Re: Not always joking, it seems

Karl Johanson <karljohanson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Why does it happen in other fields?  There are, for instance,
>> expensive clothes and cheap clothes available for sale.  And
>> expensive food and cheap food.  Similarly with almost everything
>> else, except housing and medical care.

> There's lots of cheep medical care, if you aren't concerned with
> trivialities like useful evidence that the treatments are effective.
> Some people will sell you water that they claim they shook.  Some
> will wave their hands in the air over your body. Some of those folks
> don't charge too much.

Then it's unlike cheap food, which actually does nourish, and cheap
clothing, which actually does keep you covered and warm.
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