If you don't trust pharmaceutical companies...

[Alana]

... they have a cure :)

From The Onion:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/46032/print/

Wonder Drug Inspires Deep, Unwavering Love Of Pharmaceutical Companies
March 6, 2006 | Issue 42-10

NEW YORK-The Food and Drug Administration today approved the sale of the drug PharmAmorin, a prescription tablet developed by Pfizer to treat chronic distrust of large prescription-drug manufacturers.

Pfizer executives characterized the FDA's approval as a "godsend" for sufferers of independent-thinking-related mental-health disorders.


PharmAmorin, now relieving distrust of large pharmaceutical conglomerates in pharmacies nationwide.
"Many individuals today lack the deep, abiding affection for drug makers that is found in healthy people, such as myself," Pfizer CEO Hank McKinnell said. "These tragic disorders are reaching epidemic levels, and as a company dedicated to promoting the health, well-being, and long life of our company's public image, it was imperative that we did something to combat them."

Although many psychotropic drugs impart a generalized feeling of well-being, PharmAmorin is the first to induce and focus intense feelings of affection externally, toward for-profit drug makers. Pfizer representatives say that, if taken regularly, PharmAmorin can increase affection for and trust in its developers by as much as 96.5 percent.

"Out of a test group of 180, 172 study participants reported a dramatic rise in their passion for pharmaceutical companies," said Pfizer director of clinical research Suzanne Frost. "And 167 asked their doctors about a variety of prescription medications they had seen on TV."

Frost said a small percentage of test subjects showed an interest in becoming lobbyists for one of the top five pharmaceutical companies, and several browsed eBay for drug-company apparel.

PharmAmorin, available in 100-, 200-, and 400-mg tablets, is classified as a critical-thinking inhibitor, a family of drugs that holds great promise for the estimated 20 million Americans who suffer from Free-Thinking Disorder.

Pfizer will also promote PharmAmorin in an aggressive, $34.6 million print and televised ad campaign.

One TV ad, set to debut during next Sunday's 60 Minutes telecast, shows a woman relaxing in her living room and reading a newspaper headlined "Newest Drug Company Scandal Undermines Public Trust." The camera zooms into the tangled neural matter of her brain, revealing a sticky black substance and a purplish gas.

The narrator says, "She may show no symptoms, but in her brain, irrational fear and dislike of global pharmaceutical manufacturers is overwhelming her very peace of mind."

After a brief summary of PharmAmorin's benefits, the commercial concludes with the woman flying a kite across a sunny green meadow, the Pfizer headquarters gleaming in the background.

PharmAmorin is the first drug of its kind, but Pfizer will soon face competition from rival pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb. The company is developing its own pro-pharmaceutical-company medication, Brismysquibicin, which will induce warm feelings not just for drug corporations in general, but solely for Bristol-Myers Squibb.

"A PharmAmorin user could find himself gravitating toward the products of a GlaxoSmithKline or Eli Lilly," BMS spokesman Andrew Fike said. "This could seriously impede the patient's prescription-drug-market acceptance, or worse, Pfizer's profits in the long run."

"Brismysquibicin will be cheaper to produce and therefore far more affordable to those on fixed incomes," Fike added.

The news of an affordable skepticism-inhibitor was welcomed by New York physician Christine Blake-Mann, who runs a free clinic in Spanish Harlem.

"A lot of my patients are very leery of the medical establishment," Blake-Mann said. "This will help them feel better about it, and save money at the same time."

PharmAmorin's side effects include nausea, upset stomach, and ignoring the side effects of prescription drug medication.

 

[Magnolia]

Unbekoming substack posted an article titled Extraction: The Middle Class as Colony. While the information replicates much of what has been posted on this forum, the foundational argument is an interesting take on the situation.

The basic premise is that colonialism never ended, it only shifted its target population and refined its methods.
The middle class is now being "mined" for its accumulated wealth through deliberate and systematic deterioration of health, followed by the imposition of costly medical interventions. A few points from the article:

1. The essay draws on Dr. Toby Rogers testimony before the U.S. Senate in 2025.
2. Dr. Rogers introduced the concept of biological colonialism: the transformation of the world’s middle class into an extraction zone, their bodies into territories to be mined, their accumulated wealth into resources to be systematically transferred to pharmaceutical shareholders -- including pension funds, home equity, retirement accounts, and savings.
3. The body—its vulnerabilities, its capacity for malfunction, its owner’s terror of death—represents an infinitely renewable extraction site. It can generate extraction opportunities continuously from birth until death. Better still, each extraction can create the conditions for further extraction.
4. The systematic extraction of wealth from a target population through the deliberate creation of chronic illness is predictable. First acute symptoms (often dismissed or misdiagnosed), then the diagnostic odyssey: specialists, tests, imaging, biopsies. Then chronic management: cardiologists, rheumatologists, neurologists, each prescribing medications that generate new symptoms requiring new specialists. Insurance covers less over time as conditions become pre-existing.
5. Allopathic interventions including toxic vaccines, SSRIs, statins, etc., provide "cures" with calculated "side-effects" that will create an endless stream of income for pharma shareholders.
6. The pharmaceutical industry has also completed colonization of all medical knowledge production (Epistemic Capture)—including what gets researched, how it is studied, what counts as evidence, what gets published. When you capture regulation, you influence decisions. When you capture epistemology, you control reality itself.
7. Mechanisms for discrediting resistance are thoroughly planned: e.g., preventing pattern recognition, ideological cover, social enforcement.
8. Safer, less costly, and less invasive alternatives to conventional allopathic treatments continue to be discouraged. It started a long time ago when the Rockefeller Institute, funded by Standard Oil money, set out to transform American medicine into an instrument for selling petroleum-based drugs. Abraham Flexner’s 1910 report shut down half of America’s medical schools—particularly those teaching homeopathy, naturopathy, and toxicology.
9. The author posits DDT was the toxic poisoning that was labelled "polio." He notes polio was not contagious, and when DDT usage was reduced (because it was killing cows), polio cases dropped 2/3.
10. The author questions the antibody theory underlying vaccination, stating antibodies mark exposure; they do not confer protection. Many with high antibody levels fall ill while those without antibodies remain healthy. The entire concept of vaccine-induced immunity is fiction.
11. The medical industry essentially manufactures iatrogenocide: death caused by medical treatment, at scale, systematically, for profit.
12. He concludes: The middle class was never meant to be a colony. The human body was never meant to be a mine. Children were never meant to be processed into lifetime customers. The transformation of medicine from healing to extraction represents a fundamental violation—of ethics, of law, of the relationship between human beings who should be bound by trust.
    That violation is now visible. What is visible can be named. What is named can be refused. What is refused can be replaced.