How Medicine™ Incentivized Bad Covid Science
How Medicine™ Incentivized Bad Covid Science
It is usually in retrospect that we speak about the financial incentives that underlie decades of bad 'science' and medical opinion, such as with smoking or cholesterol. But, what about covid?
Brief History of Bad Medicine™
For over a century, the Western public has struggled with obtaining reliable and accurate medical opinion from the doctors in whose hands they have placed their well-being.
This, in my opinion, is a natural consequence of the lucrative nature of healthcare. Where there is a lot of money, there are ample opportunities for corruption.
Some of the most famous examples of these practices having widespread impact on the population have been with pro-smoking campaigns, dietary recommendations, and lead in combustible fuel or indoor paint. More recently, we have come to learn about all of the shady and corrupting practices that pharmaceutical companies have undertaken to push the widespread use of opioids as painkillers.
We are currently in the midst of propaganda campaigns that continue to be perpetrated on the population, for example in the form of “cholesterol is bad, now take this Statin.”
But the clock on this scam is coming to an end, and I get the sense that by the end of this decade we will look at it like another pro-smoking campaign.
But, what about covid? Covid the disease? The covid vaccine?
What’s the story behind this campaign?
As someone who published several peer-reviewed articles in 2020, I am starting to see parallels between what happened this decade and in the prior century.