably a tiny minority compared to those who take the money and run or who ship candy pills -- are the ones the FDA goes after.

[Ron Bailey]

American: I'll take that answer as a "no."

[Jesus]

Heh. What a joke. Go back to lying about science, Ronnie. Go back to MISleading the public on genetically modified food and global warming. Most people are too smart to believe your corporate nonsense.

[Ron Bailey]

American and Jesus: I guess I'll still have to take that as a "no." Please read my articles, not what a bunch of ideologically opposed activists say about them.

[RoniieRoniee]

Why would I? Your purpose is to serve as a corporate mouthpiece. You are no more trustworthy than PR Watch.

[Gary McGath]

Any idea why a person with a fixation chose this particular thread to post repeated off-topic rants under an assortment of different names?

[american]

maybe because he's exposing Ronald Bailey and the Kompetitive Enterprise Institute's pathetic excuse for "science".

[mike]

It's American's time of the month. Or maybe he's just retarded.

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