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This is the internet age. Anecdotal reporting is accurate and easily accessible in an aggregate way, and it's important to do so at this point in history when there is financial and political bias in drug companies. I strongly recommend you watch the documentary I posted. I know you won't, but you should. It's not just lay people weighing in but medical professionals as well.
If you only take drugs based on what data says while not considering other people's experience reports, then I feel sorry for you. Whenever a new drug is suggested to me I read the research and also search the internet for what people said the drug did to them. I don't know why anyone in this day and age wouldn't do that and would choose to blindly follow research alone when there is such an abundance of alternative points of view available. I am doubly vigilant when it comes to my children.
That's simply not true. I have an auto-immune disease and with my particular disease, the rates in North America have increased 300% in the past 12 years alone. By 2025 auto-immune will be an epidemic in the United States. Genetics is the smoke and mirror approach to stringing people along with corporately funded research. Environment (including pharmaceuticals) and food systems are the #1 suspect, in actual fact. Less than 1% of people with auto-immune disease have known genetic markers upon testing, across the board: whether it's MS, IBD, CFS, etc. They usually have a parent or grandparent with the same condition.
What? The U.S. government spends huge amounts of money on the flu vaccine yearly, and it has a negligible impact on stopping the flu. It spent billions of dollars on the tamiflu vaccine, for example, following the H1N1 scare. That's government money that went right into private hands. Not only did the vaccine not stop the epidemic, people suffered adverse effects from it.
Vaccines are hugely profitable, so much so that the clinical trial periods are getting shorter and shorter. The ADR reporting is also getting more and more scarce. There is an obvious move to shorten the turnaround time between the creation of drugs and sending them to market, along with suppression of reporting systems so that drugs appear safer than they actually are. If you look at the historical clinical research periods for the classical vaccines, they took upwards of a decade before they hit the market. Now the turnaround time is 6 months to 1 year in the United States.
As I said previously, some vaccines are tried, tested and true. That doesn't mean all vaccines are good. You can't just lump all vaccines into one category. Each one has a different methodology, different testing procedures, and different historical research. The newer vaccines like Guardasil have the least amount of research backing them. Guardasil had no longevity studies whatsoever when it went to market, which is insane. It's the first HPV vaccine ever and the biggest longitudinal study done on it was 6 months post-vaccination. They are rushed through clinical trials that are conducted by the companies who make them rather than independent review (which used to be the case), and agencies like the FDA have clear conflicts of interest based on some of those companies having members on the board.
As for antibiotics, they were good in the short term, but may prove hazardous to humanity. Now we have virulent pathogens that gradually can't be treated by modern medicine. A woman in my community died from MRSA three weeks ago because her catheter got infected with it at the hospital. Dying of staph, in the year 2017. Unbelievable.
The #1 problem with medical research in the United States and Europe right now is that it's now all corporate. So pardon me if I don't swallow studies whole, "because science".
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