David Cameron, The Press, Alzheimer's, and Hope

One should be cheering the news that Great Britain will double funding for Alzheimer's and dementia research. But there's something odd about the way it's being presented, at least to my eyes. Here's a story from the Guardian that might illustrate what I mean: The health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, said he hoped the dementia summit would have the same effect as the G8 summit in Gleneagles on HIV/Aids in 2005. "Today should be an optimistic day," he told BBC Breakfast. "Tony Blair had the G8 summit in Gleneagles in 2005 on HIV/Aids and actually that did turn out in retrospect to be a turning point in the battle against Aids. "I think if you bring the world's leaders together, health ministers from across the world, and we are all resolved that we really are going to do something about this as we face up to an ageing society." If 2005 was some sort of widely-recognized turning point in HIV control, I must have missed it. I'll be glad to be corrected, but the last sentence in that quote makes me wonder, because it isn't a sentence. Try it out: the first part isn't connected with the second. He thinks that if you bring the world's leaders together, then. . .what will happen? "If" implies some sort of resolution in a sentence, and there isn't any. How about the second part? They're all resolved that they're really going to do something - fine, but isn't that the easiest part? The simplest part? I mean, coming out and saying that you'd like to "do something" about a problem that ev...
Source: In the Pipeline - Category: Chemists Tags: Alzheimer ' s Disease Source Type: blogs