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If you go to a doctor with some kind of pain and she prescribes you some pills, are you hesitant to take them? Are you questioning the science behind these pill

If you go to a doctor with some kind of pain and she prescribes you some pills, are you hesitant to take them? Are you questioning the science behind these pills? Are you accusing companies the pills are a fraud and government for peddling them for corporate enrichment? Are you looking at list of side effects and say, because it has potential sideffects you are not going to take it? No, you just take the pill because you trust your doctor, you trust the process is providing you reasonable safety. Have there been issues in the past? Of course there have been, but the idea is to fix the system rather than deny its value. Peddling FUD is exactly what anti vaccine movement does where there is no reason to fear it. Just do the best job we can running the process correctly (ie holding "big pharma" to be responsible for what they produce).

tobesure 5y ago
>If you go to a doctor with some kind of pain and she prescribes you some pills, are you hesitant to take them? Are you questioning the science behind these pills? Are you accusing companies the pills are a fraud and government for peddling them for corporate enrichment? Are you looking at list of side effects and say, because it has potential sideffects you are not going to take it? Absolutely, yes to all of these, why wouldn't you in 2021? Are you not aware of the irresponsible over prescription which led to the opioid crisis? Are you aware that you can request alternative prescriptions? >Are you questioning the science behind these pills? Science is not beyond reproach, is never 100% certain, and doctors are especially fallible. It would be irresponsible not to conduct your own research, particularly when you can typically find all manner of studies, including trial results, for most medications. It's irresponsible to blindly consume whatever a doctor prescribes without awareness for side effects. >Just do the best job we can running the process correctly You put far too much blind faith in bureaucracy. >Peddling FUD is exactly what anti vaccine movement does where there is no reason to fear it. That's just not true. The medical establishment makes mistakes all the time, both at large scale and individual scale. There are hundreds of different drugs which were discontinued after years of use permanently harmed or disabled patients who later sued. Frankly, your optimism is toxic. Further, it is not up to my doctor to decide what an acceptable level of risk is for an me. None of this even touches upon the perverse incentives, political and financial, to get a "working" vaccine shipped ASAP. There's no reason to believe that the establishment, which has been granted legal immunity for this vaccine, will be entirely and rapidly forthcoming if there are severe negative side effects.

tobesure 5y ago

>If you go to a doctor with some kind of pain and she prescribes you some pills, are you hesitant to take them? Are you questioning the science behind these pills? Are you accusing companies the pills are a fraud and government for peddling them for corporate enrichment? Are you looking at list of side effects and say, because it has potential sideffects you are not going to take it? Absolutely, yes to all of these, why wouldn't you in 2021? Are you not aware of the irresponsible over prescription which led to the opioid crisis? Are you aware that you can request alternative prescriptions? >Are you questioning the science behind these pills? Science is not beyond reproach, is never 100% certain, and doctors are especially fallible. It would be irresponsible not to conduct your own research, particularly when you can typically find all manner of studies, including trial results, for most medications. It's irresponsible to blindly consume whatever a doctor prescribes without awareness for side effects. >Just do the best job we can running the process correctly You put far too much blind faith in bureaucracy. >Peddling FUD is exactly what anti vaccine movement does where there is no reason to fear it. That's just not true. The medical establishment makes mistakes all the time, both at large scale and individual scale. There are hundreds of different drugs which were discontinued after years of use permanently harmed or disabled patients who later sued. Frankly, your optimism is toxic. Further, it is not up to my doctor to decide what an acceptable level of risk is for an me. None of this even touches upon the perverse incentives, political and financial, to get a "working" vaccine shipped ASAP. There's no reason to believe that the establishment, which has been granted legal immunity for this vaccine, will be entirely and rapidly forthcoming if there are severe negative side effects.