Mr. Obama, eager to show that he was neither a neophyte nor soft on defense, talked about embracing those technologies that were "proven and cost-effective".
"I felt if we were going to get out of the box quick, we had to go with people who knew pressure; people that were proven.
"For years, the only thing offered by the federal government was money for programs that were proven to be unsuccessful in the area of sex education.
For instance, in the 1990s, health-maintenance organisations cut costs by trying to cover only treatments that were proven to work.
The authors made similarly sweeping generalizations in their previous book, "The Right Nation" (2004), generalizations that were proven almost comically wrong by the midterm elections of 2006 and the 2008 election of Barack Obama.
Dallas Buyers Club takes on big pharma, waging war on the bureaucrats who were happy to charge $10,000 a year for drugs that were toxic, while the FDA stood in the way of treatments that were proven to work, but less marketable.
