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** WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2023
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It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every act of the citizen, however secret; it has begun to throw around its operations the high dignity and impeccability of a State religion; its agents become a separate and superior caste, with authority to bind and loose, and their thumbs in every pot. But it still remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.
– H.L. Mencken [1926]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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November 29, 2023
Wrong Diagnosis, Wrong Prescription ([link removed])
If your doctor gets the diagnosis wrong, it is almost certain that he’s going to get the prescription wrong. If he concludes, for example, that your stomach ache is nothing more than indigestion, when the problem actually is cancer, the medicine he prescribes is probably not going to do you much good. The same holds true for diagnoses for ailments that afflict the ...
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