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The pharmaceutical industry continues as a giant, blood sucking, vampire squid because of IP.
by willmadden 3y ago
The pharmaceutical industry continues as a giant, blood sucking, vampire squid because of IP.
- NoZebra120vClip 3y ago> The pharmaceutical industry continues as a giant, blood sucking, vampire squid because of IP. Let's be honest here. In order to get that way, they needed to stomp out and eradicate every trace of "evidence" that natural medicine was efficacious, because herbs, botanicals, and other natural substances can't be patented, can't be synthesized in factories, and can't be exploited for profit at megascale. If word ever leaked out that, for example, selenium, valerian root or St. John's wort were equivalent/better than synthetic, patented medications, we'd all be in trouble.
- BobaFloutist 3y agoI can buy valerian root tea at multinational grocery store. The problem with supplements isn't that they're disenfranchised, and it's not even that they strictly don't work. It's that the huge businesses that make tons of money off of them have so aggressively resisted regulation based on effectiveness, or even contents, that you can't count on what you're buying not poisoning you, let alone helping. And I'd love to see a natural replacement for insulin that doesn't kill people, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't exist. So maybe pharmaceutical technology does a few things that natural remedies can't?
- willmadden 3y ago>And I'd love to see a natural replacement for insulin that doesn't kill people, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't exist. No sugar, no alcohol, low carbohydrate diets are the answer to the diabetes epidemic. If you want to regulate something, start with the corporations marketing processed, poisoned garbage to people as "food" and "beverages".
- BobaFloutist 3y agoI don't think that works on people that already have diabetes, and have had it since birth.