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@real_Caroline_K Assured

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@RaminNasibov @elonmusk Lemmings

[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.

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@NEWSMAX He's done peace deals wonderfully in the last few months. How is he being snookered by this regime with their predictable delay tactics?

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@ACTforAmerica Part of his plan, actually. I read his book before that election.

[Dr Aseem Malhotra @DrAseemMalhotra]

Dear Prime Minister @RishiSunak,

YOU have the power to stop the ongoing unnecessary harm that is devastating individuals and families. @Keir_Starmer the Labour Party also lost one of its most decorated doctors @KailashChandOBE to this mRNA product. Please stop this roll out NOW

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@elonmusk Skewed to the west coast, by starting it after sundown for most of the country, running only 12 hours. Most ppl asleep.

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@PeaceGarden101 @FreeBeacon National Socialists like red. My parents were both unwilling citizens in that mad, mad Germany and told us about how it started. So this seems too familiar.

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@tedcruz Seems to be a common look for National Socialists.

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@benshapiro Abject fascism? Red, black, and white setting? Perfect to caption with a favorite Nazi slogan. Too tragic to be funny, tho.

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@RNCResearch Consistent with Democrat health cover-ups. Hid Roosevelt's polio (or Guillain-Barré?) Paralysis, hid JFK's Addisons. We deserve to know the true status of the health of this public servant.

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@tedcruz A massive wealth transfer from the working class to young elites. And the poor are simply left out of the equation.

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@DineshDSouza Our 1st child just paid off her college debt in the last couple years. Our 2nd and 3rd children did not go to college because of the astronomical cost, therefore were left behind by our educational "system." Now their taxes pay for a free ride for millions.

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@DonaldJTrumpJr Our 1st child just paid off her college debt in the last couple years. Our 2nd and 3rd children did not go to college because of the astronomical cost, therefore were left behind by our educational "system." Now their taxes pay for a free ride for millions.

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@EndWokeness I remember. We sold our home in Michigan and moved to Georgia, because our home in Michigan wouldn't be worth a penny under a mile of ice.

Okay, that was 7th down on our list of reasons to move, but it was on the list.

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@tedcruz @elonmusk @Twitter Yup, I'm one. I dropped off a couple years ago, and just came back because Twitter's going to be worthwhile again.