Brandon Smith

[Brandon Smith @Diraffe]

@BuzzPatterson These videos need a hashtag.

[Brandon Smith @Diraffe]

@Joshje01 @garrytan Please provide examples of where this has been the case.

[The Misfit Patriot @misfitpatriot_]

I’m definitely doing this to as many people as I possibly can for the rest of my life.

[Brandon Smith @Diraffe]

@TukiFromKL Now do illegal immigrants

[Brandon Smith @Diraffe]

@CAgovernor @MarkCCrowley How can wages increase and costs not increase?

[Brandon Smith @Diraffe]

@foundmyfitness Urinary analysis does not measure the amount of chemicals in the body, only the amount being excreted in the urine. It does not account for the chemicals that are being retained in the body.

[Brandon Smith @Diraffe]

@FBIDirectorKash @DAGToddBlanche So, who, exactly, is going to jail?

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The year is 1950. Your doctor lights a cigarette and tells you smoking is fine. He read it in a study. He is telling the truth about having read it. He does not know, or is not saying, that the study was funded by the tobacco industry.

The year is 1958. Your doctor tells you to eat less fat. The evidence is contested. The contestation is not in the public messaging. The food industry has been helpful in clarifying which findings deserve attention. Some researchers who published contradictory data have been quietly defunded. Ancel Keys is on the cover of Time magazine.

The year is 1962. Your doctor prescribes thalidomide to your pregnant wife for morning sickness. It has been approved. The FDA gave it the green light in Europe. Twelve thousand children will be born with severe limb malformations before anyone in an official capacity acknowledges the problem. The families are told the drug was safe. The drug was approved. Both of these things remain true.

The year is 1972. Your doctor prescribes Valium. Britain is in the grip of a benzodiazepine wave that will last two decades. The dependency risk is known internally. It is not shared. Your doctor is not lying to you. He was not told either.

The year is 1999. Your doctor prescribes Vioxx for your arthritis. It is newer than ibuprofen, well-tolerated, and Merck has a study showing it works. Merck also has internal data suggesting it roughly doubles the risk of heart attack. This data will not reach your doctor for four more years. Fifty thousand people are estimated to have died in the interim. Merck eventually settles for 4.85 billion dollars. No criminal charges are brought.

The year is 2002. Your doctor prescribes OxyContin. Purdue Pharma trained its sales representatives to tell doctors the addiction risk was less than one percent. That figure came from a letter, not a study. The letter was about patients with terminal cancer on short-term doses in hospital settings. Your doctor is a GP with a patient who has a bad back. Nobody draws a distinction. Nobody is required to.

The year is 2008. Your doctor checks your cholesterol. Your LDL is elevated. You are prescribed a statin. Nobody mentions that the number needed to treat for primary prevention is approximately 250. Nobody mentions that the muscle deterioration you'll notice over the next two years is listed as a rare side effect rather than a documented pattern affecting a meaningful percentage of patients. The trial that informed the prescription was funded by the manufacturer.

Now it is today.

Your doctor has new guidelines. New studies. New consensus.

He is confident.

He has always been confident.

The confidence has never been the problem.

The confidence is, in fact, precisely the problem.

[Brandon Smith @Diraffe]

@Fai5alAld0sar1 @libsoftiktok There are clinics that are combining EBOO with filtration.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

this is insane

1.97 million preterm births and 74,000 newborn deaths in a single year. from two phthalates out of hundreds

theyre in perfumes, shampoos, lotions, scented candles, nonstick coatings, plastic containers, cling film, yoga pants, gym clothes, receipts

we ran a population-scale endocrine experiment and the result is dead babies

[Brandon Smith @Diraffe]

@Tulip23232 @SenCapito How so?

[Brandon Smith @Diraffe]

@TRobinsonNewEra Do Brits not eat jerky?

[Brandon Smith @Diraffe]

@kevinvdahlgren Chick needs to lay off the T

[Brandon Smith @Diraffe]

@MZHemingway It’s the oil stupid.

[Brandon Smith @Diraffe]

@SpeakerPelosi Obama’s “diplomacy” undermined US leadership, influence, and autonomy.

[Brandon Smith @Diraffe]

@HannahDCox Shouldn’t he answer to his constituents and not other members of Congress?

[Brandon Smith @Diraffe]

@elonmusk It sounds a lot like the shared deontology of nearly every major religion, just using different words. The timeless question remains - who or what defines the “ethical.”

[Brandon Smith @Diraffe]

@SenSanders How is this representative of oligarchy? It’s a business. He can fire who he wants.