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Borg nanoprobes, anyone?

• benevol 4y ago
  • Nursie 4y ago
    You can say that about basically any industry. As such it's not a particularly interesting comment.
    • boffinAudio 4y ago
      What industry lies to the people it is supposed to be making healthier with their products, time and time again, covering up facts in order to protect a billion-dollar continuing revenue stream that is derived entirely on the principle of addiction? Tell me again which industries outright own the media groups reporting on their failings/not reporting on their failings? There is nothing comparable to the Big Pharma's influence over Western society, by any stretch of the imagination.
      • Nursie 4y ago
        > What industry lies to the people it is supposed to be making healthier with their products, Many. > time and time again, covering up facts in order to protect a billion-dollar continuing revenue stream Many. > that is derived entirely on the principle of addiction? Wait, are we talking tobacco? Coffee? Facebook? > Tell me again which industries outright own the media groups reporting on their failings/not reporting on their failings? Big pharma owns the newspapers now? > There is nothing comparable to the Big Pharma's influence over Western society, by any stretch of the imagination. Fossil fuels, easily. Have there been bad actors, bad decisions, evil people? Yep, in every walk of life. Writing off entire industries because of it is myopic. Calling out pharma as worse than all others is just nonsense.
        • boffinAudio 4y ago
          Big Pharma has ruined more lives for the sake of insane profit-making than almost any other industry, except perhaps the military industrial complex. >Big pharma owns the newspapers now? Why .. Yes, indeed .. haven't you been paying attention? https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/blackrock-vanguard-own-big-pharma-media/ https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/blackrock-vangua...
          • Nursie 4y ago
            "The Defender" is a quack site and that article is conspiracy theory bullcrap. You might want to get your 'news' somewhere else, and try to think a little more critically about where you pick up information. "Big Pharma" has issues, and could do with tighter regulation, especially in the USA. Other countries manage it. And none of that means we throw out good science and good medical products like vaccines.
            • boffinAudio 4y ago
              Do you really think a criminal organization such as Pfizer doesn't have its own propaganda fund? This is a company that knowingly lied to its users about the efficacy and dangers of its drugs, and opted to cover it up and eventually pay a billion dollar fine, rather than actually address their failings. Blind faith in authoritarian institutions is not a good way to direct public health policy - especially when those institutions have a long and sordid track record of human rights abuses and outright criminal behaviour.
              • Nursie 4y ago
• b3lvedere 4y ago
  I must admit that was one of my first thoughts when i read the word nanoparticle. :)