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  • pononimous@lemmy.mltoPolitics@lemmy.ml•Vaccine hesitancy is a symptom of people’s broken relationship with the state | Nesrine Malik
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    3 years ago

    Blaming the victim of rushed and botched science and medicines approved by the FDA without completing extensive and full testing for safety and efficacy is incredibly lazy! Seeing as you haven’t bothered to do at least a little research on this, allow me to fill you in on a little medical and political history; since it’s very beginnings, the Food and Drug Administration has always been under the influence of very powerful drug lobbies in Washington. This has resulted in some tremendous medical disasters, the most horrendous of those being the Thalidomide disaster of the early 1960s.

    If you’ve never heard of Thalidomide or don’t know what it is, you can read about it here (providing you’re not too lazy to click a link:)

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21507989/

    The German pharmacological firm, Gruenenthal, discovered the chemical composition of Thalidomide in the mid 1950s and, after some testing, discovered that it appeared to be an effective treatment for nausea in pregnant women. They quickly went into production and international distribution of the drug but they hit a wall; the United States would not allow the drug to be used within its borders without substantial and effective testing. Investigating their options, Gruenenthal quickly discovered that their best option was to establish a very powerful pharmacological lobby in the US Congress, which they did. Thanks to pressure from that lobby Gruenenthal was able to get FDA approval for US Distribution and sales of Thalidomide by 1958.

    US Doctors were then pressured to prescribe Thalidomide to their pregnant female patients as much as possible to maximize Gruenenthal sales. This is what led to the Thalidomide Baby Disaster.

    By 1961 mothers began giving birth to horribly deformed babies in epidemic numbers and an investigation was launched November of that year. The investigation wasn’t completed until August of 1963 and, after substantial congressional debates, Thalidomide was banned in the United states in April of 1964 and Gruenenthal was fined 1.5 million dollars for failing to do proper research on their own drugs. The FDA was not fined.

    This should give you all insight into how easily the FDA is manipulated and even controlled by lobbies in Congress and the corrupt congressmen and women who allow such lobbies to control an agency that has our very lives in its hands.

    There are other things I could mention here, too; such as the Berkeley Labs Polio Vaccine Disaster which resulted in over 2.5 million new polio cases and 100,000 polio deaths or the or the Methadone Disaster (a drug for the treatment of heroine addiction, which was distributed in the 1970s) which has, to this date, ended up killing almost 99 percent of all of those who took it, usually by brain hemorrhages and strokes.

    So, next time you think of posting something which lazily and nastily accuses the victims of greedy and corrupt lobbyists consider that there are a whole lot of people in this world who know a whole lot more than you do.

  • pononimous@lemmy.mltoAnnouncements@lemmy.ml•new community: 阴阳师 onmyoji
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    3 years ago

    相信大家都知道，共产党中国的普通公民是不允许上网的。 他们不能在中国以外的互联网上。 只有官方的共产党代理人和操作员才能使用国际互联网。 这就是你如何知道，如果这些人说他们来自中国或从中国带来一些东西，你根本不能相信他们！ 无论出于何种原因！ 曾经！

  • pononimous@lemmy.mltoAnnouncements@lemmy.ml•New community: Open Educational Resources
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    3 years ago

    One must always be careful with such things. These days “educational” usually means some form of indoctrination or brainwashing. It also usually means a curriculum that promotes and fosters a student attitude of blind acceptance of whatever is presented to them in the classroom, no matter how insane or ridiculous it might actually be. One very clear and precise example of this was a Muslim Cleric who, using Marxist indoctrination tactics on his followers, blatantly (and ridiculously) told them, “it has been scientifically proven that men having sex with goats is what causes Earthquakes.” His followers blindly accepted this without question and embraced it as if it were scientifically true and proven. This is also the case with most Marxist / Leninist indoctrination; those who are subjected to it are taught to not think for themselves but to blindly accept whatever is presented to them as if it were good for them even though it destroys them as human beings and persons and turns them into mindless zombie drones who will follow whatever orders the State gives them. I fully expect to be banned from this site for this post by the blind, indoctrinated, bigoted and narrow minded individuals who run it. If that’s the case then it’s no big deal for me since it is nothing but a demonstration that I am better off elsewhere, anyway.