There are a lot, but how many would prefer to risk drooling on themselves for the rest of their lives? It's not like side effects are some big secret.
I think a lot of presumption is required to buy into the notion that pharmaceutical companies are peddling poison for profit, and I think those presumptions are wrong.
The entire record could be set straight if the FDA were abolished. Without a government agency suppressing and/or promoting drugs that require 15 years of asskissing for approval, there would be nothing but the market to decide what was and was not a worthwhile medicine. People would actually have to take responsibility for their medical decisions (patients as well as doctors). But, that will never happen. Most who will condemn FDA sanctioning out of one side of their mouth will condemn free markets out the other side. At root, those who criticize the industry (or any industry) are simply looking to be the authority controlling it.
A lot of things aren't secrets. People don't know about them because they believe they don't need to learn. In the case of the dangers of drugs, people trust their doctors not to give them things that won't harm them, and so they aren't as concerned as they should be.
There are a lot of things about health that people don't know, and don't care about. People don't take responsibility.
That is also why they go to doctors much of the time, because they want the doctors to be responsible for taking care of their health instead of doing it themselves.
Doctors are protected from lawsuits so long as they provide the standard of care, determined entirely by the medical association itself. Even if what a doctor does kills someone, and it could have been done differently to not kill the patient, the doctor is exempt from prosecution, because the official standard of care determines acceptable medical practice, and not common sense, or the best info available to help people.
Who determines the standard of care? The Medical schools. Who funds the medical schools? The drug companies. The drug companies help determine the standard of care, by influencing the medical curriculum.
The only right way to handle disease is to prevent it, but that would mean that much of the food industry would have to change or lose money. The food most people eats makes them sick, and causes them to seek out medical care, and drugs. At it's most benign, people eat something that gives them a headache and they take aspirin, or something that gives them indigestion and they take an antacid. Had they not eaten the thing that makes them sick, they would not need the remedy.
If something you eat makes you sick or gives you a headache in the short term, what are the long term consequences? The short term effect proves it is harming your body, and damage can be cumulative.
In 10 years people might get cancer or some other disease after eating or drinking it on a routine basis.
Does the fact that something you eat makes you sick make it a poison?
It is poisoning your body and it is sold for profit.
That thing consumed causes you to seek remedies, possibly medical care or drugs, which are also for profit.
Profit is the objective.
Whatever gives the MOST profit.
If someone eats healthy and needs no remedies because of it, that is the least profit. That is why healthy eating is discouraged by most.
Poison, or things that cause disease in the body generates profit.
Things that cause no problems don't require any fixing, thus no additional profit. There is more self sufficiency and efficiency in that. It is simple, but then someone might not have as many Mercedes in their garage. Bad, bad, bad. This world is about profit.
How can you make profit if people have no need to buy what you sell?
Poison generates demand for goods and services, and thus generates profit and buys you a big house.
That's the economy! That's become the American dream. If a few people have to die, and a lot of people become sick, that's ok so long as some people get rich.
That's capitalism.
Some drugs have over 125,000% profit. How do you think those drug company owners and stockholders can make enough money to go on vacations and have opulent houses unless people get sick enough to have to take them?
There are drugs that cost 7 cents a bottle to make and they charge $200 for it.
That is why the media is the way it is, and product placement and advertising, ect.
You NEED to causes demand for a product, and there is no greater demand for a product when people's lives are at stake, and the media tells them that it's the only way to go, and everything else is quackery.
It's all about the money.
It's sort of like electric cars early last century. There were over a hundred electric car companies that sold cars, but because electric cars needed no spare parts, because they are so simple, there was no profit past the initial sale. As a result, those companies went out of business.
They made great products, but too great to need parts. Internal combustion engined cars need a lot of replacement parts, because they are complicated and break down. There is an inherent need to fix them regularly built into the design. That is why they were and are so profitable.
Eating right prevents the need for greater maintenance or medical treatment or drugs.
In order for the few who are ruthless enough to do what it takes to be rich, a lot of times, other people have to die. Don't you understand that?
About the FDA, those who head the drug companies quit and sit on the board of the FDA, and then they go back and repeat.
They set policies to protect their profits. Half of the drugs they approve are later recalled as being too toxic, only when they have new ones to sell, which are supposed to be improved, only different enough to be seen as new.
The FDA has also tried to have nutritional supplements classified as drugs, by lobbying to have bills passed in congress. They failed each time. They failed because the public spoke out about it.
Nutritional supplements help people to be healthy and thus not need drugs, which cuts back on drug company profits.
Drugs kill tens of thousands of people, and because of the help of the FDA, the drug companies are rarely held accountable.
The FDA is corrupt.The FDA exists to protect the profits of the major drug companies.
Even small companies who want to make drugs aren't allowed to use research done by the big companies even though it is freely available, and supposedly valid. The small companies would need to spend the millions of dollars on research, which they can't afford, so no small company can compete.
It is like no other business. After a long time, elements of a former design can be incorporated into a new one, as in cars or appliances or whatever. Not so with drugs.
The FDA should be abolished. On that we agree.
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