Awesome paternalism:

http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/006702.html

As a note, I link to future pundit in my blog roll, rather than the folks that link to me or that I cite most for my own psychopaternalist reasons. I feel I should be reading him, though it feels like medicine, rather than TGGP, who more often feels like porn.

Comments

[TGGP]

I get why we are adapted to find today's unhealthy junk food delicious, but is there any reason medicine should have a bad taste? I actually think a lot of medicine doesn't taste that bad (though admittedly I haven't tasted that much), but there is some subset of medicine that has become associated with "tasting like medicine".

[Hopefully Anonymous]

TGGP,
We're far afield from my expertise, but I've heard some medicines are deliberately given an unpleasant taste to deter overconsumption/overdose, particularly by children.

[TGGP]

http://highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2009/11/13/10243