| Movie Review: I am Legend, Will Smith and the Dangers of Playing God ...
The public is always used as guinea pigs when it comes to testing drugs. (See Vaccines and Medical Experiments on Children, Minorities, Woman and Inmates.)
Big Pharma is so crazy about selling dangerous drugs to the public that if the virus depicted in the film actually existed, I can definitely see Merck launching it as a "miracle weight loss drug!" Notice that none of the beasts in the movie are fat?
Real Medical Experiment Gone Wrong: TGN1412While it's unlikely that the recipients of such biotech drugs would turn into raging night creatures who are thin, athletic and afraid of sunlight, the truth is actually far scarier. Case in point: The TGN1412 drug trial, which I reported on it March, 2006. Click here to read the original report.
In this drug trial, which tested an experimental arthritis drug on volunteer patients, things went terribly wrong: After being injected with the anti-inflammatory drug TGN1412, patients began tearing their shirts off, screaming that their heads were going to explode.
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Monday wild card
Mikey the poker playing Chimp gets a kiss from former Playboy Playmate, poker player Jill Ann Spaulding, during a news conference Thursday at the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas. The chimp is sponsored by PokerShare.com to play in this year's World Series of Poker. You write the cutline. (AP Photo) Top Cutlines: In A League Of Her Own: Hugh Hefner's not looking so hot these days, but the playmates still find him oddly attractive -- Taryn Brodwater. (tie) 1. AnyMouse rages: "You see?! This is what tolerance leads to! Now the chimp lobby wants special rights. It's lewd, lascivious, salacious, outrageous! And strangely irresistible," And: At a recent p0ker tournament in a Spokane Valley tavern, JBelle loses a hand and has to settle up with Bob -- both Family Phil.
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