8 Comments
User's avatar
⭠ Return to thread
Jestre's avatar

While researching my Pfizer series I came across an interesting statistic... BigPharma paid for 3,790,908,000 pages of advertisements in medical journals alone. In 1958.

I seriously doubt prescription drugs are the 4th leading cause of death. More like #1. Spending on marketing and ghostwritten papers brings them down to #4. But all the money in the world can't wash away the sheer volume of murder they are responsible for. Where were the other leading causes of death on the list before society became doped up?

Expand full comment
JP Freeman's avatar

My extensive experience as a patient in hospitals has taught me that doctors there have very broad but thin medical knowledge. Years ago I had an anaphylactic reaction to a drug and was told I needed intubation to help me breathe. I shook my head, negative. Absolutely not.

Spouse was horrified, children urged compliance. I blinked the letters for “Zyrtec.” Kids ran to CVS and got it. They drizzled the liquid into my mouth and I was breathing in minutes. The attending asked why I was “so uncooperative?” I told him that 25% of people who are intubated never take an unassisted breath again.

He had “no idea” that was the case.

I said “shame on you buddy. What are you doing in an ED??”

This was at Medstar GEORGETOWN in DC.

Expand full comment
Jestre's avatar

They're so quick to use things like intubation, but I would wager a bet that there has never been a clinical trial proving intubation helps ("ethical" reasons) and natural experiments would probably prove it often does not (if any doctor would think to even ask the question).

Expand full comment
Brian Mowrey's avatar

Basically the same for CPR. Essentially impossible to prove it improves outcomes.

Expand full comment
The Mallorn Tree's avatar

You have to consider Big Pharma is not alone. If you put Big Pharma, Big Agra and the food industry together, they're probably responsible for moat deaths. Refined grains, processed dairy, sugar and salt, refined seed oils. All those things are major drivers for the top causes of death, heart disease, cancer and strokes. Diabetes.

Then people are "treated" with pharmaceutical products...

And those industries literally work together. They lobby the same politicians, are approved by pretty much the same regulators, and they're supporting each other. At least eating junk food is the financial basis for pharma profits.

Expand full comment
MeriBear's avatar

All part of the soft depop plan. People have not been dying fast enough so we now have Covid and the jabs. “You didn’t die with the first three? Here, let’s give you one every month until you do.”

Expand full comment
Tigerkatze's avatar

True. Though salt per se ain’t that bad. It’s the processed crap. The food pyramid scam. The low fat hype. Seed oils yuckiness. Docs look at me puzzled that I eat red meat and butter and my own cakes and my bmi is 18. I make sure to use quality ingredients; in moderation and now BS processed shit. Pass me the butter please 😂

Expand full comment