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This kind of thing is rampant in Big Pharma also. Fake grassroots organizations, fake op-Ed’s, constant attacks on anyone who isn’t inline with them, ghost publ
by rjkennedy98 6y ago
This kind of thing is rampant in Big Pharma also. Fake grassroots organizations, fake op-Ed’s, constant attacks on anyone who isn’t inline with them, ghost publishing in “prestigious” journals, reputation laundering everywhere, and just straight buying people off. Look at the article from the other day in the bbc about losing someone to cancer conspiracies theories. Good chance that article is planted. The actual title was just false. People die most of the time on treatment for cancer anyways (usually with a lot of pain and side effects of chemo) as people who have lost loved ones know. But the bbc wants to make sure we crack down on misinformation that MAY be killing you. Pure BS. On the other hand you never see articles about how breast cancer screenings in young women actually increase the death rate (proven) or anything critical of Pharma. Anyone who knows anything about these areas knows that the level of corruption and sometimes evil is astounding.
- DangitBobby 6y agoThat breast cancer screening leads to higher mortality is a big claim. Any evidence? A web search on this topic seems to show that, at worst, screening has no impact on outcomes.
- rjkennedy98 6y agoThis article is from a book review about the subject but it has enough in there. The reasoning is pretty simple. Early intervention doesn’t help that much because treatments don’t work. And false positives in diagnosis lead to over treatment which is incredibly dangerous. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3563917/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3563917/