Pharma ad revenue comprises a HUGE slice of MSM revenue.
But the bigger story is online revenue--industry numbers I saw show that Pharma will spend TWENTY BILLION on online ads this year...and another 3-4 billion on other media buys.
The statin drug industry is so huge that back in the 80's, when it was determined by a board of medical professionals that the side effects far outweighed any benefit and should be discontinued, it wasn't because of the billions made each year.
I learned about this in 2000 when the love of my life was diagnosed with "hypercholesteremia" (I think that was the term, based on ONE TEST) and the doc was writing out a statins prescription. I advised we ignore it, then went a-digging and learned a lot about statins, cholesterol, etc. I always knew that the cholesterol thing was problematic, and that was also the year that Gary Taubes published this piece in /Science/, which saved me a lot more digging and was a great summary for my love, the engineer:
We talked that and other stuff over, then put my darling on an ancestral diet of organic grass butter (had to make this at home) and cheese, pastured cream and whole milk, meat with the fat on, pastured eggs, northern latitude vegetables only, and cut out anything that didn't fit with that diet.
Within 12 weeks the sinus infections relented, 35 lbs of Deskwork Flab came off (no additional exercise), joint pain went away, other things regularized including sleep, and the next "blood test" showed "cholesterol" levels in the blood down to within 1/2 SD of what they called "normal." (Yeah, I asked what the standard deviations were, and asked for a description of the research methods that was based on; talk about becoming a Problem Patient Family Member in a nanosecond).
The devastation done to people's health by Pharma is mind boggling. Nothing terrifies me so much as the prospect of being forced into that system against my will. What I've seen inside it, these past four years with myself and caring for others, makes me think of gulag tales of the early 20th century. Cleaner, and with climate control and artwork on the walls...but basically a hellmouth automated factory that harvests and manages suffering for profit. And gloats, and demands worship as high priests of "healing."
The book "The Clot Thickens" was written by a medical doctor who studied heart disease for 40 years. It's a pretty technical book, but really lays out the truth of heart disease and contributing factors, with genetics being number 1. In that book the scam of statins was discussed. I have a compromised liver because I took a prescription medication for toenail fungus 25 years ago, that was known to have potential liver effects, and called for a blood test to determine if that was happening. After the second of a once-a-month pill, I developed hepatitis, and have had a compromised liver since. I asked the doctor why she didn't test for it, and she said, "I thought it was such a rare side-effect that I didn't think it warranted doing the test". I only wish I had been as aware back then of how bad the medical profession is. I'm almost convinced that NO medications, other than antibiotics (which have knocked out two tick-born infections from me, among other things), are worth taking.
Big if true/happens.
Pharma ad revenue comprises a HUGE slice of MSM revenue.
But the bigger story is online revenue--industry numbers I saw show that Pharma will spend TWENTY BILLION on online ads this year...and another 3-4 billion on other media buys.
Utterly appalling.
The statin drug industry is so huge that back in the 80's, when it was determined by a board of medical professionals that the side effects far outweighed any benefit and should be discontinued, it wasn't because of the billions made each year.
YES.
I learned about this in 2000 when the love of my life was diagnosed with "hypercholesteremia" (I think that was the term, based on ONE TEST) and the doc was writing out a statins prescription. I advised we ignore it, then went a-digging and learned a lot about statins, cholesterol, etc. I always knew that the cholesterol thing was problematic, and that was also the year that Gary Taubes published this piece in /Science/, which saved me a lot more digging and was a great summary for my love, the engineer:
The soft science of dietary fat
https://www.nasw.org/sites/default/files/awards/The_soft_science.pdf
We talked that and other stuff over, then put my darling on an ancestral diet of organic grass butter (had to make this at home) and cheese, pastured cream and whole milk, meat with the fat on, pastured eggs, northern latitude vegetables only, and cut out anything that didn't fit with that diet.
Within 12 weeks the sinus infections relented, 35 lbs of Deskwork Flab came off (no additional exercise), joint pain went away, other things regularized including sleep, and the next "blood test" showed "cholesterol" levels in the blood down to within 1/2 SD of what they called "normal." (Yeah, I asked what the standard deviations were, and asked for a description of the research methods that was based on; talk about becoming a Problem Patient Family Member in a nanosecond).
The devastation done to people's health by Pharma is mind boggling. Nothing terrifies me so much as the prospect of being forced into that system against my will. What I've seen inside it, these past four years with myself and caring for others, makes me think of gulag tales of the early 20th century. Cleaner, and with climate control and artwork on the walls...but basically a hellmouth automated factory that harvests and manages suffering for profit. And gloats, and demands worship as high priests of "healing."
The book "The Clot Thickens" was written by a medical doctor who studied heart disease for 40 years. It's a pretty technical book, but really lays out the truth of heart disease and contributing factors, with genetics being number 1. In that book the scam of statins was discussed. I have a compromised liver because I took a prescription medication for toenail fungus 25 years ago, that was known to have potential liver effects, and called for a blood test to determine if that was happening. After the second of a once-a-month pill, I developed hepatitis, and have had a compromised liver since. I asked the doctor why she didn't test for it, and she said, "I thought it was such a rare side-effect that I didn't think it warranted doing the test". I only wish I had been as aware back then of how bad the medical profession is. I'm almost convinced that NO medications, other than antibiotics (which have knocked out two tick-born infections from me, among other things), are worth taking.