All the drug ads on TV are enraging.
Can’t advertise beer, but you can advertise pills.
It’s not as if the USA has an epidemic of prescription drug abuse or anything.
Ping
For Trump Derangement Syndrome a lot of people do combination therapies. Red wine, white wine, weed, meth, opioids, gin, whiskey, and on and on.
It is under the Right to Try notion. And My Body, My Choice is an alternative name for same thing.
Makes a bit of sense. Just the application is experimentation, itself. Without the science.
I laugh at all the side effects listed for any new drug, it seems.
“Death, more death, death on a stick”
See your doctor immediately!
I didn’t notice the date right away.
This would never get onto CNN today.
I write about the linkage between Bernays and medicine at length.
Enlightenment is within his books.
Wonder why the left has promoted marijuana as part of the covid treatment?
I watched the really excellent eight-part tv show “Dopesick” on Hulu a couple weeks ago. It is all about Purdue Pharma, the Sacklers, and how they used these methods to hook people on their OxyContin. The show is absolutely infuriating and it, too, is relevant to what is going on today with the mRNA drugs, the incestuous relationship of pharma companies and the FDA, the crookedness and corruption at the FDA, the revolving door from the FDA to the pharma companies, branding, sales incentives, and outright lying in advertising.
I can’t recommend “Dopesick” highly enough. It is brilliantly done with multiple concurrent threads: injured people getting hooked on opioids, the FDA approvals, a dogged investigator at the DEA, very determined US attorneys investigating, a country doctor, the ultra-wealthy Sackler family, and the Perdue Pharma sales department. The only thing I didn’t like was how much it jumped forward and backward in time. It would have been better with a straight chronological presentation.
If you do not subscribe to Hulu, get a free one week trial and watch it, then cancel the trial.
Our every ache and pain, itch and burp, rash and pimple, has been medicalized, all to the great benefit of Big Pharma.
A con. It has been around for a long time.
Today we have global warming and covid.
All about money.
Meet the world’s richest man who changed Christianity
To repay the loan, Albrecht’s men decided to use the proceeds from selling indulgences, an idea Pope Leo — who “understood better than anyone the ability to fleece the faithful,” and who once said, “How very profitable has been this fable of Christ” — supported.
But fleecing the faithful, like any good con job, required a cover story, and the pope provided it via St. Peter’s Basilica, which conveniently needed an expensive upgrade.
The pope announced the sale of indulgences for the renovation of the Basilica, and the sales effort was led by an “indulgence peddler” who “carried Bibles, crosses, and a large wooden box with …a picture of Satan on top,” and told worshipers that his indulgences “cancelled every sin.” He even offered a “progressive fee schedule,” with royalty paying 25 florins and everyday laborers just one.
The money raised was split 50/50, with half going to the pope, the other half to Fugger.
Despite its profitability, the indulgence sale would have earth-shattering consequences, as it inspired a reformer named Martin Luther, who was appalled by it, to write “ninety-five arguments against indulgences, his famous Ninety-Five Theses,” which began the movement that would lead to the Protestant Reformation.
https://nypost.com/2015/07/26/meet-historys-richest-man-who-changed-christianity/