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It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall, I Really Don’t Know Health at All

Mad in America

FDA approves Food and Drugs—on the basis of assays. Academics even boast that EBM shackles the pharmaceutical industry. They police advertisements claims but policing the medical literature is not their job. No longer in the business of demonstrating their drug saved lives or got people back to work. What’s an Assay?

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Medication Overload, Part II: The Explosion of Drugs for Kids

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Despite evidence of the dangerous nature of this product, along with mounting pressure from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and child safety advocates, the aspirin industry denied any negligence on their part and instead blamed the reported safety concerns on poor parenting. Which is exactly what happened with children’s aspirin.

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

Mad in America

In these interviews, I have talked about the components of the psychiatric-pharmaceutical-industrial complex, along with how psychiatry meets the political needs of the ruling class and dysfunctional families. Mainstream media is another major player in the psychiatric-pharmaceutical-industrial complex. By 2019, Big Pharma’s $6.6