{"id":2676,"date":"2011-06-02T08:46:33","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T22:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=2676"},"modified":"2011-06-02T08:46:33","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T22:46:33","slug":"facts-of-life-drug-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=2676","title":{"rendered":"Facts of Life &#8211; Drug Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most people are mostly honest. Being honest they are often not suspicious of the motives of others. They listen to the news and read the papers believing what they are told, they buy groceries at the supermarket and assume it will feed them, they mostly assume all is as it seems, it is mostly well with the world. Unfortunately, this kills them. I don&#8217;t say this to be dramatic. It is literally the truth.<br \/>\nWhy is there so much societal pressure to get rid of vitamin, mineral and herbal supplements from the establishment?<br \/>\nDrug companies want to make money.<br \/>\nThey make money by you taking their vaccines and drugs, whether or not they work or not, whether or not they harm, maim or kill.<br \/>\nThey get you to administer their vaccinations to your kids by playing on your desire as a parent to do what is best for your children and help them avoid sickness.<br \/>\nThey get you to take their drugs by teaching the medical profession to prescribe them when you are sick or by making you think you are sick so you asking for a &#8220;cure&#8221;.<br \/>\nIs it profitable for them to cure you?<br \/>\nNo.<br \/>\nIs it profitable for them to promote natural cures?<br \/>\nNo.<br \/>\nIs it profitable for them to suppress natural cures?<br \/>\nYes.<br \/>\nIs it profitable for them if you are healthy?<br \/>\nNo.<br \/>\nIs it profitable if a drug &#8220;cures&#8221; you?<br \/>\nNo.<br \/>\nIt is most profitable for them to have you on multiple medications from conception to the grave.<br \/>\nWould someone who wanted to profit from selling you a false hope tell you they were going to tell you lies?<br \/>\nNo.<br \/>\nWould they tell lies about the perceived or real &#8220;competition&#8221; to get you to buy their false cure?<br \/>\nYes.<br \/>\nIf you were an unethical drug company executive and you wanted to increase your company&#8217;s profits, would you:<br \/>\nExert a little financial pressure to legislate out of existence the more beneficial &#8220;competition&#8221; from natural therapies?<br \/>\nPressure researchers to fudge the results of their &#8220;scientific&#8221; studies in your favour?<br \/>\nHide negative research results when submitting applications for a new drug to the regulatory authority?<br \/>\nYou bet your health they do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people are mostly honest. Being honest they are often not suspicious of the motives of others. They listen to the news and read the papers believing what they are told, they buy groceries at the supermarket and assume it will feed them, they mostly assume all is as it seems, it is mostly well &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=2676\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Facts of Life &#8211; Drug Companies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}