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Apr 4, 2022Liked by Modern Discontent

An excellent article. Thank you.

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Apr 4, 2022Liked by Modern Discontent

So, just sayin'. We live in a fascist police state. This is what one expects when the government and its agencies are captured by corporate interests. Corporate interest trumps the interest of people (no pun intended). Until I accepted this point of view, I was unable to understand "how this could happen". Another way of framing it is this: "why does a dog lick its ass?"

Aloha y'all

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A great companion to the bmj article, thank you! 👍🏽 I've been aware how long this problem has been occurring, which made me very skeptical of pfizers press releases about safety and efficacy.

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I just found this stack. As a request for your next investigative study, how about recent evidence of correlation between acetaminophen taken during pregnancy and neurological injury to the child. I found this absolutely amazing. Huge increase in autism ect over last 40 years.

I always thought it was pretty incredible that as the drug with the dubious distinction of responsibility for (the most cases?) of acute liver failure...it continued to be open marketed with very little public warning for this. As a psychiatric nurse I often wanted to (but didn't for obvious reasons) tell my suicidal patients "Don't use Tylenol. You probably won't die but you may need a liver transplant". (people who use pills tend to just empty the medicine cabinet).

Anyway, what other pharmaceutical has a longer, more ubiquitous history of use? (maybe aspirin, which has been discouraged for years in favor of tylenol especially in pregnant women and children).

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