By now people might realize that more likely than not, if you see something advertised on Facebook, it is probably not what you think you are going to receive. That the phone call you receive with a person on the other end with a strong foreign accent is not going to give you anything while asking for your credit card for shipping. That the emails you receive demanding that you pay the IRS a lot of money are not really from the IRS. Etc. We live in a world of fraud. Sometimes I think it is our gross national product. But we can live with it, so it seems.
What about medical fraud? Can we live with that? From 2013 to 2022 it was discovered that a total of 12.13 billion dollars in payments were made to 826,313 medical providers. 93.8% of these payments were for marketable medical products. That means there are some financial conflicts of interest regarding your health. Another source states that pharma and medical device companies paid that amount just in 2024 based upon stats from Medicare.
The great Emmy award winning reporter, Sharyl Attkisson stated, “Some of the most prestigious medical journals in the world are the source of biased or even incorrect medical information at the highest levels. Information that’s distributed to our doctors and medical institutions, where it’s then used to mistreat and sometimes harm us”. It is apparent that these medical journals have been taken hostage by big pharma. The journals get at least 50% of their income from drug advertising revenues. The research for these drugs is designed by the drug company, not the FDA. The FDA’s job is to approve it and often after tens of thousands of injuries the drug has to be cancelled.
I’m not going to even bother to mention the multiple examples of omitted data, improprieties, undisclosed payments and other conflicts of interest many of which when discovered, ultimately caused papers to be retracted. Sorry, it seems I did mention it. Hopefully the people that state that we must trust the science never get ill.
