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@CatherineOrganic1
> Patent law in medicine means good medicines are dumped for the new and unproven
Indeed. Also there's a powerful incentive to fund research into novel chemicals or equipment that might get patents. But little or no incentive to research generic plant medicines, or non-medicinal treatments, which probably won't. Even where there's good reason to believe they might be more effective and cheaper to provide.
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Antidepressants are a great example. Every 20 years or so the dominant Antidepressants starts to be loudly criticised over safety or efficacy, and dumped. In favour of new, freshly patented drugs.
Meanwhile, vitamin D is a very effective treatment in some cases, especially for seasonal depression. But it remains chronically understudied. So not subsidised by public health systems, while novel pharmaceutical antidepressants are, despite significant evidence of harm in many cases.
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@CatherineOrganic1
> The alltrials transparency push looks good but again rules without enforcement mean nothing
The original AllTrials campaign, started by Dr Ben Goldacre, pushed for drug regulators like the FDA to ignore studies that were not registered before they began. Preventing companies from running dozens of studies behind closed doors, cherry-picking ones that make their products look good for publication and presentation to regulators. Very enforceable.
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@CatherineOrganic1
> breaking down the science of modified RNA toxicity and its inappropriate use as a 'vaccine' when it is at best a transfection
I'm not sure what this means. Care to expand?
But from your link;
"Dr. James Wilson, the lead investigator, owned stock in Genovo, the company developing the therapy, and stood to gain millions if the therapy was successful."
A classic example of the perverse incentives created by the commercialisation of biological and medical research.
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@CatherineOrganic1
> definitely not appropriate for use in organics as a veterinary vaccine, hence entering the food supply
💯%. Nothing involving genetic manipulation is appropriate in organic food or medicine production. Not without decades of noncommercial public research, in a sealed environment. To establish narrow, predictable effectiveness, and rule out unanticipated long term side effects.
Even then, the precautionary principle must be paramount.
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