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Dee Cope's avatar

Thank you for the science and your determination to bring those respponsible to justice.

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carolyn kostopoulos's avatar

Dr. Sidney M. Wolfe, co-founder and director of Public Citizen's Health Research Group, said in his book Worst Pills, Best Pills that you should never take any pharmaceutical drug until it has been on the market for at least 7 years unless your life depends on it. in that time frame either a good safety profile would be established OR the body count would be too high to ignore. notice that it might take 7 years of serious adverse events and deaths that would be ignored and/or denied by industry and authorities and it was only when they reached obvious heights that the truth would be admitted and the drug would be removed from the market.

at least you would not be in the pile.

i've dodged many a bullet by keeping to this simple rule- a pattern i had established for myself long before i ever encountered Dr Wolfe but it's nice to have him as back up.

my cousin's wife spent a year in a wheelchair with GBS after the 1976 flu shot which was enough for me to avoid them forever.

i'm especially dismayed by formerly intelligent reasoning adults screaming that we suddenly have no ability (or right) to make decisions for ourselves because we aren't "experts" or "scientists."

simple common sense seems more than enough to me as evidenced by these basic examples:

margarine (man made) is better than butter (not). commercial baby formula (man made) is better than breast milk (not). commercial fertilizer (man made) is better for plants than compost (not). processed food (man made) is equal to or better than organic food (not).

how many times do you get to be wrong and still lay claims to infallibility?

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