Re: the Zapno (tm) anti-static device and dishonesty

[Brian Whatcott <betwys@DIRECTVINTERNET.COM>]

If there were absolute liability for the veracity of medical and pharmaceutical
claims, all physicians and druggists were quacks.
Examples?
arthroscopic knee surgery
copper anti-rheumatic bracelets.

Brian

At 09:38 PM 7/30/02, Bernard, you wrote:
> While ethical standards or actual laws may vary, dishonesty does not.
> Whether legal or not, lying to your customers is still lying.  In 1920,
> selling radium and cocaine as "cure-all" medicine was just as dishonest
> then as it is today, only the legality has changed.
>
> What if one believed in the claim -- is that lying?
>
> A Bill Moyers video discussed lying -- I think his conclusion is one had to
> know it was untrue for it to be a lie.  There is, likely, absolute
> liability in
> such matters, so one could be convicted of quackery.
>
> bc

Brian Whatcott
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