Marrena
Critical Thinker
- Joined
- Sep 1, 2004
- Messages
- 321
I find it fascinating that the same spirit of scientific skepticism leveled against my science was completely dropped in another thread when I showed that the pharmaceutical industry's two biggest cash cows, antidepressants and hormonal birth control, are snake oil.
The pharmaceutical companies themselves have admitted that they only have anecdotal evidence for efficacy of antidepressants, while covering up some pretty serious side effects, including increasing suicidal tendencies. And they have also effectively hidden the serious side effect of decreased libido for a large minority of women who take hormonal birth control, while so indoctrinating doctors into the necessity of women taking it that if a woman requests a cervical cap or diaphragm or non-hormonal IUD, she generally meets with a strong negative reaction.
Just those two types of medications net pharmaceutical companies over $16 billion a year, and yet the big hullabaloo on this site is yoga or acupuncture or whatnot. How on earth can medical science be seen as impartial when Big Pharma have so utterly corrupted it?
This place is useful for dispelling woo thoughts, which is why I keep coming back here every so often. Psychic powers, faeries, talking to the dead--it's great that this place gets rid of the flim-flam. But when it comes to medical science, really, believing that the state of American medical research is credible or unbiased is an act of faith that would make a snake handler blush. European medical research is in much better shape, and the German Commission E I'm sure would make many posters here apoplectic (although with the number of sceptics, I assume there are many Europeans posting here).
So enough with this place. And please examine your own beliefs in the purity of scientific research with the same anal scrutiny you give to every deluded woo yahoo who comes a-posting.
The pharmaceutical companies themselves have admitted that they only have anecdotal evidence for efficacy of antidepressants, while covering up some pretty serious side effects, including increasing suicidal tendencies. And they have also effectively hidden the serious side effect of decreased libido for a large minority of women who take hormonal birth control, while so indoctrinating doctors into the necessity of women taking it that if a woman requests a cervical cap or diaphragm or non-hormonal IUD, she generally meets with a strong negative reaction.
Just those two types of medications net pharmaceutical companies over $16 billion a year, and yet the big hullabaloo on this site is yoga or acupuncture or whatnot. How on earth can medical science be seen as impartial when Big Pharma have so utterly corrupted it?
This place is useful for dispelling woo thoughts, which is why I keep coming back here every so often. Psychic powers, faeries, talking to the dead--it's great that this place gets rid of the flim-flam. But when it comes to medical science, really, believing that the state of American medical research is credible or unbiased is an act of faith that would make a snake handler blush. European medical research is in much better shape, and the German Commission E I'm sure would make many posters here apoplectic (although with the number of sceptics, I assume there are many Europeans posting here).
So enough with this place. And please examine your own beliefs in the purity of scientific research with the same anal scrutiny you give to every deluded woo yahoo who comes a-posting.
