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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Drug capsules
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Date: Sun, 2-Mar-86 16:22:33 EST
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> 
> Ok, I've been thinking about all this tylenol stuff and I believe the
> following for absolutely no factual reason:
> 
> 	I predict it will be discovered that something in
> 	tylenol's manufacturing process added the cyanide,
> 	or somehow caused it to be generated while in capsule.
> 	That is, it was not put there by a person with malicious
> 	intent.
> 
> My only reasoning is that their proof that things were tampered with
> seems pretty thin. Also, I presume manufacturing techniques from
> company to company are fairly different (perhaps even protected), so
> there is no need to explain why other acetominophen manufacturers have
> not had the same problem. Obviously this is not original, I am just
> saying it seems to not be what people are looking into and still
> appears to be the most plausible explanation. Anyone know anything
> concrete? Is it just that the interested parties are more comfortable
> with the lone terrorist theory than shaking our faith in the system?
> 
> 	-Barry Shein, Boston University

If the problem is a manufacturing fault, why so few fatalities?  A whole
batch should be contaminated -- they don't make Tylenol one bottle at
a time.  Instead of a couple fatalities in one geographic area, there
should be dozens.

Based on your postings in net.politics, I think you would rather make
a poorly reasoned statement like the one above, so you can blame big bad
capitalism, rather than accept the fact that there are evil people out
there who like to kill.