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> From: LIST Helen K. Mason <[log in to unmask]> > Dear new friends, > All the balls of string in the world and all the badges in the world and all > the email messages in the world are not going to cure PD. It takes publicity > for research that must be done. But unfortunately, research means money, and the only sources of sufficiently large amounts of the stuff are corporations and governments. Drug companies research things that will make money for them; they are not interested, for example, in *curing* or *preventing* PD, but in providing a medication for which there is a persistent demand. Not that I'm knocking them; I wouldn't be here now without them. But ya gotta call 'em as ya see 'em. :-) Which leaves us with governments, run by vote-seeking, poll-driven, knee-jerk-reaction politicians, influenced by sound-bite/picture-opportunity/doorstop-interview journalists catering for short-attention-span "sensation of the day" audiences. And *any* technique that attracts attention and/or gains supportive publicity is legitimate; not only those that attract immediate attention, but those that sustain interest, both that of the general public, and that of sufferers, carers and their friends and families. Jim