This is not entirely correct. No pharma company has enough money to buy all doctors, nor do they need to. They buy some of the respected academic and research doctors, just enough for their purposes. Doctors are dependant upon scientific study of the whole field and until recently accepted the scholarly papers printed in the once highly respected journals. Even the most simple knowledge is far too complicated for any one person to do basic study of much, let alone all that is needed to treat patients. In my field the doubling time of new "knowledge" was 5 years. That means that 5 years after I retired I knew ½ of the accepted facts. Now I would not have adequate basic knowledge to start a specialist training course, even if I had remembered everything I knew when I retired 11 years ago.
Then there is the added evil of regulatory agencies that strike doctors off professional registers for not practicing in the approved way. Approved by whom? you may ask. NOT defined, but highly influenced by "research" done by pharmaceutical companies since there is no other source of the enormous amounts of money needed for any research.
A kicker is for the last few years Soros has been paying "influencers" to stir the pot of the internet with any insults against learned professions to increase anxiety and panic, and decrease trust in accepted norms of Society.
Control/Ownership is made by carrot/stick motivation against all doctors directly
Control/Ownership is made by carrot/stick motivation via 3rd party intermediary like regulators, journals and academia, that in turn control doctors directly
Then its correct that these are disparate. Its also correct that they are really dont have different outcomes, nor different motivations, nor different means of exerting control and punishing dissenters, nor different perpetrator and victim groups. Regulatory capture V direct ideological capture I guess is another way of putting it.
A lack of trust is an immune-system reaction to noticing that trust has been undermined and eroded to achieve malicious ends, and that any remaining misplaced trust is leveraged to harm those extending said trust.
Like random wealth in the hands of politicians, journalists, country commissioners, police chiefs, judges and prosecutors that cant be accounted for is what DOGE has yielded. All these lit fuses, all burning down to a fiery end, all leading back to arch pilferers and bandit kings and slave lords.. this can is not being kicked down the road, its breaking the foot of the kicker and then going to town on the rest of them starting with their extremities.
This is not entirely correct. No pharma company has enough money to buy all doctors, nor do they need to. They buy some of the respected academic and research doctors, just enough for their purposes. Doctors are dependant upon scientific study of the whole field and until recently accepted the scholarly papers printed in the once highly respected journals. Even the most simple knowledge is far too complicated for any one person to do basic study of much, let alone all that is needed to treat patients. In my field the doubling time of new "knowledge" was 5 years. That means that 5 years after I retired I knew ½ of the accepted facts. Now I would not have adequate basic knowledge to start a specialist training course, even if I had remembered everything I knew when I retired 11 years ago. Then there is the added evil of regulatory agencies that strike doctors off professional registers for not practicing in the approved way. Approved by whom? you may ask. NOT defined, but highly influenced by "research" done by pharmaceutical companies since there is no other source of the enormous amounts of money needed for any research. A kicker is for the last few years Soros has been paying "influencers" to stir the pot of the internet with any insults against learned professions to increase anxiety and panic, and decrease trust in accepted norms of Society.
I have just seen this essay that slots into this discussion:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/03/27/science-magazine-unfairly-attacks-the-journal-of-the-academy-of-public-health/
If we have the two scenarios -
Then its correct that these are disparate. Its also correct that they are really dont have different outcomes, nor different motivations, nor different means of exerting control and punishing dissenters, nor different perpetrator and victim groups. Regulatory capture V direct ideological capture I guess is another way of putting it.
A lack of trust is an immune-system reaction to noticing that trust has been undermined and eroded to achieve malicious ends, and that any remaining misplaced trust is leveraged to harm those extending said trust.
Like random wealth in the hands of politicians, journalists, country commissioners, police chiefs, judges and prosecutors that cant be accounted for is what DOGE has yielded. All these lit fuses, all burning down to a fiery end, all leading back to arch pilferers and bandit kings and slave lords.. this can is not being kicked down the road, its breaking the foot of the kicker and then going to town on the rest of them starting with their extremities.