On 26 Oct 2006 at 8:58, Gary Klatsky wrote: > My understanding of the criticism is that people like Limbaugh are > saying Michael Fox purposefully did not take his medication to amplify > his symptoms.
Which only shows just how ignorant Limbaugh is. As Michael Sylvester said, those dreadful symptoms exhibited by Michael Fox on camera, called chorea, are not caused directly by Parkinson's but by the medication (probably l-dopa or a related drug) he takes to deal with it. So the accusation would have to be that he deliberately took his medication to tick Limbaugh off (which would sound even sillier than what Limbaugh claimed). If he had gone on without it, he probably would have been frozen, with great difficulty in moving or speaking. The claim that he did it to exploit his disease for political purpose is outrageous. His only hope for anything approaching a normal life is a treament which may result from stem-cell research. The obstacles to this research erected by the Bush administration have a direct and powerful effect on his life. No one is more entitled to speak out in favour of stem cell research than someone in Michael Fox's situation. And Bush parading those frozen-embryo "snowflake children" saved from embryonic mass murder at a press conference wasn't exploitation, of course (see http://tinyurl.com/ybebo3 ). [ http://cfav.blogspot.com/2006/07/adopting-non-embryonic-children- is.html] Stephen ----------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Department of Psychology Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2600 College St. Sherbrooke QC J1M 0C8 Canada Dept web page at http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy TIPS discussion list for psychology teachers at http://faculty.frostburg.edu/psyc/southerly/tips/index.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
