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I am pretty centrist politics wise. Often criticised by one or the other side depending on the issue.
I am not anti science but I am definitely skeptical of the influence of big corporate Pharma and other corporate interests in our health decisions.
It is a fact that big Pharma identifies the financial boon of 'Preventative Medicine' the holy grail of profits. Once upon a time, not so long ago medicine was considered reactionary and something you took when you got sick. That meant the only people consuming medicine where the people who got sick. A small percent of the population at any given time.
They learned with Listerine, of all products, as the first Billion dollar break through product that you get people to use something preventatively (the fear of bad breath) and the money rolls in. As 100% of the populace can be told they need to prevent 'X'.
The next notable huge breakthrough was High Blood Pressure medicines. I don't know what the current limits are for where your doctor will strongly recommend and proscribe high blood pressure medicines but I do know they lowered that limit considerably back in the 70's (?) based on lobbying and pressure from Big Pharma backed up by a bunch of their paid for research. Now that science could be correct but I am not going to trust it based on who paid for it. Just as the science against Saturated Fats and other fats paid for by the Sugar industry to demonize healthy fats so that people would not focus on sugar, worked. I don't think you are anti-science to be skeptical.
And know this. Big Pharma is again lobbying to get the 'healthy range' for blood pressure lowered again which will instantly take a whole bunch of people who were considered healthy today and have their doctors tell them they are in need of these medications tomorrow. And beyond that it was exposed that big pharma had mapped out exactly how much money they would make per thousand people who now jump on those med's but also down to the ones who would have negative side effects to those drugs and would need other drugs to counter that and how much extra profit in those lines they would make.
So ya, if that skepticism makes me anti-science and I just don't jump to take anything they say when I am healthy, then so be it.
Do you think preventative medicine as a whole is a scam or unnecessary?