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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.
@lsnoel3 Righhtttt bc pharma has always been about helping people recover and get be healthy ππππ. You avoided the question, which is pretty telling.. but all good. To each his own. Give people options that donβt involve a pill or a jab, especially if it is showing positive data
Long overdue!! Very exciting progress on this front. As someone who has had 1st hand experience w/this.. tell me why a plant from nature (that has the same effects every time taken..which displays intentional design to me) and can help rewire the brain postively.. is illegal?!
π¨ WOW! Joe Rogan reveals President Trump IMMEDIATELY offered him FDA approval for a psychedelic treatment in a text chain
Because the data was SO CONVINCING and STUNNING
"I wanna tell everybody how this happened. I send President Trump some information."
"With one dose of Ibogaine, more than 80% of people are free of that addiction. With two doses, it's more than 90%. I sent him that information."
"The text message came back, sounds great. Do you want FDA approval? Let's do it. It was literally that quick!"
"For 56 years, we've lived under those terrible conditions. We're free of that now."
"We're free of that now, thanks to all these people that you see next to me, and thanks to President Trump!" β @joerogan
@lsnoel3 Agree. But there are also several that have incredible benefits. No one is forcing you to try anything. giving people the freedom to make their own choices when it comes to potential therapeutics is a good thing.
@LauraLoomer Ummm no. Itβs ok to criticize leadership. This is pretty hypocritical.. basically saying donβt say negative things about the president.. even if they are deserved?
37 miles of physical, emotional, and spiritual growth today with the broski @dsharpenc . Hope everyone has an AMAZING week!!! Go outside and enjoy Godβs creations!! #plantmedicine#health#nature
A former SFN author doing his thing! This is fantastic and fascinating. Phenomenally interesting, not the least of which would be the potential to enter into discovery regarding a tortious interference claim against the third parties who clearly were interfering with NC Stateβs contract.
you and bent over backwards to get you the funds needed (to deliver a 7th place ACC finish). And may karma find you every season after taking that Jimmy V pic. Give me 12M to build a roster and I can prob finish 7th place too.
main reason for not jumping on the βheβs goneβ train was bc i didnt think a man in leadership would be able to look himself in the mirror. Sounds like I was wrong. Whether this is a ploy to get a raise here or he is gone, hurry up and GTFO. Donβt leverage this fanbase that welcomed
Work trip had me out in beautiful #westernNC . Continuing the stadium checklist..Had to pop in and check out @_lexthomas2 and the @Catamounts@CatamountsFB .. these upgrades to facilities are awesome!! Looking forward to watching the Kid spin it all over the field!