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The genuine demagogue assails minorities and labels his foes Communists.
The cover story assails the avarice of drug companies for developing lucrative lifestyle drugs to treat impotence, baldness, wrinkles, and toenail fungus, while ignoring unprofitable deadly diseases.
If one's field touches on the medical profession, insurance, or any other area concerned with the bureaucracy (which I am always tempted to spell bureaucrazy), this is an essential aid in unraveling and clarifying—insofar as is possible—the verbiage that assails one from all sides.
Meanwhile, USAT says he "opposes" it and the LAT says he "assails" it.
While often couching their critiques in language that assails the pursuit of perfection, what they really are attacking is the far more oft-expressed—albeit far less lofty—desire to improve or enhance a particular behavior or trait by the application of emerging biomedical knowledge in genetics, neuroscience, pharmacology, and physiology.