On the one hand, the medical industry is tied so closely to government that they are even granted immunity for FDA approved treatments. A policy which basically assumes nobody makes mistakes.
They have made the requirements to bring a drug to market so onerous that only the very largest companies can afford it.
The regulatory infrastructure is heavily influenced by non-medical industry industries, such as the alcohol industry's non-stop lobbying to make and keep cannabis a schedule 1 drug.
This all stinks so badly my default position is to hardly trust anything coming from the establishment.
Anyone trying to make claims outside of establishment channels is generally a near lone voice that may or may not understand what they are talking about. Gauging their claims becomes very difficult as often it is not even legal for others to test their claims. I would basically have to become an expert, myself, to actually understand either side of a claim.
To make matters worse, everyone in the world is now an independent expert everywhere on everything and they can insert themselves into every conversation. I find most commonly people outside the U.S. commenting on things inside the U.S. while clearly not having one clue about how the government activities make the whole thing look and smell like a waste treatment facility.
Then people come up with the stupid terms, such as "anti-vaxxers". This term is now used against people who simply believe the government has no power force people to receive injections. Government forcing this kind of thing is going to get a bunch of people really screwed up and killed, largely because nobody anywhere in the process is ever close to being individually accountable (e.g., if somehow a court rules in favor of the harmed parties, they just get paid from tax dollars, not corporate profits, corporate assets, individual assets, and certainly no jail time for anyone).
Edit to add:
I remember reading the following quote from a parent who chose chemo for their daughter:
"We basically tortured her for two years and then she died."
On the one hand, the medical industry is tied so closely to government that they are even granted immunity for FDA approved treatments. A policy which basically assumes nobody makes mistakes.
They have made the requirements to bring a drug to market so onerous that only the very largest companies can afford it.
The regulatory infrastructure is heavily influenced by non-medical industry industries, such as the alcohol industry's non-stop lobbying to make and keep cannabis a schedule 1 drug.
This all stinks so badly my default position is to hardly trust anything coming from the establishment.
Anyone trying to make claims outside of establishment channels is generally a near lone voice that may or may not understand what they are talking about. Gauging their claims becomes very difficult as often it is not even legal for others to test their claims. I would basically have to become an expert, myself, to actually understand either side of a claim.
To make matters worse, everyone in the world is now an independent expert everywhere on everything and they can insert themselves into every conversation. I find most commonly people outside the U.S. commenting on things inside the U.S. while clearly not having one clue about how the government activities make the whole thing look and smell like a waste treatment facility.
Then people come up with the stupid terms, such as "anti-vaxxers". This term is now used against people who simply believe the government has no power force people to receive injections. Government forcing this kind of thing is going to get a bunch of people really screwed up and killed, largely because nobody anywhere in the process is ever close to being individually accountable (e.g., if somehow a court rules in favor of the harmed parties, they just get paid from tax dollars, not corporate profits, corporate assets, individual assets, and certainly no jail time for anyone).
Edit to add:
I remember reading the following quote from a parent who chose chemo for their daughter:
"We basically tortured her for two years and then she died."
It's a very different take, but it's real.