Is Modern Medicine Healing People orManufacturing Customers?

[Valentina Amante]

Let’s try this again.
Since a few members couldn’t handle dissent on my last thread and derailed it until it got locked, things will be different this time.

This thread is NOT for petty arguments, ego battles, or endless back-and-forths about who wants to be right.

This is about what you think, not what some headline tells you to think.

- No screenshots of articles
- No links
- No quotes from “official sources”

It is strictly for sharing your own thoughts, opinions, and experiences - especially regarding new science, medicine, and the industries behind them.

- Do you believe Big Pharma genuinely prioritizes patients’ health and well-being?
- Do you believe that mainstream media and Big Pharma work hand in hand?
- Do you think that MSM sells the narrative and that Pharma sells the product?
- Do you trust or use holistic approaches to health?
- Do you put your whole trust into modern medicine?

Questioning either shouldn’t make you the enemy - it should make you informed.

We’re here to exchange perspectives, not to regurgitate scripted headlines or silence others who dare to challenge them or have questions.

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[Tor1393]

Modern medicine is definately helping people and yes they are also looking for customers.
The two are not mutually exclusive.
patients are very finicky. They want what they want.
They often prefer a quick fix.
they expect good results
and they want it now.

Medicine is big big business. But they are trying to help people.
Tor

 

[philonius]

This is what I feel like but I'll engage it as earnestly as I can, if only to get my opinion out, since we're not going to deal in facts here:

Medical science is better now than ever before in human history, despite recent growing distrust, because scientific research OVERALL is approaching a singularity of sorts. In the next 50 years we will have cured the majority of major illnesses and disease that has plagued us since we learned to walk on two feet. Just look at what has been accomplished in the last 50 years.

The problem is that this research is continuously being co-opted and controlled by financial interests that have nothing to do with science and medicine. This, combined with a constant deluge of noise masquerading as information, where facts become annoying to how I FEEL, makes us stupid and fearful - which is precisely what these financial interests want. We deride people who devote their life to scientific pursuits, shame higher education, and look down on people who are experts (through knowledge and experience) and put their recommendations on par with talking heads and podcasters. We have allowed our institutions to be belittled because they tell me things I don't want to hear, like that if we keep being ignorant of our world, it will eventually become unlivable to us.

All this is the product of people who stand to make money. Not your local GP, or the guy working in the lab down the street for $25/hr, or the tenured professor with a lifetime of experience and knowledge, but these are the people we are told to be wary of, and everyone associated with them (the local news reporter, the city councilperson that votes for smart scientific policy, etc), but rather the C-suite execs you never see or hear of (until one gets murdered in the street). That's why there's so much division right now - division is profitable.

Good news is that it seems to me that the problem we have with modern medicine (you and me both probably) is the same. It's called late-stage capitalism, and unfortunately the cure will likely hurt more than the symptoms while we watch them get worse.