Up until at least 2014, people were considering ivermectin as a literal miracle drug. But with the drug industry, it’s usefulness was no longer serving their needs for exorbitant patent driven profits. And the products they do make are increasingly toxic and ineffective; is this because most of the effective drug mechanisms have already been explored?
Possible. But I'm a pessimist... I think it's just a culture of regulatory capture. Cheaper to create a world in which the regulators are pre-disposed to approve things than it is to create drugs that work. Almost all drugs are approved on the first try and a huge # are subsequently pulled off the market. The regulators are yes men, hoping for a job in big pharma after or coveted access/grant money. Skeptics don't ever get the chance to be regulators.
True. That makes more sense. I had a doctor prescribe a relatively new drug to me, this was almost ten years ago, and it had been on the market for 2 years. He told me never, and he was quite adamant about the never, to take any drug that had not been on the market for less than 2 years, because they’re basically experimenting on us when they release them.
To paraphrase my wife's late grandfather, who was a researher in bio-medicine (Astra among others, long before the merger with Zeneca):
"There's no guaranteed return of investment in base research, so the company wants "someone else" to take the financial risk of doing real science."
Meaning all they do is re-invent and re-purpose existing well-known mechanisms, and that all original or base research must first be cleared by the accounting dep. and marketing as to ascertain probable profit. As no-one can guarantee any such profit for say a study into the make up of the cells' trying to finagle a way to give exact doses to only those groups of cells needing treatment, and no-one can guarantee that such a research programme will discover anything useful at all, it's a firm "Nope!" all the way.
That's why virtually zero new medications, treatments or similar come from western capitalist corporations nowadays: playing it safe, using rent-seeing, regulatory and business capture and every quarter must show a little more profit than the last no matter how this is achieved.
Up until at least 2014, people were considering ivermectin as a literal miracle drug. But with the drug industry, it’s usefulness was no longer serving their needs for exorbitant patent driven profits. And the products they do make are increasingly toxic and ineffective; is this because most of the effective drug mechanisms have already been explored?
Possible. But I'm a pessimist... I think it's just a culture of regulatory capture. Cheaper to create a world in which the regulators are pre-disposed to approve things than it is to create drugs that work. Almost all drugs are approved on the first try and a huge # are subsequently pulled off the market. The regulators are yes men, hoping for a job in big pharma after or coveted access/grant money. Skeptics don't ever get the chance to be regulators.
True. That makes more sense. I had a doctor prescribe a relatively new drug to me, this was almost ten years ago, and it had been on the market for 2 years. He told me never, and he was quite adamant about the never, to take any drug that had not been on the market for less than 2 years, because they’re basically experimenting on us when they release them.
I was told that many, many years ago as well. Now I have to educate tgg he e physician
To paraphrase my wife's late grandfather, who was a researher in bio-medicine (Astra among others, long before the merger with Zeneca):
"There's no guaranteed return of investment in base research, so the company wants "someone else" to take the financial risk of doing real science."
Meaning all they do is re-invent and re-purpose existing well-known mechanisms, and that all original or base research must first be cleared by the accounting dep. and marketing as to ascertain probable profit. As no-one can guarantee any such profit for say a study into the make up of the cells' trying to finagle a way to give exact doses to only those groups of cells needing treatment, and no-one can guarantee that such a research programme will discover anything useful at all, it's a firm "Nope!" all the way.
That's why virtually zero new medications, treatments or similar come from western capitalist corporations nowadays: playing it safe, using rent-seeing, regulatory and business capture and every quarter must show a little more profit than the last no matter how this is achieved.
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