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Roger Forsberg

St. Paul, MN
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Posted on 01/11/12 at 03:06 am in response to Politics by gaffe is stupid, but it probably works

"...Also, the insurance companies don't keep us healthy, they pay our medical bills when we get sick, but staying healthy is my own business. Having health insurance doesn't make me any less likely to get cancer or hit by a bus...." -- Thomas Eckhardt, #6

Whoa! A comment which is not merely simple and insightful, but also true and unexpected in this particular forum (!) -- although there may be many who frequent the MinnPost to add their comments who might bitterly contest this...

Posted on 01/08/12 at 11:26 pm in response to Where were the Iowans?

#2, Neal Rovick's research has done all of us a favor, and has provided evidence for what most thoughtful observers have known for more than a few weeks: Ron Paul's appeal to standard, garden variety Republicans is very slim (I've seen numbers that indicate his support is between 7% & 10%). His appeal is greatest to those who typically don't identify themselves as "Republicans" or "Democrats"

Indeed, his appeal to the American Establishment Voter (by which I mean those who...

Posted on 12/30/11 at 06:51 pm in response to Minnesota experts name the most significant health-related events of 2011

"...And who can forget Minnesota's own Michele Bachmann's wide-eyed lie that she met a mom who had a child who got "mental retardation" from the cancer preventing HPV vaccine." -- Dr Steven Miles

There are many, many people that read comments to the Minnpost columns who parse the sentences therein with extraordinary & exceeding care -- especially the sentences of others who are not in lockstep with their political beliefs. Thus, I believe that it's important for us to apply...

Posted on 01/01/12 at 09:52 pm in response to Minnesota experts name the most significant health-related events of 2011

"As a New Year special I respond to my critics." -- Steven Miles, MD

In answer to Dr Miles' generous New Year's response, and in recognition of the fact that he is recipient of the "National Council of Teachers of English’ George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language" I will suggest the following precept to him in the spirit of Platonic dialogue: referring to someone in print as lying, or being a liar, or even being the source of 'wide-...

Posted on 01/03/12 at 09:57 am in response to Minnesota experts name the most significant health-related events of 2011

"Mr Forsberg. She lied in that she had no idea if the statement was true. She lied when...."

For the record, I cannot claim to have been there [at the Bachmann event], and as I indicated initially she offers very little political appeal (to me). I have access only to newspaper or blog accounts, i.e., to what evidentiary experts would refer to as second-hand, third-hand, or hearsay reports. I certainly have no extrasensory ability to gaze into the hearts and minds of others to judge...

Posted on 09/16/11 at 12:07 pm in response to Bachmann's vaccine blunder is a trademark of her public life

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Alright, Mr Eric Black, you seem to be a very clever chap (with the possible exception of using a questionable expression such as "small-governmentist") just what is the nature of your antipathy toward those you refer to as "extreme liberty-lovers". And, tell us this, what would be your response to Big Brother's demand that you submit members of YOUR family to his health mandates -- whether you find it prudent & sensible, or not -- and that he (Big Brother) will brook...

Posted on 09/16/11 at 04:38 pm in response to Bachmann's vaccine blunder is a trademark of her public life

" #14) Perhaps you can explain, if you are so distrustful of Big Pharma and Big Medicine--are you similarly distrustful of Big Business and Big Finance and their wishes with respect to regulations and rules? "

As long as you've asked, #18 -- Mr NR, I am, INDEED, as distrustful of those institutions -- as you would be also if you had read "The Wealth of Nations" (have you?). Big Business & Big Finance will attend to their own interests EXCLUSIVELY, and that's why competitive...

Posted on 09/17/11 at 12:27 pm in response to Bachmann's vaccine blunder is a trademark of her public life

"Perhaps you should feel shame for making assumptions about the medical establishment, and for yelling your intermperate views at others. "

Dear Mark Stromseth: I'm not certain what assumptions you believe that I made about the medical establishment in my remarks above; perhaps you can point them out to me. My remarks were based entirely on my experience with the American Medical Establishment.

And, as for 'yelling', I didn't realize that I was doing so. I thought that I...

Posted on 09/17/11 at 12:41 pm in response to Bachmann's vaccine blunder is a trademark of her public life

Dear Paul Udstrand, #29

"Roger, the two circumstances are not comparable. The use of Ritalin with children was begun without any clinical trials and initiated by individual doctors. ADHD is inextricably woven into a larger cultural phenomena that is very complex. The why's and wherefores of this are to complex to go into here."

Yes, and those doctors and physicians were part of the American Allopathic Medical Establishment as I saw it (they had their MD diplomas hanging on...

Posted on 09/17/11 at 01:17 pm in response to Bachmann's vaccine blunder is a trademark of her public life

For Mr Paul Brandon...

"and #22:
the allopathic/homeopathic question was settled 150 years ago. One has been proven to work; the other hasn't."

If you are referring to a primacy of allopathic medicine then I'm not certain what happened in 1861 (other than the beginning of the American Civil War)!

However, if you are referring to a primacy of allopathic medicine you will be shocked & stunned when you get to the 3 European countries in which I lived either for...