When using noxious heat as a stimulus, some unpredictable things happen.

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A german firm is making strides with a new drug for pain.

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The thing has a name. Why can’t it act like just one thing?

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Who is it that is “just getting by”. What does this phrase mean, if anything?

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Merck has long enjoyed the reputation of being the real thing when they set their mind to a research problem. Now that they are eyeing pain, we can only declare, “Yes!!!!!” No matter what the world says about drug companies, since they have a lower profit margin than those who sell bottled water, we still love them. They have amazing scientists. If the execs would hire a few more of them they could make better profits, sell more stock, and hire more scientists.

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