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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (19205)	9/7/2010 12:32:58 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 42652

it could just as easily have been "Better Homes and Gardens"...tsk tsk Just where would you expect to find an article aimed at warning patients that they might not be getting the best guidance re the health of their arteries? The NEJM? Yeah, that would reach the soccer moms...

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (19205)	9/7/2010 1:45:50 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 42652

Its seems like more and more on SI, almost everyone's point seems to be the other sides source. Present an argument someone placed on the internet, and its "who cares its from A who has ideology B" (or "C who is funded by D", or "E who doesn't have the prestige of my source F". etc.). Present a claim, you get asked for a link, present a couple of links and the links supposedly doesn't count because they don't ideologically agree with the person who's discounting them. It seems that's the idea of actually addressing real arguments is going away, now its all about who says something rather than what is said, whether this takes the form of ad-hominem, or an argument from authority.