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Tuesday, November 3, 2020

Medical Corruption and Industrial Complex Background, Random Stuff, and More

- until recently I didn't realise how goofy/dodgy the medical and pharmaceutical industry was. In this post, we'll take a deeper look at things:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=doctor+simpsons
The Simpsons - Best of Dr. Nick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK25upIADkY
Homer Simpson Surgery From Dr Nick Riviera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnQ8yH3nQ0c
Simpsons Histories - Dr. Nick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGbN_hSotCo
The Simpsons - Dr. Nick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_w_n-8w3IQ
The Simpsons - Dr. Nick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sePMi2dy570
The Simspons-Hi Dr.Nick! _ Neglected food prymaid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnpy3cC673o
Has capitalism turned the COVID-19 emergency into a disaster _ All Hail The Lockdown
The image of the traveling snake oil salesman of 19th century America is by now a familiar trope. It is the image of the heartless huckster who preys upon the trust of the general public to swindle them out of their hard-earned savings. With a bottle of useless tonic and the help of a plant in the audience, the snake oil salesman made a living out of lies and deceit.
In these respects, William Levingston was your average snake oil salesman.
He used a made-up title, billing himself as "Dr. Bill Levingston, Celebrated Cancer Specialist" despite being neither a doctor nor celebrated nor a cancer specialist.
He was an inveterate cheat and liar, having abandoned his first wife and their six children to start a bigamous marriage in Canada at the same time as he fathered two more children by a third woman.
And like every snake oil salesman, he had a cure-all tonic to hock. He called it Rock Oil and charged $25 a bottle for it, equivalent at the time to two months' salary for the average American worker. Claiming it could cure all but the most terminal cancers, there were always desperate souls in every town who could be duped into buying a bottle.
As near as anyone can tell, "Rock Oil" was in fact just a mixture of laxative and petroleum and had no effect whatsoever on the cancer of the poor townsfolk he conned into buying it. But "Dr. Bill" didn't have to worry about the consequences when his customers discovered they'd been had; he never stayed in any one place for very long.
Yes, in almost every respect, William Levingston was your run-of-the-mill snake oil huckster, someone who had no compunction about preying on the weak and the innocent in his pursuit of wealth and power.
There was one thing that set him apart however. His name was not in fact "Levingston." That was an identity he had assumed after being indicted for raping a girl in Cayuga in 1849. His actual name was William Avery Rockefeller, and he was the father of John D. Rockefeller, founder of the infamous Rockefeller dynasty.
The official histories of the Rockefeller family, many commissioned or approved by the Rockefellers themselves or produced by public television stations owned and managed by family members, downplay the significance of the dynasty's snake oil lineage. John D., they claim, was the opposite of his father: pious and industrious where his father had been wayward and lazy, philanthropic and generous where his father had been selfish and greedy. In reality, the apple didn't fall far from the tree and John D. learnt a lot from his father.
"Devil Bill," as the "Celebrated Dr. Bill Levingston" was also known, once bragged that "I cheat my boys every chance I get. I want to make 'em sharp." The young Rockefeller learnt his lesson well, and by all accounts John was smart, shrewd and possessed of a maturity beyond his years. From his father's example, he learned how to lie, how to cheat, and how to get away with it, traits that served him well as he rose to become one of the richest men the world has ever known.
https://www.corbettreport.com/meet-william-rockefeller-snake-oil-salesman/
corbett report rockefeller
https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-286-rockefeller-medicine/
https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-026-meet-the-rockefellers/
https://www.corbettreport.com/tag/rockefeller/
https://www.corbettreport.com/rockefeller-medicine-video/
https://www.corbettreport.com/rockefeller/
https://www.corbettreport.com/the-unauthorized-biography-of-david-rockefeller/
https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-310-rise-of-the-oiligarchs/
hippocratic oath
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/greek/greek_oath.html
The Hippocratic Oath is an oath of ethics historically taken by physicians. It is one of the most widely known of Greek medical texts. In its original form, it requires a new physician to swear, by a number of healing gods, to uphold specific ethical standards. The oath is the earliest expression of medical ethics in the Western world, establishing several principles of medical ethics which remain of paramount significance today. These include the principles of medical confidentiality and non-maleficence. As the seminal articulation of certain principles that continue to guide and inform medical practice, the ancient text is of more than historic and symbolic value. Swearing a modified form of the oath remains a rite of passage for medical graduates in many countries.
The original oath was written in Ionic Greek, between the fifth and third centuries BC.[1] Although it is traditionally attributed to the Greek doctor Hippocrates and it is usually included in the Hippocratic Corpus, most modern scholars do not regard it as having been written by Hippocrates himself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_ethics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Corpus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_Library
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_health_deities
- selective publication, advertorial, reprint revenue, financial conflicts of interest, biased editors, flawed and biased research findings, gifts, etc... Top doctors/researchers are corrupt?
Dr. Jason Fung - Financial Conflicts of Interests and the End of Evidence-Based Medicine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6IO2DZjOkY
- it makes sense why drug companies would get try to ingratiate themselves with regulatory bodies such as the FDA. Drug research success rate is pretty low and approval is difficult enough as is? Use any any means to get drug approval?
medical fda conflict of interest statistics
Brilinta fits a pattern of what might be called pay-later conflicts of interest, which have gone largely unnoticed—and entirely unpoliced. In examining compensation records from drug companies to physicians who advised FDA on whether to approve 28 psychopharmacologic, arthritis, and cardiac or renal drugs between 2008 and 2014, Science found widespread after-the-fact payments or research support to panel members. The agency's safeguards against potential conflicts of interest are not designed to prevent such future financial ties.
Other apparent conflicts may have also slipped by: Science found that at the time of or in the year leading up to the advisory meetings, many of those panel members—including Halperin—received payments or other financial support from the drugmaker or key competitors for consulting, travel, lectures, or research. FDA did not publicly note those financial ties.
The analysis, which used physician disclosures in freely available publications and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services records for 2013 to 2016 on the federal Open Payments website, examined direct payments to physicians from firms whose drugs were voted on. It also considered payments from competitors selling or researching drugs of the same class or intended for the same condition—because competing drugs might be affected positively or negatively by the market entry of a new contender or by restrictions or warnings placed on a new drug's label. Science further looked at research funding from a company to an FDA adviser, directly or through their institution. Such money—including "associated research" funding that nearly always supports principal investigators—affects a scientist's career advancement, compensation, or professional influence. (Check out an interactive that details all of these payments.)
Among the investigation's key findings:
Of 107 physician advisers who voted on the committees Science examined, 40 over a nearly 4-year period received more than $10,000 in post hoc earnings or research support from the makers of drugs that the panels voted to approve, or from competing firms; 26 of those gained more than $100,000; and six more than $1 million.
Of the more than $24 million in personal payments or research support from industry to the 16 top-earning advisers—who received more than $300,000 each—93% came from the makers of drugs those advisers previously reviewed or from competitors.
Most of those top earners—and many others—received other funds from those same companies, concurrent with or in the year before their advisory service. Those payments were disclosed in scholarly journals but not by FDA.
The research study used 15 years of data, from 1997 to 2011, and focused on 15 Center for Drug Evaluation and Research committees. A lot of the committees varied significantly in the amount of conflicts of interest but overall the most prevalent type of financial tie was consulting, at 34%. The second most prevalent tie was ownership interest or royalties, at 25%; the third was paid speaker for the company, at 19%; and the fourth type of financial tie was being a member of the company’s advisory board, at 14%. Surprisingly low on the list was research grant or contract recipient, at 9%.
The authors reviewed meeting transcripts of AADPAC meetings from 2009 to 2017 and identified 112 speaking appearances made by 91 individuals. Twenty-two of the 112 speakers disclosed a COI, such as reimbursement for travel related to attending the meeting. The authors independently identified undisclosed conflicts of interest that predated the committee meeting for six speakers. In addition, they identified 15 speakers who had undisclosed financial associations with the sponsor of the drug under review but for whom it could not be determined whether the financial association originated before or after the meeting in question. Put another way, at least a quarter of speakers had a conflict of interest, a fifth of which were not disclosed to the committee.
Overall, 67.9% of speakers supported drug approvals. Support for drug approval was significantly higher (86%) among speakers with prior conflicts of interest. Using a logistic regression, McCoy and colleagues estimate that speakers with a disclosed COI are six times more likely to voice support for drug approval than speakers with none.
fda drug approval rejection statistics
What percentage of drugs get approved by the FDA?
Seiffert notes that DiMasi arrived at the 12 percent figure using a “weighted average, since as of the study, just 7 percent of the 1,442 drugs had actually been approved. Fully 80 percent had been abandoned by the companies developing them, and the other 13 percent were still in active development.
- if you didn't know the malpractice/litigation rate seems to be very high? Could simply be fraudulent claims? I'm surprised that we hold this industry in such high regard at times if you look further and deeper?
The survey consisted of 24 questions distributed across four topics: 1) survey respondent demographics; 2) how fear of lawsuits may affect the manner in which the respondents practice medicine and view patients; 3) personal experiences with medical lawsuits; and 4) the impact of the medical malpractice environment on the respondents' personal practice of medicine.
The authors received 490 responses to the survey (an 8% response rate). The survey respondents had a mean clinical experience of 25 years and most (84%) practiced in the United States. The top subspecialties represented were spine surgery, neuro-oncology, and neurotrauma. Survey responses showed that the subspecialty with the greatest number of medical malpractice suits was spine surgery.
When asked about fear of being sued for malpractice, 40% of respondents stated that they were frequently or always concerned about being sued and 77% stated that this fear changed how they practiced medicine. The practice of defensive medicine was frequently cited (58%) in response to fear of being sued. There are two types of defensive medicine: positive defensive medicine, in which physicians order additional, unnecessary diagnostic tests or therapies, or may demand excessive documentation during consultations; and negative defensive medicine, in which physicians drop complex cases or refer high-risk patients elsewhere.
Of the respondents who stated that fear of being sued affected their practice of medicine, 73% cited ordering more tests or increased documentation, and 12% cited referral of patients to other physicians or dropping complex cases. Twenty-five percent of these respondents noted that these actions resulted in increased costs for patients, and 7% mentioned a changed physician-patient relationship.
More than 80% of survey respondents reported having been named in one or more medical malpractice lawsuits; 26% of respondents had been involved in one lawsuit and 12% in more than 10 lawsuits. Respondents reported that the majority of medical malpractice suits had been dropped (35%) or settled out of court to the benefit of the plaintiff (22%). Fifteen percent of survey respondents reported having been involved in lawsuits that proceeded through the courts and resulted in plaintiffs receiving more than $1 million in damages.
Regarding the effect of the medical malpractice environment on the practice of medicine, 59% of survey respondents stated that they considered referring difficult cases, 61% considered limiting the scope of their practices, and 36% considered leaving medical practice altogether.
Neurosurgeons and malpractice suits
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-11/jonp-nam102320.php
malpractice rate medical
The proportion of physicians facing a claim each year ranged from 19.1% in neurosurgery, 18.9% in thoracic–cardiovascular surgery, and 15.3% in general surgery to 5.2% in family medicine, 3.1% in pediatrics, and 2.6% in psychiatry. The mean indemnity payment was $274,887, and the median was $111,749.
Malpractice Risk According to Physician Specialty - NCBI - NIH
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3204310/
medical complications statistics
https://www.safetyandquality.gov.au/our-work/indicators/hospital-acquired-complications
QuickStats: Death Rate* From Complications of Medical and Surgical Care Among Adults Aged ≥45 Years, by Age Group — United States, 1999–2009
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6137a6.htm
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-11-million-patients-complications-surgery-year.html
Malpractice Risk, by Physician Specialty
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9610.html
placebo effect
The practice of doctors prescribing placebos that are disguised as real medication is controversial. A chief concern is that it is deceptive and could harm the doctor–patient relationship in the long run. While some say that blanket consent, or the general consent to unspecified treatment given by patients beforehand, is ethical, others argue that patients should always obtain specific information about the name of the drug they are receiving, its side effects, and other treatment options.[47] This view is shared by some on the grounds of patient autonomy.[48] There are also concerns that legitimate doctors and pharmacists could open themselves up to charges of fraud or malpractice by using a placebo.[49] Critics also argued that using placebos can delay the proper diagnosis and treatment of serious medical conditions.[50]
About 25% of physicians in both the Danish and Israeli studies used placebos as a diagnostic tool to determine if a patient's symptoms were real, or if the patient was malingering. Both the critics and the defenders of the medical use of placebos agreed that this was unethical.[51] The British Medical Journal editorial said, "That a patient gets pain relief from a placebo does not imply that the pain is not real or organic in origin ...the use of the placebo for 'diagnosis' of whether or not pain is real is misguided." A survey in the United States of more than 10,000 physicians came to the result that while 24% of physicians would prescribe a treatment that is a placebo simply because the patient wanted treatment, 58% would not, and for the remaining 18%, it would depend on the circumstances.[52]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo#Effects
nocebo effect
A nocebo effect is said to occur when negative expectations of the patient regarding a treatment cause the treatment to have a more negative effect than it otherwise would have.[1][2] For example, when a patient anticipates a side effect of a medication, they can suffer that effect even if the "medication" is actually an inert substance.[1] The complementary concept, the placebo effect, is said to occur when positive expectations improve an outcome. Both placebo and nocebo effects are presumably psychogenic, but they can induce measurable changes in the body.[1] One article that reviewed 31 studies on nocebo effects reported a wide range of symptoms that could manifest as nocebo effects including nausea, stomach pains, itching, bloating, depression, sleep problems, loss of appetite, sexual dysfunction and severe hypotension.[1]
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Side effects of drugs
It has been shown that, due to the nocebo effect, warning patients about side effects of drugs can contribute to the causation of such effects, whether the drug is real or not.[13][14] This effect has been observed in clinical trials: according to a 2013 review, the dropout rate among placebo-treated patients in a meta-analysis of 41 clinical trials of Parkinson's disease treatments was 8.8%.[15] A 2013 review found that nearly 1 out of 20 patients receiving a placebo in clinical trials for depression dropped out due to adverse events, which were believed to have been caused by the nocebo effect.[16] A 2018 review found that half of patients taking placebos in clinical trials report intervention-related adverse events.[17]
Many of the side-effects attributed to statins could be down to the “nocebo effect”, which occurs when someone expects to experience negative symptoms – even if the drug is a placebo – a study suggests.
Typically, vaccine development takes 10-15 years. Under Operation Warp Speed, the goal is to shorten that to 12-18 months and, remarkably, researchers are actually ahead of this already accelerated schedule.
- I've come to realise that corruption is almost like an integral part of society? It would fall apart if there were no corruption? You're effectively competing to become more corrupt, hypocritical, manipulative, etc... as you move towards the top? Even if good people want to change the system they're limited by what they can do because of the nature of the system?
[to lawyer Bennett Holiday] Some trust fund prosecutor, got off-message at Yale, thinks he's gonna run this up the flagpole, make a name for himself, maybe get elected some two-bit, congressman from nowhere, with the result that Russia or China can suddenly start having, at our expense, all the advantages we enjoy here. No, I tell you. No, sir! Corruption charges! Corruption?!! Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations. That's Milton Friedman. He got a goddamn Nobel Prize. We have laws against it precisely so we can get away with it. Corruption is our protection. Corruption keeps us safe and warm. Corruption is why you and I are prancing around in here instead of fighting over scraps of meat out in the streets. Corruption is why we win.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Syriana
Corruption keeps us safe and warm. Corruption is why you and I are prancing around in here instead of fighting over scraps of meat out in the streets. Corruption is why we win.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365737/characters/nm0625789
Syriana - Corruption
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuBstLZINco
mission impossible 3 cleanup rebuild quote
Ethan: You told him. You told Davian Lindsey was coming, that's how he knew.
Musgrave: I thought you could get her back. But I wasn't going to let Brassel, to let all people, undo the work I'd done. I took action, Ethan. On the behalf of the working families of our country, the Army force, the white house. I've had enough of Brassel and his sanctimony. IMF director, he's an affirmative action poster boy. You grabbed Davian like he wanted, then what? Davian's a weed. You cut him out, two more spring up he's just like the next day. Arrest him, then what? You use him. Collaborate with him. And it's Christmas. In 18 hours, the Rabbit's foot will be sent to its Middle East buyer, and we'll have credible Intel to prove it. UN security counsil will get a report by this time tomorrow, we're talking a military strike in a week. And when the sand settles, our country will do what it does best: clean up, infrastructure. Democracy wins.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mission:_Impossible_III
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mission+impossible+musgrave
Mission Impossible III - The Purpose of Rabbit's foot..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h40sClPbcOQ
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=green+zone+final+scene
Green Zone in 4 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03-u-kXa568
Green zone ending scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMNftSOR_RY
General Al Rawi: Your government wanted to hear the lie, Mr. Miller... They wanted Saddam out and they did exactly what they had to do.
https://www.moviemistakes.com/film8401
Miller: When you peddled that shit in DC, did they know it was a lie? Or did they just never bother to ask?
Clark Poundstone: Okay, okay. Come on, none of this matters anymore. WMD? This doesn't matter.
Miller: [grabs Poundstone angrily and forcefully] What the fuck you talking about? Of course it fucking matters! The reasons we go to war always matter! It's all that matters! It fucking matters!
https://quotesgram.com/green-zone-quotes/
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=science+corruption
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=science+corruption&sp=EgIYAg%253D%253D
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=medical+corruption
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=medical+corruption&sp=EgIYAg%253D%253D
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=doctor+corruption
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=doctor+corruption&sp=EgIYAg%253D%253D
Cardinal Pell Talks Vatican Bank Corruption Dr Taylor Marshall Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP-tuEO_QPY
Closer to China - China's Healthcare Reform - Doctor-Patient Tension 01_17_2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PXEYeE7zM8
Doctor Strike and Universal Health Care in Kenya _ Cynthia Waliaula _ TEDxKilimani
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-ZBJ5dDe8M
Exposing corruption, abuse and war crimes - Whistleblower _ DW Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIGtvaWep1M
Feds announce fraud, corruption charges at Veterans Affairs hospitals in West Palm Beach, Miami
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0pqVUmFHjw
Healers or Predators Healthcare Corruption in India
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFsFAdlWhXQ
Medical corruption exposed - Doctors capitalise on patients' suffering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHPSRlMcvDM
One election, 130 politicians dead - Can Mexico's President stop the killings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQa4jf45CIE
The Corruption of Science by Pharma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1EQ_pEKRjI
The Corrupt World of Science _ Dr Suman Sahai _ TEDxSMIT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDp9JxhWFsc
The Epidemic of Physician Suicides + Corruption in American Medical Boards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5f5RaDQ3aE
The Hospital Bullying Culture Putting Us All At Risk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr7Q_WK8dRw
Unbreaking America - Solving the Corruption Crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfQij4aQq1k
Unmasking 'Crooked, Illinois' as nation's top corrupt state
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0HsmDVLVzM
Why Our Healthcare System is Killing Us _ Angela Mills _ TEDxColumbiaUniversity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG0BwbDymGc
Will Money Corrupt Science _ The Frauds Of Science _ Spark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yM7dkJrUfw
Would an Anti-Corruption Body Restore Our Trust in Politics _ Q&A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHyb_89gKXk
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=medical+industrial+complex
Ryan Tannehill was betrayed by Miami's Medical Industrial Complex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx_ltCy5Ahs
Shocking report - 'Medical-industrial complex' gouges US workers (Full show)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZjQ5h07C4o
The Biopolitics of the Medical Industrial Complex in Pandemic Times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3jQQbeSCHQ
The Measurement Industrial Complex and the Destruction of Medicine _ Against Medical Advice 030
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR01bDDR_g4
The Opioid Industrial Complex — Getting Rich Off Drug Money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEB4cLJ5dsI
The Real Reason Healthcare Is So Expensive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vimVRXwx2C4
- I didn't realise admissions scams were so prevalent until recently. Seems to be a global issue and linked to all faculties of academia?
us college admission scandals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_college_admissions_bribery_scandal
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/12/college-admissions-fraud-scandal-felicity-huffman-lori-loughlin
https://www.insider.com/college-admissions-cheating-scandal-full-list-people-charged-2019-3
https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/266855736/maryam-nawaz-begins-campaign-in-pak-against-hybrid-govt
Maryam was born on 28 October 1973[4][5][6] in Lahore, Pakistan,[1][7][8] to Nawaz Sharif and Kulsoom Butt.[9]
She received her early education from the Convent of Jesus and Mary, Lahore.[2][10] She wanted to become a doctor,[9] hence she enrolled in King Edward Medical College in the late 1980s; however, after a controversy over illegal admission arose, she had to leave the college without completing her degree.[11]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam_Nawaz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_von_der_Leyen
Corruption in the Medical Examiner's Office
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lQMhwhE5m8
The Corporate Corruption of Academic Research
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzNLqMS86RQ
News Today - Lawyer Prashant Bhushan Accuses Chief Justice Of Corruption In Medical Admissions Scam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaZYzZ_3hLQ
doctor admissions scandals
https://www.insider.com/college-admissions-cheating-scandal-full-list-people-charged-2019-3
The college admissions scandal that is saturating the airwaves involves more than abuse of the educational system. It actually highlights a commonplace occurrence of one of many ways individuals attempt to game the medical system. In this example, in addition to bribery and falsifying athletic participation and SAT scores, the kingpin who orchestrated the far-reaching misconduct advised high-profile families involved to fake a disability to procure a doctor's note stating their child required unlimited time during testing conditions.
Sadly, inappropriate requests bombard physicians constantly and deciphering honorable ones from the more nefarious occupy substantial time diverted away from patient care (review here on doctor shopping). And, schools are routinely complicit in not aptly managing expectations. When "just get a doctor's note" or "just get your doctor to sign it" becomes the du jour reflexive refrain to avoid responsibility, even valid inquiries can get clouded in misunderstandings and unnecessary frustration.  
https://www.acsh.org/news/2019/03/25/college-admissions-scandal-highlights-often-ignored-gaming-medical-system-13908
- human mind control experiments obviously still continue to this very day? I'm not even a medical doctor but know that they'll be a lot of side effects even if they can bypass some of the lockouts that they're attempting? Unethical medical experiments on unwitting people more common then the public realise? I assume that if they can bypass some lockouts via the medical industrial complex they'll filter their way back into civilian medicine?
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/09/ancient-astronautsmythologyarchaeologys_24.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/12/mental-illness-and-human-mind-control.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/things-spies-have-stolen-random-stuff.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/what-happened-to-escaped-nazis-random.html
Unethical human experimentation is human experimentation that violates the principles of medical ethics. Such practices have included denying patients the right to informed consent, using pseudoscientific frameworks such as race science, and torturing people under the guise of research. Around World War II, Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany carried out brutal experiments on prisoners and civilians through groups like Unit 731 or individuals like Josef Mengele; the Nuremberg Code was developed after the war in response to the Nazi experiments. Countries have carried out brutal experiments on marginalized populations. Examples include American abuses during Project MKUltra and the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, and the mistreatment of indigenous populations in Canada and Australia. The Declaration of Helsinki, developed by the World Medical Association (WMA), is widely regarded as the cornerstone document on human research ethics.[1][2][3]
Contents
1 Nazi Germany
1.1 Before World War II
1.2 During World War II
2 Japan
2.1 Empire of Japan
2.2 State of Japan
3 Aboriginal Australians
4 Indigenous populations in Canada
5 Guatemala
6 North Korea
7 Sweden
8 Soviet Union
9 United Kingdom
10 United States
10.1 Beecher Paper
11 International drug trials
12 See also
13 References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montauk_Project
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montauk_Project
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugway_Proving_Ground
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugway_sheep_incident
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Project
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_51
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea-Spray
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/09/ancient-astronautsmythologyarchaeologys_24.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-evolution-vs-creationism-debate.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/12/mental-illness-and-human-mind-control.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/10/human-like-animal-behaviours-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/11/mini-search-engine-prototype-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/10/web-crawler-script-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Midnight_Climax
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKCHICKWIT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra#MKSEARCH
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Pfeiffer_(pharmacologist)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Gottlieb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanzee
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=humanzee
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-evolution-vs-creationism-debate.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/10/human-like-animal-behaviours-and.html
darpa supersoldier
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/09/military-technology-pentagon-robots/406786/
https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/inventions/the-incredible-scifi-innovations-developed-by-darpa-americas-most-secretive-government-lab/news-story/ff142e6df1171d8eff06b3f78591b697
https://sociable.co/technology/envisioning-bioengineered-soldier-future-darpa-research-programs/
Supersoldiers are common in science fiction literature, films and video games. Fictional supersoldiers are usually heavily augmented, either through surgical means, eugenics, genetic engineering, cybernetic implants, drugs, brainwashing, traumatic events, an extreme training regimen or other scientific and pseudoscientific means. Occasionally, some instances also use paranormal methods, such as black magic or technology and science of extraterrestrial origin. In entertainment, the creators of such programs are viewed often as mad scientists or stern military personnel depending on the emphasis, as their programs would typically go past ethical boundaries in the pursuit of science or military might.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersoldier
- deep down I know that medical professionals are involved in organised crime? There's no way they could make quality, safe, recreational, addictive drugs, etc... without some help?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/mexican-drug-cartel-background-random.html
- chemically grown crops core to Green Revolution? Big problem of it is that farmers aren't in control of what they plant, plants require more water to grow, profit margins, wipe out diversity, etc... Nazi era chemical companies involved. Monsanto create false lawsuits/sue companies until they give up their seed. They're trying to commoditise the genetic world.
Being a well-known anti-vax activist, Cunial singled-out Gates as the villain primarily because of the vaccination campaigns that his foundation has been conducting for years in less-developed countries. But while boldly accusing the billionaire of sterilizing millions of women in Africa and paralyzing hundreds of thousands of children in India, she also added a good pinch of GMOs and 5G tech to the dense conspiracy mix of his 'sins.'
ON CONTACT - The fight for life v. Monsanto_Bayer AG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1282XZ_8ofw
https://www.rt.com/news/488912-italy-parliament-bill-gates-coronavirus/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Foundation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_Foundation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug
https://www.facebook.com/savetheseed/
Shiva supports the idea of seed freedom, or the rejection of corporate patents on seeds. She has campaigned against the implementation of the WTO 1994 Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement, which broadens the scope of patents to include life forms. Shiva has criticised the agreement as having close ties with the corporate sector and opening the door to further patents on life.[28] Shiva calls the patenting of life 'biopiracy', and has fought against attempted patents of several indigenous plants, such as basmati.[29] In 2005, Shiva's was one of the three organisations that won a 10-year battle in the European Patent Office against the biopiracy of Neem by the US Department of Agriculture and the corporation WR Grace.[30] In 1998, Shiva's organisation Navdanya began a campaign against the biopiracy of basmati rice by US corporation RiceTec Inc. In 2001, following intensive campaigning, RiceTec lost most of its claims to the patent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandana_Shiva
https://seedfreedom.info/
- I'd like to believe that the global elite aren't using sterilisation as a means of achieving a balance between resource consumption and population growth but the further you dig the more rediculous you realise international politics is?
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/10/is-world-in-environmental-trouble.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Study_Memorandum_200
bill gates sterilisation
https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/health/story/20170306-bill-gates-foundation-vaccines-for-poor-india-health-985853-2017-02-27
Bill Gates and the Population Control Grid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igx86PoU7v8
birth rate by country
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependencies_by_total_fertility_rate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fertility_rate_world_map_2.png
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
global inequality trend
https://ourworldindata.org/global-economic-inequality
https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2019/10/23/yes-global-inequality-has-fallen-no-we-shouldnt-be-complacent
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/11/is-income-inequality-rising-around-the-world/
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jan/22/wealth-gap-widening-for-more-than-70-per-cent-of-global-population-researchers-find
https://www.un.org/development/desa/dspd/world-social-report/2020-2.html
corbett report bill gates
https://www.corbettreport.com/gates/
https://www.corbettreport.com/tag/bill-gates/
https://www.corbettreport.com/meetgates/
http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/episode377_gates_health.mp3
http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/episode378_gates_vaccine.mp3
http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/episode379_gates_population.mp3
http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/episode380_meet_gates.mp3
- conflicts of interest from the medical world are never ending. You'd be surprised at how some pharmaceutical companies are getting around laws designed to level the playing field, how the line blurs/disappears between patient care and profit, etc?
generic drugs
Generic drugs are copies of brand-name drugs that have exactly the same dosage, intended use, effects, side effects, route of administration, risks, safety, and strength as the original drug. In other words, their pharmacological effects are exactly the same as those of their brand-name counterparts.
https://www.medicinenet.com/generic_drugs_are_they_as_good_as_brand-names/views.htm
When a pharmaceutical company first markets a drug, it is usually under a patent that, until it expires, the company can use to exclude competitors by suing them for patent infringement.[13] Pharmaceutical companies that develop new drugs generally only invest in drug candidates with strong patent protection as a strategy to recoup their costs of drug development (including the costs of the drug candidates that fail) and to make a profit.[14] The average cost to a brand-name company of discovering, testing, and obtaining regulatory approval for a new drug, with a new chemical entity, was estimated to be as much as US$800 million in 2003[15] and US$2.6 billion in 2014.[16] Drug companies that bring new products have several product line extension strategies they use to extend their exclusivity, some of which are seen as gaming the system and referred to by critics as "evergreening", but at some point there is no patent protection available.[13] For as long as a drug patent lasts, a brand-name company enjoys a period of market exclusivity, or monopoly, in which the company is able to set the price of the drug at a level that maximizes profit. This profit often greatly exceeds the development and production costs of the drug, allowing the company to offset the cost of research and development of other drugs that are not profitable or do not pass clinical trials.[7] · The impact of loss of patent exclusivity on pharmaceutical products varies significantly across different product classes (e.g., biologics vs. small molecules) largely due to regulatory, legal and manufacturing hurdles associated with such products. Indeed, the greater degree of 'brand-brand' competitive dynamics seen in the biologics and complex generics space allows manufacturers of originators to better protect market share following loss of patent exclusivity.[17]
Large pharmaceutical companies often spend millions protecting their patents from generic competition.[7] Apart from litigation, they may reformulate a drug or license a subsidiary (or another company) to sell generics under the original patent. Generics sold under license from the patent holder are known as authorized generics.[18]
Generic drugs are usually sold for significantly lower prices than their branded equivalents and at lower profit margins.[19] One reason for this is that competition increases among producers when a drug is no longer protected by patents.[19] Generic companies incur fewer costs in creating generic drugs—only the cost of manufacturing, without the costs of drug discovery and drug development—and are therefore able to maintain profitability at a lower price.[19][20][21] The prices are often low enough for users in less-prosperous countries to afford them. For example, Thailand has imported millions of doses of a generic version of the blood-thinning drug Plavix (used to help prevent heart attacks) from India, the leading manufacturer of generic drugs, at a cost of US$0.03 per dose.[22]
Generic drug companies may also receive the benefit of the previous marketing efforts of the brand-name company, including advertising, presentations by drug representatives, and distribution of free samples. Many drugs introduced by generic manufacturers have already been on the market for a decade or more and may already be well known to patients and providers, although often under their branded name.[citation needed]
India is a leading country in the world's generic drugs market, exporting US$20.0 billion worth of drugs in the 2019–20 (April–March) year.[23] India exports generic drugs to the United States and the European Union.[24]
In the United Kingdom, generic drug pricing is controlled by the government's reimbursement rate. The price paid by pharmacists and doctors is determined mainly by the number of license holders, the sales value of the original brand, and the ease of manufacture. A typical price decay graph will show a "scalloped" curve,[25] which usually starts at the brand-name price on the day of generic launch and then falls as competition intensifies. After some years, the graph typically flattens out at approximately 20% of the original brand price. In about 20% of cases, the price "bounces": Some license holders withdraw from the market when the selling price dips below their cost of goods, and the price then rises for a while until the license holders re-enter the market with new stock.[26][27] The NHS spent about £4.3 billion on generic medicines in 2016–17.[28]
In 2012, 84% of prescriptions in the US were filled with generic drugs,[29] and in 2014, the use of generic drugs in the United States led to US$254 billion in health care savings.[8]:2
In the mid 2010s the generics industry began transitioning to the end of an era of giant patent cliffs in the pharmaceutical industry; patented drugs with sales of around US$28 billion were set to come off patent in 2018, but in 2019 only about US$10 billion in revenue was set to open for competition, and less the next year. Companies in the industry have responded with consolidation or turning to try to generate new drugs.[30]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_drug
Cheap Generic Meds Are Here, Big Pharma Is Hiding Them!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZmiHIHAVq4
Very Cheap Covid-19 Drugs Are Hidden From Public
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR04fBD1S54
~305~ Cancer Solution Ignored For Profit - And MSM Plays Along
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG1RLII0PAw
You Won't Believe New Video of Big Pharma Kingpin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFfqYvNs6iw
big tobacco
Big Tobacco is a name used to refer to the largest global tobacco industry companies. The five largest tobacco companies are Philip Morris International, Altria, British American Tobacco, Imperial Brands, and Japan Tobacco International.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Tobacco
Big Soda is a term used by the media,[1] various activist groups,[2] and CrossFit[citation needed] to describe the soft drink industry as a collective entity. The term connotes the business and lobbying power of soft drink companies who, like Big Oil and Big Tobacco, would use that power to influence politicians and voters.[3]
Big Soda usually refers to the giants of the soft drink industry, The Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo, and to a lesser extent, the Dr Pepper Snapple Group.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Soda
big sugar industry
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-30/big-sugar-and-the-big-flaw-in-australias-health-programs/9707204
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_industry
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/program/hughs-fat-fight
hughs fat fight
Britain's Fat Fight with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b15qt7
http://hattrickinternational.co.uk/shows/Hughs_Fat_Fight
The sociologist, Kellehear (2007) points out that dying does not take place in a social and physical vacuum. For example, it has implications for the way in which medicalised dying is managed. When dying takes place in a public, (relatively) open and visible space such as a hospital, or a section of a hospital such as the intensive care setting, an individual’s experience becomes a communal issue and a public administrative matter. For example, there may be enormous pressure on beds in a ward where someone is dying – the pressure for the administrators of the hospital is to have a high turnover of patients to ensure that targets for treatment are met. One result of this is that people who exceed the medical expectations of their prognoses become problematic. The following example is taken from the system of health care in the USA; nonetheless, it provides a vivid illustration of the tension between medical predictability, administrative efficiency and providing appropriate and suitable end-of-life care.
A patient expected to die on time, but who suddenly begins to recover slightly or to linger – the short-term reprieve pattern – can cause problems for nurses, family, physicians, and hospital administrators. Here is an example: one patient who was expected to die within four hours had no money, but needed a special machine during his last days. A private hospital, at which he had been a frequent paying patient for thirty years, agreed to receive him as a charity patient. He did not die immediately but started to linger indefinitely, even to the point where there was some hope he might live. The money problem, however, created much concern among both his family members and the hospital administrators. Paradoxically, the doctor had continually to reassure both parties that this patient, who actually lasted six weeks, would soon die; that is, to try to change their expectations back to ‘certain to die on time’.
(Glaser and Strauss, 1965, p. 24)
This can have repercussions on several practical levels. When death is so unpredictable and there is a high premium on being with someone at the end of life, such tensions can cause distress. This is no different for those who are medically diagnosed as dying, as you can see from Glaser and Strauss’s example. Someone who ‘lingers’ – itself a problematic term as it implies that the lingering person is a nuisance – creates difficulties for the family, who are also left in an indeterminate state. In this example, the authors did not elaborate on what the family did, but one can imagine the difficulty in negotiating compassionate leave from work over a period of six weeks. A team member recounted how when her father was dying (he was given a six-month prognosis but lived for 14 months) she had been saving her leave to help to care for him in the last few weeks of his life, but ended up losing her leave because she had not been able to carry any forward to the next year, leaving her exhausted. The medicalisation of the dying process, therefore, cannot be assessed and examined separately from the practical and policy context within which it takes place.
Power is an essential feature of the debate about the medicalisation of death, as western societies value knowledge and expertise and allocate authority accordingly. As highly trained professionals, medical and clinical practitioners fall into some of the most highly esteemed positions of authority in society. The philosopher, Foucault highlights the relationship between power and knowledge. He connects them to the extent that:
[P]ower and knowledge directly imply one another; … there is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations.
(Foucault, 1977, p. 27)
In claiming that in modern societies power is knowledge, Foucault argues that there are more subtle forms of control than coercion and force. For him, power is everywhere and no one can be outside its influence. Power, according to his theorising, is not possessed but instead is something that can be understood as relational. He sees this relational feature as embedded in social organisations, expressed through hierarchies and determined through discourses.
One of the main criticisms of Foucault’s work is his failure to acknowledge the power of resistance. In their review of professional power, medical sociologists Simon Williams and Michael Calnan suggest that the traditional systems of medical knowledge are being challenged by developments such as mass media, greater access to information and alternative forms of health (and death). They conclude:
In this world of uncertain times, one thing remains clear: namely, that lay people are not simply passive or active, dependent or independent, believers or sceptics. Rather, they are a complex mixture of all of these things (and much more besides).
(Williams and Calnan, 1996, p. 264)
Challenges to medical power as forms of resistance (i.e. not ‘fitting’ the medical view) might include such things as the use of complementary and alternative medicine; seeking different opinions, including the use of the internet; or refusing to take medical advice. These are all problematic in that they depend on ‘other’ forms of power, many of which can be located within the broad realm of medical knowledge. Foucault’s arguments that discourses shape and produce people's identity do not take people out of the realm of being defined as ‘dying’. Thus resistance here is not convincing. The course authors would therefore argue that the notion of resistance can be viewed as much more subtle. The medical profession might be part of the force that is defining illness and wellness, but individual doctors are not necessarily consciously setting out to do so. Likewise, resistance can be viewed differently. Both dying unexpectedly and not dying when a terminal diagnosis has been given have been seen as forms of resistance. This is not necessarily a matter of conscious choice, but of the inappropriateness or lack of usefulness of the medical diagnosis. On one level, medical definitions of death and dying are literally being resisted. An OU academic has argued that care home staff try to manage the period of dying, despite the reality that the bodies of ageing and frail residents are in a gradual but highly uneven decline into death and resistant to being categorised as either living or dying (Komaromy, 2001). Furthermore, regardless of any definition that might be made about their status, their bodies will continue to deteriorate.
- technically, the following issues aren't corruption but give you an idea much luck seems to be involved in a lot of healthcare incidents? It's genuinely remarkable how random some drug efficiency rates are (50/50 random luck almost in double blind experiments)
How we have been lied to by Big Pharma
misdiagnosis statistics
An estimated 40,000 to 80,000 deaths occur each year in U.S. hospitals related to misdiagnosis, and an estimated 12 million Americans suffer a diagnostic error each year in a primary care setting—33% of which result in serious or permanent damage or death.
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/hospitals-health-systems/jhu-1-3-misdiagnoses-results-serious-injury-or-death
Misdiagnosis: analysis based on case record review with proposals aimed to improve diagnostic processes
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5873736/
https://www.mdlinx.com/article/most-commonly-misdiagnosed-medical-conditions/lfc-4136
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/20-percent-of-patients-with-serious-conditions-are-first-misdiagnosed-study-says/2017/04/03/e386982a-189f-11e7-9887-1a5314b56a08_story.html
medication effectiveness statistics
The vastness of clinical data and the progressing specialization of medical knowledge may lead to misinterpretation of medication efficacy. To show a realistic perspective on drug efficacy we present meta-analyses on some of the most commonly used pharmacological interventions. For each pharmacological intervention we present statistical indexes (absolute risk or response difference, percentage response ratio, mean difference, standardized mean difference) that are often used to represent efficacy. We found that some of the medications have relatively low effect sizes with only 11 out of 17 of them showing a minimal clinically important difference. Efficacy was often established based on surrogate outcomes and not the more relevant patient-oriented outcomes. As the interpretation of the efficacy of medication is complex, more training for physicians might be needed to get a more realistic view of drug efficacy. That could help prevent harmful overtreatment and reinforce an evidence-based, but personalized medicine.
How effective are common medications: a perspective based on meta-analyses of major drugs
https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-015-0494-1
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/program/transplant
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/program/medicine-or-myth
vacine efficiency statistics
How effective is the flu vaccine?
CDC conducts studies each year to determine how well the influenza (flu) vaccine protects against flu illness. While vaccine effectiveness (VE) can vary, recent studies show that flu vaccination reduces the risk of flu illness by between 40% and 60% among the overall population during seasons when most circulating flu viruses are well-matched to the flu vaccine. In general, current flu vaccines tend to work better against influenza B and influenza A(H1N1) viruses and offer lower protection against influenza A(H3N2) viruses. See “Does flu vaccine effectiveness vary by type or subtype?” and “Why is flu vaccine typically less effective against influenza A H3N2 viruses?” for more information.
average vaccine creation time
The speed with which researchers and pharmaceutical companies have responded to the coronavirus epidemic has been described as "unprecedented" by Dr Jerome Kim, Director-General of the International Vaccine Institute.
“When we are used to five-year time frames, to see something go into human testing on March 17 is really a remarkable thing,” he told CNBC. “Does this guarantee success? Not necessarily. Vaccine development is characterised by a high failure rate – often 93% between animal studies and registration of a product.”
The discovery and research phase is normally two-to-five years, according to the Wellcome Trust. In total, a vaccine can take more than 10 years to fully develop and costs up to $500 million, the UK charity says.
COVID-19 vaccine development pipeline gears up
vaccine efficiency statistics
- I didn't realise is that there has been basically no progress on the upper limit of human lifespan for thousands of years?
life expectancy 600ad
Discussions about life expectancy often involve how it has improved over time. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, life expectancy for men in 1907 was 45.6 years; by 1957 it rose to 66.4; in 2007 it reached 75.5. Unlike the most recent increase in life expectancy (which was attributable largely to a decline in half of the leading causes of death including heart disease, homicide, and influenza), the increase in life expectancy between 1907 and 2007 was largely due to a decreasing infant mortality rate, which was 9.99 percent in 1907; 2.63 percent in 1957; and 0.68 percent in 2007.
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Again, the high infant mortality rate skews the "life expectancy" dramatically downward. If a couple has two children and one of them dies in childbirth while the other lives to be 90, stating that on average the couple's children lived to be 45 is statistically accurate but meaningless. Claiming a low average age of death due to high infant mortality is not the same as claiming that the average person in that population will die at that age.
Of course, infant mortality is only one of many factors that influence life expectancy, including medicine, crime, and workplace safety. But when it is calculated in, it often creates confusion and myths.
When Socrates died at the age of 70 around 399 B.C., he did not die of old age but instead by execution. It is ironic that ancient Greeks lived into their 70s and older, while more than 2,000 years later modern Americans aren't living much longer. 
The age structure of ancient populations is a matter of great interest within anthropology and archaeology. Some think we can draw many conclusions from skeletal samples; others are more cautious in their application of models to the past. But there’s no doubt that Romans, Egyptians, and Greeks were dropping dead at age 30, 40, 50 and 60 – at much higher age-specific mortality rates than today. Estimating the overall age profile is difficult and requires models. But testing the “Bad Science” assertion is much easier – if human lifespan had really not changed in 2000 years, then 35-year-olds shouldn’t have left their skeletons very often in the Roman catacombs. Unfortunately (for them), we find those 35-year-old bodies. A rough estimate (gleaned from tomb inscriptions that give ages) is that half of Romans who lived to age 15 – and therefore escaped juvenile mortality – were dead before age 45.
That leaves us with one remaining issue – the maximum lifespan. This statistic really hasn’t changed very much in the last 50 years – the oldest-living humans in 1960 were between 110 and 115; that’s how old the record-holders are today. Only a handful of people have, to our knowledge, ever lived longer.
So in this respect, it may seem reasonable to say that the human lifespan has been fairly constant. But I would challenge even that assertion. For one thing, the maximum lifespan just isn’t very relevant to the population. Only a tiny fraction of people today survive to age 100. That maximum lifespan may tell us something about human biological systems, but what really matters to demography are age-specific mortality rates across adulthood – the full range of times when most people die.
More important, we don’t have a clue what the maximum lifespan may have been 200, 500, or 2000 years ago. Such a tiny fraction of people make it above age 100 today that we could hardly expect to find any of them at all from skeletal samples. Nor can we expect accurate ages from historical records – Methuseleh, anyone? It seems reasonable to say that the maximum lifespan, at some point in human history, was increased by sedentism, nursing care, stable food availability, and other cultural innovations. With higher infant, juvenile, and adult mortality, even those with perfect genes would be a lot less likely to get the chance to live to extreme ages. But in skeletal terms, at least, the hypothesis may not be testable.
In every way we can measure, human lifespans are longer today than in the immediate past, and longer today than they were 2000 years ago. Infant and juvenile mortality do make a difference – especially if we use “life expectancy at birth” as the statistic – but age-specific mortality rates in adults really have reduced substantially.
That’s a good thing!
how did ancient greeks live so long
Contrary to the commonly held belief that in antiquity and as late as 1700 A.D. normal lifespan was about 35 years, there are indications that the ancient Greeks lived longer. In a study of all men of renown, living in the 5th and 4th century in Greece, we identified 83 whose date of birth and death have been recorded with certainty. Their mean +/- SD and median lengths of life were found to be 71.3+/-13.4 and 70 years, respectively. Although this cohort cannot be considered as representative of the general population, it is however indicative of a long length of life in classical Greece. Good living conditions and a mild climate at the time of intellectual and artistic excellence, the use of slaves for hard work, an animated social life in which the aged actively participated and, not least of all, the respect that aged people were accorded by the younger, all favored a longer length of life and eugeria (happy aging) or eulongevity in classical Greece.
The length of life and eugeria in classical Greece
People could very easily reach the age 60–70. Some lived even more. For example Sophocles, an ancient play writer, lived to see himself become 93 years old. People don’t know or seem to forget that Ancient Greeks were also pioneers in medical fields, with biggest of them all Hippocrates “Father of Medicine” whose practices are still applied today.
- it makes sense that a lot is spent on marketing, public relations, PSYOPS, etc... if the results are semi-random in the medical industry? It makes sense why some people believe in prayer as much if not more then modern medicine now?
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/12/mental-illness-and-human-mind-control.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/11/a-sea-of-fakery-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2018/03/whitepaper-examine-script-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/07/neuroscience-in-psyops-world-order.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/05/more-psyops-social-systems-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/04/more-psyops-random-thoughts-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/04/hybrid-warfare-more-psyops-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/03/psychological-warfaremind-control-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2015/12/understanding-propaganda-us-anti-war.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2018/03/whitepaper-examine-script-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/11/a-sea-of-fakery-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/04/news-feed-bias-checker-random-stuff-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/04/news-bias-checker-2-random-stuff-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/05/news-homepage-bias-check-random-stuff.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/what-happened-to-escaped-nazis-random.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/things-spies-have-stolen-random-stuff.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/cybersecurity-attack-background.html
doctor ratings average
If you are a patient looking for help when trying to find the right doctor, you probably think checking out online reviews would be a good thing to do.
Two studies should give you pause.
The first paper looked at risk-adjusted mortality rates for cardiac surgeons in 5 states (California, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts) that have published this data. Of the 614 surgeons whose information was public, 96% were rated on one or more of the well-known rating websites.
The average risk-adjusted mortality rate for all the surgeons was 1.68% with a range of 0% to over 16%. The median rating for all surgeons was 4.4 on a scale of 1 to 5, and the median number of reviews per surgeon was 4. That's right, 4.
From the paper, the figure below shows the risk-adjusted mortality rate on the Y axis plotted against the average online ratings on the X axis.
As you can see, ratings did not correlate with mortality rates, p = 0.13. Some surgeons with the highest risk-adjusted mortality rates had ratings of 5.
The authors understated conclusion was "Patients using online rating websites to guide their choice of physician should recognize that these ratings may not reflect actual quality of care as defined by accepted metrics."
The second paper compared ratings data from three popular sites for 410 physicians who had been placed on probation by the Medical Board of California to controls matched by zip code and specialty.
Again the average number of ratings was low at 5.2 for the probation group and 4 for the controls.
Doctors with some categories of violations—medical documentation, incompetence, prescription negligence, fraud—had significantly lower ratings than controls. But for other categories including problems of professionalism, drugs or alcohol, crime, sexual misconduct, and personal illness, ratings were not significantly different than those for controls.
For those physicians on probation, average ratings did not differ significantly between physicians whose probation status was published by the ratings website and those whose status was not published. This suggests one of two possibilities—either the raters did not look for sanctions or they did look but did not care.
"The mean rating for physicians on probation was 3.7 compared with 4.0 for controls when all three rating websites were pooled (p <.001). Despite this difference being statistically significant, the absolute difference is quite small with overlapping rating distributions. The vast majority of reviews were positive with small numbers of reviews per doctor."
On univariable analysis, the overall ratings for those on probation vs. controls differed significantly [odds ratio 1.5 (95% CI 1.001-2.2)] but accounting for gender and age were not significantly different by multivariable analysis [odds ratio 1.4 (95% CI 0.9-2.2)].
The authors wrote, "Web-based physician ratings were lower for doctors on probation indicating that patients may perceive a difference, [but] the absolute difference was quite small"
https://www.physiciansweekly.com/good-online-ratings-good-doctor/
efficacy of prayer statistics
Various controlled studies have addressed the topic of the efficacy of prayer at least since Francis Galton in 1872.[13] Carefully monitored studies of prayer are relatively scarce with $5 million spent worldwide on such research each year.[8] The largest study, from the 2006 STEP project, found no significant differences in patients recovering from heart surgery whether the patients were prayed for or not. [14][7]
The third party studies reported either null results, correlated results, or contradictory results in which beneficiaries of prayer had worsened health outcomes. For instance, a meta-analysis of several studies related to distant intercessory healing published in the Annals of Internal Medicine in 2000 looked at 2774 patients in 23 studies, and found that 13 studies showed statistically significant positive results, 9 studies showed no effect, and 1 study showed a negative result.[15]
A 2003 levels of evidence review found evidence for the hypothesis that "Being prayed for improves physical recovery from acute illness".[16] It concluded that although "a number of studies" have tested this hypothesis, "only three have sufficient rigor for review here" (Byrd 1988, Harris et al. 1999, and Sicher et al. 1998). In all three, "the strongest findings were for the variables that were evaluated most subjectively", raising concerns about the possible inadvertent unmasking of the outcomes' assessors. Other meta-studies of the broader literature have been performed showing evidence only for no effect or a potentially small effect. For instance, a 2006 meta analysis on 14 studies concluded that there is "no discernible effect" while a 2007 systemic review of intercessory prayer reported inconclusive results, noting that 7 of 17 studies had "small, but significant, effect sizes" but the review noted that the three most methodologically rigorous studies failed to produce significant findings.[17][18]
Statistical inquiries into the efficacy of prayer
https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/41/4/923/689380
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficacy_of_prayer
placebo effect statistics
Furthermore, the placebo effect is no small or insignificant statistical aberration. Estimates of the placebo cure rate range from a low of 15 percent to a high of 72 percent. The longer the period of treatment and the larger the number of physician visits, the greater the placebo effect.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/brain-sense/201201/the-placebo-effect-how-it-works
https://www.statisticshowto.com/placebo-effect/
https://www.health.harvard.edu/mental-health/the-power-of-the-placebo-effect
- if you track their spending you see that the motivations of some medical companies as highly opportunistic (note contrarian spending pattern during 2009 market crash? Pick up good stock at cheap/low/depressed prices or else see it as an opportunity to clear our balance sheets and consolidate)? They're just as cynical and profit driven as if the company were run by financial advisors and accountants themselves?
Shocking report - 'Medical-industrial complex' gouges US workers (Full show)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZjQ5h07C4o
Skewering Pharma CEO's For Price Gouging
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S54zoA2gcKs
mergers and acquisitions medical industry vs others statistics
https://www.de.kearney.com/health/article?/a/mergers-and-acquisitions-in-the-healthcare-industry
https://www.wipfli.com/insights/articles/hc-vflt-healthcare-mergers-and-acquisitions-trends
https://www.statista.com/statistics/331774/value-of-medtech-merger-and-acquisition-deals-globally/
https://hitconsultant.net/2020/01/22/healthcare-ma-trends-2020-livingstone/
big pharma
The Big Pharma conspiracy theory is a group of conspiracy theories that claim that the medical community in general and pharmaceutical companies in particular, especially large corporations, operate for sinister purposes and against the public good, and that they allegedly cause and worsen a wide range of diseases.[1][2]
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Novella writes that while the pharmaceutical industry has a number of aspects which justly deserve criticism, the "demonization" of it is both cynical and intellectually lazy.[3] He goes on to consider that overblown attacks on Big Pharma actually let the pharmaceutical industry "off the hook" since they distract from and tarnish more considered criticisms.[3] In his 2012 book Bad Pharma, Ben Goldacre criticises the pharmaceutical industry but rejects any conspiracy theories. He argues that the problems are "perpetrated by ordinary people, but many of them may not even know what they've done."[15]
A common claim among proponents of the conspiracy theory is that pharmaceutical companies suppress negative research about their drugs by financially pressuring researchers and journals. Skeptic Benjamin Radford, while conceding there is "certainly a grain of truth" to these claims, notes that there are in fact papers critical of specific drugs published in top journals on a regular basis.[16] A prominent and recent example was a systematic review published in the British Medical Journal showing that paracetamol is ineffective for lower back pain and has minimal effectiveness for osteoarthritis.[17]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Pharma_conspiracy_theory
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients is a book by the British physician and academic Ben Goldacre about the pharmaceutical industry, its relationship with the medical profession, and the extent to which it controls academic research into its own products.[1] It was published in the UK in September 2012 by the Fourth Estate imprint of HarperCollins, and in the United States in February 2013 by Faber and Faber.
Goldacre argues in the book that "the whole edifice of medicine is broken", because the evidence on which it is based is systematically distorted by the pharmaceutical industry.[n 1] He writes that the industry finances most of the clinical trials into its own products and much of doctors' continuing education, that clinical trials are often conducted on small groups of unrepresentative subjects and negative data is routinely withheld, and that apparently independent academic papers may be planned and even ghostwritten by pharmaceutical companies or their contractors, without disclosure.[3] Describing the situation as a "murderous disaster", he makes suggestions for action by patients' groups, physicians, academics and the industry itself.[4]
Responding to the book's publication, the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry issued a statement in 2012 arguing that the examples the book offers were historical, that the concerns had been addressed, that the industry is among the most regulated in the world, and that it discloses all data in accordance with international standards.[5]
In January 2013 Goldacre joined the Cochrane Collaboration, British Medical Journal and others in setting up AllTrials, a campaign calling for the results of all past and current clinical trials to be reported.[6] The British House of Commons Public Accounts Committee expressed concern in January 2014 that drug companies were still only publishing around 50 percent of clinical-trial results.[7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Pharma
tax paid by company australia
https://www.actu.org.au/actu-media/media-releases/2019/companies-not-paying-tax-bleeding-australia
tax paid by medical companies
https://www.ato.gov.au/Business/International-tax-for-business/In-detail/Pharmaceuticals-Cluster/
Nine global drug companies booked $8 billion in Australian revenue last year but paid just $85 million in tax, a senate committee has heard.
The companies told the committee probing corporate tax avoidance that they all complied with all Australian and international tax laws, a statement that was contested by tax commissioner Chris Jordan.
"One could perhaps see some inconsistency in the common theme that seemed to be stated this morning – that on the one hand they assert they all abide by the OCED guidelines on transfer pricing," Mr Jordan said. "On the other hand they seemed to have no idea what the pricing structure was."
https://www.afr.com/policy/tax-and-super/pharmaceutical-companies-pay-just-85-million-on-8-billion-revenue-20150701-gi25qb
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/sep/18/pharmaceutical-companies-avoided-215m-a-year-in-australian-tax-oxfam-says
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/pharmaceutical-companies-called-on-to-explain-tiny-tax-contribution-20150602-ghf59s.html
pharmacy industry profit trend
Pharmacies are operating on a very small margin with an average pharmacy net profit of $100,756. The industry has seen 2.09% annual growth rate (CAGR) over the past 10 years for net profit as compared to rising expenses of 4.32% (CAGR) per annum, exerting downward pressure on the viability of the industry.
https://www.guild.org.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0024/68613/Guild_Digest_2018_ExecutiveSummary.pdf
https://www.andruswagstaff.com/blog/big-pharma-has-higher-profit-margins-than-any-other-industry/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterubel/2016/07/29/is-the-golden-era-of-pharmaceutical-profits-over/#619dd5b87207
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnlamattina/2018/01/23/about-those-soaring-pharma-profits/#13bddaca3f9d
Analysing the profits of 35 large pharma companies
The study compared the profits of 35 large pharmaceutical companies with those of 347 companies from the S&P 500 Index. During the period from 2000 through 2018, the pharmaceutical companies had a cumulative revenue of $11.5 trillion (€10.35 trillion) and cumulative net income of $1.9tr (€1.71tr).
Net income also called "earnings" reflects the difference between all revenues and expenses and is a company's "bottom line" used in calculating earnings per share. Over this same period, the median net income margin (the percentage of revenue remaining after deducting all expenses) for pharmaceutical companies was 13.7% compared to 7.7% for S&P 500 companies, a difference of 6.1%.
However, when comparing pharmaceutical companies to those S&P 500 companies reporting research and development expenses and considering the effects of company size and time trends, the difference in median profits was 3.6%, and pharmaceutical companies were not more profitable than those companies in the technology sector or healthcare companies developing non-pharmaceutical products.
https://www.healtheuropa.eu/pharma-companies-are-more-profitable-than-most-sp-500-companies/98229/
https://www2.deloitte.com/xe/en/insights/industry/life-sciences/pharmaceutical-industry-trends.html
profit by industry
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile/margin.html
https://www.forbes.com/pictures/feki45efjgh/the-15-most-profitable-i/#222457ce7a39
https://www.ibisworld.com/australia/industry-trends/industries-highest-profit-margin/
https://www.ibisworld.com/united-states/industry-trends/industries-highest-profit-margin/
https://financialrhythm.com/profitability-margins-industry/
medical company spending breakdown
https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/health-welfare-expenditure/health-expenditure-australia-2017-18/contents/summary
https://www.statista.com/statistics/275384/marketing-budgets-of-us-health-care-companies/
Of the nearly $30 billion that health companies now spend on medical marketing each year, around 68 percent (or about $20 billion) goes to persuading doctors and other medical professionals—not consumers—of the benefits of prescription drugs. That's according to an in-depth analysis published in JAMA this week. The study broke down exactly how health companies convinced us to spend enormous sums on our care between 1997 and 2016. In that time, health companies went from spending $17.7 billion to $29.9 billion on medical marketing. Meanwhile, US healthcare spending hit $3.3 trillion, or 17.8 percent of the GDP, in 2016.
The finding that pharmaceutical companies spend most of their marketing oomph on charming doctors isn't surprising, though. In 1997, a whopping 88 percent ($15.6 billion of their total $17.7 billion) of medical marketing went to swaying doctors, according to the analysis. And the way in which drug companies woo doctors hasn't changed much either. They largely do so by sending sales representatives to doctors' offices for face-to-face visits, providing free drug samples and other swag, offering payments for speeches, food and beverages, travel, and hosting disease "education."
What's new—and why this is now a shadier situation—is the explosion of direct-to-consumer (DTC) marketing that couples with those efforts for a one-two marketing punch. DTC advertising more than quadrupled in the timeframe of the analysis. That is, money spent on DTC—mostly TV commercials and glossy magazine ads—went from $2.1 billion in 1997 to $9.6 billion in 2016. And of that $9.6 billion, about $6 billion was for marketing prescription drugs, the analysis found.
That boom in DTC ads "increases the need for clinicians to help patients understand product claims, medical need, cost, and nonmedical alternatives," according to health policy experts Selena Ortiz, of Pennsylvania State University, and Meredith Rosenthal, of Harvard. In an accompanying editorial in JAMA, the pair notes that this increased reliance on doctors can be fraught with pitfalls because doctors can be biased and misled by marketing just like consumers, earlier research found. This "suggests that professionals may need further education or support to serve as the arbiter of deceptive marketing," they write.
Ultimately, "trust in physicians and health care institutions may be at stake if medical marketing… continues to increase unchecked," they conclude.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/01/healthcare-industry-spends-30b-on-marketing-most-of-it-goes-to-doctors/
Pharmaceutical companies spend, on average, 17% of revenues on research and development (R&D), making it one of the biggest spenders in this area. Outside of the semiconductor industry, no other industry spends more on R&D.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
On average, pharmaceutical companies spend 17% of revenues on research and development (R&D).
Pharmaceutical companies are heavily reliant on research and development as their success is contingent on the development of new drugs.
Out of the top 20 largest R&D spenders, pharmaceutical companies account for nearly half.
R&D Spending in the Pharmaceutical Industry
The pharmaceutical industry's lifeblood is R&D. The success of major drug companies is almost wholly dependent upon the discovery and development of new medicines, and their allocation of capital expenditures reflects that fact. Although the average spending is 17% of revenues, some companies spend substantially more.
As of 2019, many of the largest pharmaceutical firms spend nearly 20% on R&D. Of the 20 largest R&D spending industries in the world, the pharmaceutical industry makes up nearly half the list. As of June 30, 2019, AstraZeneca (AZN) blazed the path by spending 25.63% of revenues on research and development. Holding strong, Eli Lilly (LLY) spent 22.38% of its revenues on R&D as of March 31, 2019. Roche Holding AG (RHHBY) wasn't far behind with 21.29% spent on R&D as of June 30, 2019. Falling just below 20%, multinational biotechnology companies Biogen (BIIB) and Merck spent 15.41% as of June 30, 2019, and 19.70% as of March 31, 2019, respectively. Pfizer (PFE) and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) are closer to the 15% level. On the lower end of the spectrum, Abbott Laboratories (ABT) dedicates about 7% of revenues to R&D spending as of June 30, 2019.
Many smaller pharma companies have lower revenue totals; so, they often spend significantly higher percentages of their budget on R&D – up to 50% for some firms.
Average Industrial Research and Development Spending
A quick survey of other industries clearly shows how much most of them are outspent in R&D by pharmaceutical companies. The overall average spending on R&D by industries engaged in developing new products is a mere 1.3% of sales revenues. The chemicals sector, one of the larger R&D sectors, spends an average of 2 to 3%. Aerospace and defense firms, although they do a great deal of research and development work, only dedicate about 4 to 5% of revenues to R&D spending.
Internet companies are closer to pharmaceutical firms in R&D spending, with both Microsoft and Google spending approximately 12% of sales revenues on R&D. However, other technology sector companies don't typically approach that level of spending. Even a company known for technological innovation, such as Apple, spends less than 3% of revenues on R&D; IBM spends a little more than that.
The semiconductor industry is the only industry that regularly outpaces pharmaceutical companies in R&D spending as a percentage of sales revenues. The major semiconductor firms, such as Broadcom, regularly spend approximately 25 to 28% of revenues on R&D.
The high level of R&D expenditures in the pharmaceutical industry is easy to understand given the cost of developing a new drug and bringing it to market. The average R&D to marketplace cost for a new medicine is nearly $4 billion, and can sometimes exceed $10 billion.
https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/060115/how-much-drug-companys-spending-allocated-research-and-development-average.asp
- it makes sense that a lot is spent on marketing, public relations, PSYOPS, etc... if treatment efficiency are relatively semi-random in the medical industry (this conundrum reminds me of the disillusionment that a lot of Cold War defectors talk about but doesn't go to it's core. Let's say we knew that this was the best that humanity as a group could achieve. The only thing that holds us together are lies and hope that we'll find people who will do the "right thing"?)? You can see a lot of techniques used in the intelligence world in the medical world? Doctors get money/bribes/incentives to recommend particular medications, pharmaceutical companies will not disclose research if it finds alternatives that work just as well as more expensive products that they produce, disclose good resarch that works in their favour, occasional insider trading, bribe politicians via lobbying grups, fund research into non-existent illness, etc? More evidence of systemic bias, corruption, nepotism, etc? It's easy to see how the top become very wealthy very quickly and inequality spreads out if you read between the lines and understand where they're making the gains?
medical corruption
Corruption in global health: the open secret
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=yuri+bezmenov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Bezmenov
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/02/a-new-cold-war-economic-crisis-and-more.html?m=0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Soviet_and_Eastern_Bloc_defectors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Western_Bloc_defectors
Whistleblower -  NSA Goal Is 'Total Population Control'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF_VYNtDgN8
We Need Cornel West & Gramsci To Understand Hegemony (TMBS 130)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI_cFQQdu18
How Corrupt is America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2nVElYOHYw
America Was Built on Corruption
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG2i7Emc43k
A Republic No More - Big Government and the Rise of American Political Corruption
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-XE7K7YzyA
Corruption & Political Salaries _ Rwitwika Bhattacharya _ TEDxTughlaqRd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dldPJYZRmOg
How Government Corruption is a Precursor to Extremism _ Sarah Chayes _ TEDxFultonStreet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoiVyzlit5I
How to Fix America's Corrupt Political System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhe286ky-9A
Political corruption and corruption as a political strategy (Main Camera)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFPwlMSPwG8
Political corruption and corruption as a political strategy (Projector screen)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD7LbX2FwEc
Political Corruption Explained (Camera 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT0cHVOcUOU
Political Corruption Explained (Main Camera)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PUUaZulM_4
The Costs of Political Corruption in America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br2jRNaJOEs
fraud as a proportion of global gdp
https://www.accountancydaily.co/global-fraud-costs-balloon-ps389-trillion
https://www.accountancydaily.co/global-cost-fraud-tops-ps3-trillion
"In the ten years since the first Financial Cost of Fraud report was published, the global economy has suffered rising losses each year, owing to a multitude of new and diverse threats. Losses in 2018 averaged 7.15% of expenditure, compared to 4.6% in 2007.
"The figures quoted in the 2019 report are stark. Globally, fraud losses equate to a shocking US$5.127 trillion each year, which represents almost 70% of the $7.442 trillion which world spends on healthcare each year [1].
https://www.crowe.com/global/news/fraud-costs-the-global-economy-over-us$5-trillion
In First-Ever Meeting on Corruption, Briefer Says War Has Been 'Very Lucrative' for Small Groups of Conflict Profiteers
In its first‑ever meeting to address the links between corruption and conflict, the Security Council today considered ways to effectively disrupt the illicit siphoning of money by leaders and other practices that weaken State institutions, thereby making a country susceptible to conflict.
"Corruption breeds disillusion with Government and governance and is often at the root of political dysfunction and social disunity," Secretary-General António Guterres told the 15‑member Council, which bears the mandate for the maintenance of international peace and security.
Noting that corruption can also be a driver of conflict, upon which it thrives, and is linked to such forms of instability as illicit trafficking in arms, drugs and people, terrorism and violent extremism, he stressed that the problem is present in all nations — rich and poor, North and South, developed and developing.  Citing estimates by the World Economic Forum, he said the global cost of corruption is at least $2.6 trillion, or 5 per cent of the global gross domestic product (GDP), adding that, according to the World Bank, businesses and individuals pay more than $1 trillion in bribes every year.
Also briefing the Council was John Prendergast, Founding Director of the Enough Project and Co‑founder of The Sentry, who said:  "Regrettably, there is currently no coordinated strategy to gain the necessary leverage to disrupt the illicit siphoning of money by leaders and their foreign business partners, or to break the link between corruption and conflict."  He added:  "Throughout history, war may have been hell, but it has been very lucrative for small groups of conflict profiteers."  Today's deadliest conflicts in Africa, such as those in South Sudan, Somalia, northern Nigeria, Sudan, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, are sustained by extraordinary opportunities for illicit self‑enrichment that emerge in war economies, where there is a visible nexus between grand corruption and mass atrocities, he said, calling upon the Council and other interested parties to take the necessary measures, such as levying sanctions against entire networks, not just individuals; strengthening anti‑money‑laundering measures; and prosecuting financial crimes associated with atrocities.
Global Cost of Corruption at Least 5 Per Cent of World Gross Domestic Product, Secretary-General Tells Security Council, Citing World Economic Forum Data
https://www.un.org/press/en/2018/sc13493.doc.htm
https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/money-laundering/globalization.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/10/cvresume-harvesting-research-notes.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/12/mental-illness-and-human-mind-control.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/11/a-sea-of-fakery-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2018/03/whitepaper-examine-script-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/07/neuroscience-in-psyops-world-order.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/05/more-psyops-social-systems-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/04/more-psyops-random-thoughts-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/04/hybrid-warfare-more-psyops-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/03/psychological-warfaremind-control-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2015/12/understanding-propaganda-us-anti-war.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2018/03/whitepaper-examine-script-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/11/a-sea-of-fakery-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/04/news-feed-bias-checker-random-stuff-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/04/news-bias-checker-2-random-stuff-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/05/news-homepage-bias-check-random-stuff.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/what-happened-to-escaped-nazis-random.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/things-spies-have-stolen-random-stuff.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/cybersecurity-attack-background.html
insider trading medical industry statistics
https://www.uspharmacist.com/article/insider-trading-and-clinical-trials
A 2006 study from Stanford University looked at more than 3,000 planned insider trades across all industries and found that executives' stock sales systematically came just before bad news and right on the heels of good, helping them maximize returns and minimize losses.
And if you subtract trades that some executives schedule to be executed at the same time each year, it looks even fishier. A 2012 Harvard University study examined two decades of irregularly timed insider trades. Those transactions beat the market by as much as 25 percent each year, researchers found, suggesting insiders have a serious edge over external investors.
Those two findings are particularly pertinent in biotech, an industry known for its stock volatility, said Alan Jagolinzer, who authored the Stanford study and is now a professor of finance at the University of Colorado. A company can be completely wiped out by a bad clinical trial and boosted fivefold by a good one; the timing of a trade can swing tens of millions of dollars.
So how are executives beating the spread?
One possibility, Jagolinzer said, is by taking advantage of a wrinkle in the law: Holders of 10b5-1 plans are allowed to cancel them at any time and for any reason, and they don't have to disclose that to the public. (They also aren't required to disclose the existence of their plans ahead of time.)
Let's say a biotech CEO learns that, in two days, her company is going to announce clinical results that will surely boost its stock price. She can't legally buy up a bunch of the company's shares right then — that would be the bad kind of insider trading — but she can cancel a scheduled 10b5-1 sale to avoid dumping stock just before its price soars.
"That is a strategy that can be technically compliant with the rule," Jagolinzer said.
https://www.statnews.com/2016/08/08/insider-trading-biotech/
https://fintel.io/n/us/nhtc?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=414452be938beb24fd89113861f4475b922fdeaf-1604242477-0-AQNfvfRgU9e_dfpabar8NCynE0ihWSQl8nh8MQghXjJs_mSMeGspDBg1tylGcPR1jxC2t9g7R0w8H69j8hzq-BL0gCWtbtDBK7nTjROOoVFMJd9P8nzEvuvv0Z37RG-1vAJJV-bbFN7zrn-L7K6Jy9sEETYnkAcggiDRFYna0pbKPOmDsWBaxlEImf0nBbuFDy2WFnrkenh7429Rh1ctLpqFCNv1rq0xxJdsdEZ9CHvMrVXdgOx2rNrcFPHMNogDNnuMDHIyckS3w6H-Mon0gSduRLU3yuQuNuefkG8Hdr-66i4V4SDSGVaAqbXg0mYgRsH-4gXEmbXYsSfy51RWW63nnNypOm_jD3L6w1Ls5XbM
Now a study from the Australian National University suggests directors are illegally using this information to profit.
The ANU looked at 50,000 directors' trades on the ASX from 2005 to 2015 and concluded insider trading is "rife".
The study found a "statistically significant" number of directors were making trades against the flow of the market immediately after a market-sensitive company announcement.
"I find that there is significant buying pressure by directors following bad news, and I find there is a lot of selling pressure following good news," lead researcher Dean Katselas told AM.
...
He says directors are using their intimate knowledge of a company, and buying shares after a negative news announcement, for example, confident the share price will improve (after a fall) because they know the company has other growth opportunities.
"So what I'm suggesting is, there is some evidence there that directors are potentially trading on information that they have that the public does not," he said.
"The question that must be asked is 'is this sort of thing desirable?'
"If they are indeed doing this, and if it is beyond a level that we would consider acceptable, we must ask the question, whether it is desirable?"
The ANU's research shows the practice is most common in mining companies, but it can also be seen across all sectors, including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, consumer and other services.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-23/insider-trading-rife-among-asx-company-directors-study-finds/11537080
natural antidepressent
Wedded to drugs that barely work
Ten years ago, when finishing medical school, I carefully considered going into psychiatry. Ultimately, I was turned off by my impression that thought leaders in psychiatry were mistakenly wedded to a drug treatment that barely works.
A 2004 review by the Cochrane Foundation found that when compared against an "active" placebo (one that causes side effects similar to antidepressants), antidepressants were statistically of almost undetectable benefit.
Studies that compared antidepressants to "dummy" placebos showed larger but still underwhelming results. On the 52-point Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS), patients who took the antidepressants fluoxetine (Prozac) or venlafaxine (Effexor) experienced an average decrease of 11.8 points, whereas those taking the placebo experienced an average decrease of 9.6 points.
Symptoms of depression can peak over the winter months. (Shutterstock)
I am not suggesting that antidepressants do not work. I am suggesting that they are given a precedence in our thinking about mental health that they do not deserve.
I leave it to readers to look at the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale and decide for themselves whether a drop of 2.5 points is worth taking a pill with myriad potential side effects including weight gain, erectile dysfunction and internal bleeding.
It might be, but do note that taking an antidepressant does not seem to decrease the risk of suicide.
https://theconversation.com/why-natural-depression-therapies-are-better-than-pills-106152
ineffective medical treatment statistics
Potentially ineffective care. A new outcome to assess the limits of critical care
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7474223/
Before any medical product or procedure is adopted, it must undergo clinical trials to evaluate its effectiveness. In a randomized clinical trial, subjects are assigned to two or more groups with some receiving the treatment and others receiving none, or a placebo. By comparing outcomes between the two groups, we should be able to see just how useful a treatment is. The subjects (and in the gold standard, the double-blind trial, the scientists as well) are not told which group they've been assigned to, theoretically ensuring that there is no bias in reporting about outcomes.
Unfortunately, not all randomized control trials are conducted under ideal circumstances – there can be ethical misconduct (such as financial pressures) as well as design flaws. If the pool of test subjects is too small or heterogeneous, for example, we might not get statistically significant data.
There's also the issue of reproducibility – a trial may show positive results but those results can never be replicated. Inadequate trials can be enough to get the ball rolling on a treatment or, in some cases, off-label usage of an FDA-approved treatment can be suggested by a small study and be taken up by the medical community despite inadequate evidence. That's why we (should) continue to conduct trials on treatments even after they're in use.
In a recent analysis of 3,000 articles from the world's leading medical journals, a team of researchers has found nearly 400 instances in which a treatment turned out to be of little or no use and in need of a reversal. A medical reversal occurs when a superior clinical trial contradicts current clinical practices.
Researchers from Oregon Health & Science University, the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and the University of Chicago published the results of their study in the most recent issue of the open-access journal eLife. (You can find the complete article here.)
In order to get this number, the team analyzed randomized clinical trials published over the last 15 years in three of the world's leading medical journals: the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Lancet, and the New England Journal of Medicine.
Identifying low-value medical practices (those that either don't work or have a cheaper and equally effective alternative) is key to reducing the cost of health care and assuring public trust in medicine. The researchers hope that their work will help eliminate the use of these practices.
So what doesn't work?
The list represents practices from all disciplines of medical care, but reversals were most common in procedures related to cardiovascular disease (accounting for 20% of the 400 ineffective measures) followed by public health/preventive medicine and critical care.
Regarding the type of intervention, medications were the most likely to have the effectiveness called into question by later studies (in 33% of the 3000 articles), followed by a procedure (20% of articles), vitamin/supplement (13%), devices (9%), and system intervention (8%).
A summary of selected reversals found in the course of their research indicates that the following were found to be ineffective or no better than cheaper alternatives:
The use of sertraline and mirtazapine in those with Alzheimer's disease
The use of compression stockings to reduce the risk of deep vein thrombosis after stroke
Mammographic screening every 1–2 years for women ages 40–49
Wearable technology for long-term weight loss
Vitamin A supplementation among neonates at birth
The use of Zopiclone, a non-benzodiazepine sleeping pill, for insomnia
Automated chest compression devices for resuscitation (compared to manual)
Pulmonary Artery Catheterization after congestive heart failure
External hip protectors to prevent hip fractures
Epidural glucocorticoid injections for lumbar stenosis
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jessicabaron/2019/06/13/study-finds-hundreds-of-medical-procedures-to-be-ineffective/?sh=c5a542811389
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/02/when-evidence-says-no-but-doctors-say-yes/517368/
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/patient-safety
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/10/cvresume-harvesting-research-notes.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/education-or-indoctrination-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/mexican-drug-cartel-background-random.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/03/religion-vs-uswestern-leadership-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/is-society-filtering-for-fairnessmerit.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/09/thinking-like-political-elite-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2018/01/capitalism-analysis-religion-23-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/05/is-western-leadership-required-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/08/neo-colonialism-and-neo-liberalism.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/06/religious-conspiracies-is-capitalism.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/01/conspiracy-theories-understanding.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/07/social-engineeringmanipulation-rigging.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/07/neuroscience-in-psyops-world-order.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/02/shadow-government-key-players-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/01/it-business-startup-resources-random.html
- the most common PSYOP tactics is bury research that goes against what you say/impact on yor profit line, don't invest in potential cures so that you can push continuous treatment, lobby against cheaper alternatives against your high profit margin option, promote research that goes with what you want, re-label and markup drugs in spite of no change in active ingredients, change product slightly so you can extend patent rights, spend more on marketing then research but claim that research is the main problem when it comes, push products despite knowing that they're addictive and can cause adverse effects down the line, general price gouging, bribes/kickbacks, etc...
Fake news[a] is untrue information presented as news.[3][4][5] It often has the aim of damaging the reputation of a person or entity, or making money through advertising revenue.[6][7][8]
Once common in print, the prevalence of fake news has increased with the rise of social media, especially the Facebook News Feed.[6][9][10] Political polarization, post-truth politics, confirmation bias,[11] and social media algorithms have been implicated in the spread of fake news.[3][6][12][13] It is sometimes generated and propagated by hostile foreign actors, particularly during elections.[14][15] The use of anonymously-hosted fake news websites has made it difficult to prosecute sources of fake news for libel.[3][16] In some definitions, fake news includes satirical articles misinterpreted as genuine, and articles that employ sensationalist or clickbait headlines that are not supported in the text.[6]
Fake news can reduce the impact of real news by competing with it; a Buzzfeed analysis found that the top fake news stories about the 2016 U.S. presidential election received more engagement on Facebook than top stories from major media outlets.[17] It also has the potential to undermine trust in serious media coverage.[18] The term has at times been used to cast doubt upon legitimate news,[19][20] and U.S. President Donald Trump has been credited with popularizing the term by using it to describe any negative press coverage of himself.[21][22] It has been increasingly criticized, due in part to Trump's misuse, with the British government deciding to avoid the term, as it is "poorly-defined" and "conflates a variety of false information, from genuine error through to foreign interference".[23]
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Claire Wardle of First Draft News identifies seven types of fake news:[30]
satire or parody ("no intention to cause harm but has potential to fool")
false connection ("when headlines, visuals or captions don't support the content")
misleading content ("misleading use of information to frame an issue or an individual")
false context ("when genuine content is shared with false contextual information")
impostor content ("when genuine sources are impersonated" with false, made-up sources)
manipulated content ("when genuine information or imagery is manipulated to deceive", as with a "doctored" photo)
fabricated content ("new content is 100% false, designed to deceive and do harm")
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In November 2017, Claire Wardle (mentioned above) announced she has rejected the phrase "fake news" and "censors it in conversation", finding it "woefully inadequate" to describe the issues. She now speaks of "information pollution" and distinguishes between three types of problems: 'mis-information', 'dis-information', and 'mal-information':
Mis-information: false information disseminated without harmful intent.
Dis-information: created and shared by people with harmful intent.
Mal-information: the sharing of "genuine" information with the intent to cause harm.[37]
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The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) published a summary in diagram form (pictured at right) to assist people in recognizing fake news.[40] Its main points are:
Consider the source (to understand its mission and purpose)
Read beyond the headline (to understand the whole story)
Check the authors (to see if they are real and credible)
Assess the supporting sources (to ensure they support the claims)
Check the date of publication (to see if the story is relevant and up to date)
Ask if it is a joke (to determine if it is meant to be satire)
Review your own biases (to see if they are affecting your judgment)
Ask experts (to get confirmation from independent people with knowledge).[41]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_news
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/1808753731861/Fake-News-A-True-History
BBC Four - Ian Hislop's Fake News: A True History
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00095hv
A True History of Fake News by Ian Hislop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D65EujPCQQ
AskProfWolff - Medicare For All vs. Employer Med Plan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4GB28n1-ng
Skewering Pharma CEO's For Price Gouging
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S54zoA2gcKs
FULL SHOW - Purdue Pharma criminally charged for role in opioid crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EPCCNwJhIQ
https://townhall.com/columnists/gilgutknecht/2019/08/05/trumps-instincts-on-prescription-drugs-are-spot-on-n2551196
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-23/mundipharma-hit-by-fine-for-misleading-local-doctors-over-opiods/11823280
corruption medical industry
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/21/mark-zuckerberg-plea-biillionaire-class-anti-democratic
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/oct/21/scientists-may-have-crossed-ethical-line-in-growing-human-brains
medical fraud statistics
In 2018, $3.6 trillion was spent on health care in the United States, representing billions health insurance claims. It is an undisputed reality that some of these claims are fraudulent. Although they constitute only a small fraction, those fraudulent claims carry a very high price tag, both financially and in how they impact our perception of the integrity and value of our health care system.
The National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association (NHCAA) estimates that the financial losses due to health care fraud are in the tens of billions of dollars each year. A conservative estimate is 3% of total health care expenditures, while some government and law enforcement agencies place the loss as high as 10% of our annual health outlay, which could mean more than $300 billion.
Whether you have employer-sponsored health insurance or you purchase your own insurance policy through HealthCare.gov, a state marketplace or the individual market, health care fraud inevitably translates into higher premiums and out-of-pocket expenses for consumers, as well as reduced benefits or coverage. For employers—private and government alike—health care fraud increases the cost of providing insurance benefits to employees which, in turn, increases the overall cost of doing business. For many Americans, the increased expense resulting from fraud could mean the difference between making health insurance a reality or not.
However, financial losses caused by health care fraud are only part of the story. Health care fraud has a human face too. Individual victims of health care fraud are sadly easy to find. These are people who are exploited and subjected to unnecessary or unsafe medical procedures. Or whose medical records are compromised or whose legitimate insurance information is used to submit falsified claims.
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Some of the more common types of fraud committed by dishonest providers include:
Billing for services that were never rendered—by using genuine patient information, sometimes obtained through identity theft, to fabricate entire claims or by padding otherwise legitimate claims with charges for procedures or services that did not take place.
Billing for more expensive services or procedures than were actually provided or performed, commonly known as "upcoding"—i.e., falsely billing for a higher-priced treatment than was actually provided (which often requires the accompanying "inflation" of the patient's diagnosis code to a more serious condition consistent with the false procedure code).
Performing medically unnecessary services solely for the purpose of generating insurance payments—this is seen very often in diagnostic-testing schemes such as nerve-conduction and genetic testing.
Misrepresenting non-covered treatments as medically necessary covered treatments for purposes of obtaining insurance payments—this is widely seen in cosmetic-surgery schemes, in which non-covered cosmetic procedures such as "nose jobs" are billed to patients' insurers as deviated-septum repairs.
Falsifying a patient's diagnosis and medical record to justify tests, surgeries or other procedures that aren't medically necessary.
Unbundling—billing for each step of a procedure as if they are separate procedures.
Billing a patient more than the required co-pay amount for services that were prepaid or paid-in-full by the benefit plan under the terms of a managed care contract.
Accepting kickbacks for patient referrals.
Waiving patient co-pays or deductibles for medical or dental care and over-billing the insurance carrier or benefit plan (insurers often set the policy with regard to the waiver of co-pays through its provider contracting process; while, under Medicare, routinely waiving co-pays is prohibited and may only be waived due to "financial hardship").
https://www.nhcaa.org/resources/health-care-anti-fraud-resources/the-challenge-of-health-care-fraud/
Health care fraud includes "snake oil" marketing, health insurance fraud, drug fraud, and medical fraud. Health insurance fraud occurs when a company or an individual defrauds an insurer or government health care program, such as Medicare (United States) or equivalent State programs. The manner in which this is done varies, and persons engaging in fraud are always seeking new ways to circumvent the law. Damages from fraud can be recovered by use of the False Claims Act, most commonly under the qui tam provisions which rewards an individual for being a "whistleblower", or relator (law).[1]
Contents
1 Recent news and statistics
2 Types
2.1 Billing for services not rendered
2.2 Upcoding of services
2.3 Upcoding of items
2.4 Duplicate claims
2.5 Unbundling
2.6 Excessive services
2.7 Unnecessary services
2.8 Kickbacks
3 Examples
4 Reporting fraud
5 See also
6 References
7 External links
Recent news and statistics
The FBI estimates that Health Care Fraud costs American tax payers $80 billion a year.[2] Of this amount $2.5 billion was recovered through False Claims Act cases in FY 2010. Most of these cases were filed under qui tam provisions.
Over the course of FY 2010, whistleblowers were paid a total of $307,620,401.00 for their part in bringing the cases forward.[3]
Types
There are several different schemes[4] used to defraud the Health care system.
Billing for services not rendered
Upcoding of services
Upcoding of items
Duplicate claims
Unbundling
Excessive services
Unnecessary services
Kickbacks
Copied and pasted entries into the medical record[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_fraud
don't invest in cures
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/goldman-asks-is-curing-patients-a-sustainable-business-model.html
https://financialtribune.com/articles/world-economy/85356/wall-street-admits-curing-diseases-is-bad-for-business
The problem with curing diseases | Value Research
https://www.valueresearchonline.com/story/h2_storyView.asp?str=35533
- there are some doctors/scientists/patients who realise that there have been cover ups and are looking at alternative perspectives/cures? Some have been successful. Would be interested to know how many illnesses can be cured but are being covered up?
The Big Lies about Type 2 Diabetes
Covid Drug Covered Up Because It's Less Profitable (MOC Breaking News)
“Often the worst thing you can do with a difficult question is to try to answer it too quickly. “ —Warren Berger, A More Beautiful Question
Our Focus
The purpose of our lab is twofold. First, we aim to identify the molecular mechanisms that explain the increased risk of disease that accompanies weight gain, with particular emphasis on the etiology of insulin resistance and disrupted mitochondrial function. Second, we hope to reveal novel cellular processes that are responsible for fat development.
- as an aside I didn't realise how many of the major breakthroughs have been via accident and that the same compounds/techniques have been used for various illnesses for decades/centuries/millennia? Genuine progress in the medical science area has been very slow?
medicines discovered by accident
Six drugs discovered by accident
Penicillin.
The Birth Control Pill.
Chloral hydrate.
Iproniazid.
LSD.
Viagra.
Viagra
Penicillin
Heart pacemaker
Stomach ulcers
Antidepressants
Valium
Alphabet-owned DeepMind may be best known for building the AI that beat a world-class Go player, but the company announced another, perhaps more vital breakthrough this morning. As part of its work for the 14th Critical Assessment of Protein Structure Prediction, or CASP, DeepMind's AlphaFold 2 AI has shown it can guess how certain proteins will fold themselves with surprising accuracy. In some cases, the results were perceived to be "competitive" with actual, experimental data.
"We have been stuck on this one problem – how do proteins fold up – for nearly 50 years," said Professor John Moult, CASP chair and co-founder, in a DeepMind blog post. "To see DeepMind produce a solution for this, having worked personally on this problem for so long and after so many stops and starts, wondering if we’d ever get there, is a very special moment."
what drugs haven't changed
oldest drugs
In 1869, while studying the structure of the pancreas under a microscope, Paul Langerhans, a medical student in Berlin, identified some previously unnoticed tissue clumps scattered throughout the bulk of the pancreas.[108] The function of the "little heaps of cells", later known as the islets of Langerhans, initially remained unknown, but Édouard Laguesse later suggested they might produce secretions that play a regulatory role in digestion.[109] Paul Langerhans' son, Archibald, also helped to understand this regulatory role.
In 1889, the physician Oskar Minkowski, in collaboration with Joseph von Mering, removed the pancreas from a healthy dog to test its assumed role in digestion. On testing the urine, they found sugar, establishing for the first time a relationship between the pancreas and diabetes. In 1901, another major step was taken by the American physician and scientist Eugene Lindsay Opie, when he isolated the role of the pancreas to the islets of Langerhans: "Diabetes mellitus when the result of a lesion of the pancreas is caused by destruction of the islands of Langerhans and occurs only when these bodies are in part or wholly destroyed".[110][111][112]
Over the next two decades researchers made several attempts to isolate the islets' secretions. In 1906 George Ludwig Zuelzer achieved partial success in treating dogs with pancreatic extract, but he was unable to continue his work. Between 1911 and 1912, E.L. Scott at the University of Chicago tried aqueous pancreatic extracts and noted "a slight diminution of glycosuria", but was unable to convince his director of his work's value; it was shut down. Israel Kleiner demonstrated similar effects at Rockefeller University in 1915, but World War I interrupted his work and he did not return to it.[113]
In 1916, Nicolae Paulescu developed an aqueous pancreatic extract which, when injected into a diabetic dog, had a normalizing effect on blood-sugar levels. He had to interrupt his experiments because of World War I, and in 1921 he wrote four papers about his work carried out in Bucharest and his tests on a diabetic dog. Later that year, he published "Research on the Role of the Pancreas in Food Assimilation".[114][115]
The name "insulin" was coined by Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer in 1916 for a hypothetical molecule produced by pancreatic islets of Langerhans (Latin insula for islet or island) that controls glucose metabolism. Unbeknown to Sharpey-Schafer, Jean de Meyer had introduced very similar word "insuline" in 1909 for the same molecule.[116][117]
how were vaccines discovered
The term inoculation is often used interchangeably with vaccination. However, the terms are not synonymous. Dr Byron Plant explains: "Vaccination is the more commonly used term, which actually consists of a 'safe' injection of a sample taken from a cow suffering from cowpox... Inoculation, a practice probably as old as the disease itself, is the injection of the variola virus taken from a pustule or scab of a smallpox sufferer into the superficial layers of the skin, commonly on the upper arm of the subject. Often inoculation was done 'arm-to-arm' or, less effectively, 'scab-to-arm'..." Inoculation oftentimes caused the patient to become infected with smallpox, and in some cases the infection turned into a severe case.[26][27]
Confirmed applications of inoculation for smallpox happened in China in the 1550s.
Vaccinations began in the 18th century with the work of Edward Jenner and the smallpox vaccine.[28][29][30]
what drugs have been discovered through research and not luck
Serendipity is one of the many factors that may contribute to drug discovery. It has played a role in the discovery of prototype psychotropic drugs that led to modern pharmacological treatment in psychiatry. It has also played a role in the discovery of several drugs that have had an impact on the development of psychiatry, “Serendipity” in drug discovery implies the finding of one thing while looking for something else. This was the case in six of the twelve serendipitous discoveries reviewed in this paper, ie, aniline purple, penicillin, lysergic acid diethylamide, meprobamate, chlorpromazine, and imipramine, in the case of three drugs, ie, potassium bromide, chloral hydrate, and lithium, the discovery was serendipitous because an utterly false rationale led to correct empirical results; and in case of two others, ie, iproniazid and sildenafil, because valuable indications were found for these drugs which were not initially those sought. The discovery of one of the twelve drugs, chlordiazepoxide, was sheer luck.
Keywords: chloral hydrate, chlorpromazine, imipramine, iproniazid, lithium, lysergic acid diethylamide, meprobamate, penicillin, serendipity, sildenafil
The role of serendipity in drug discovery
Royston Roberts says that various discoveries required a degree of genius, but also some lucky element for that genius to act on.[14] Richard Gaughan writes that accidental discoveries result from the convergence of preparation, opportunity, and desire.[15]
An example of luck in science is when drugs under investigation become known for different, unexpected uses. This was the case for minoxidil (an antihypertensive vasodilator that was subsequently found to also slow hair loss and promote hair regrowth in some people) and for sildenafil (a medicine for pulmonary arterial hypertension, now familiar as "Viagra", used to treat erectile dysfunction).
The hallucinogenic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) were discovered by Albert Hofmann, who was originally working with the substance to try and treat migraines and bleeding after childbirth. Hofmann experienced mental distortions and suspected it may have been the effects of LSD. He decided to test this hypothesis on himself by taking what he thought was "an extremely small quantity": 250 micrograms. For comparison, a typical dose of LSD for recreational use in the modern day is 50 micrograms. Hofmann's description of what he experienced as a result of taking so much LSD is regarded by Royston Roberts as "one of the most frightening accounts in recorded medical history".[14]
drugs have been discovered through research and not luck
Serendipity is one of the many factors that may contribute to drug discovery. It has played a role in the discovery of prototype psychotropic drugs that led to modern pharmacological treatment in psychiatry. It has also played a role in the discovery of several drugs that have had an impact on the development of psychiatry, “Serendipity” in drug discovery implies the finding of one thing while looking for something else. This was the case in six of the twelve serendipitous discoveries reviewed in this paper, ie, aniline purple, penicillin, lysergic acid diethylamide, meprobamate, chlorpromazine, and imipramine, in the case of three drugs, ie, potassium bromide, chloral hydrate, and lithium, the discovery was serendipitous because an utterly false rationale led to correct empirical results; and in case of two others, ie, iproniazid and sildenafil, because valuable indications were found for these drugs which were not initially those sought. The discovery of one of the twelve drugs, chlordiazepoxide, was sheer luck.
Keywords: chloral hydrate, chlorpromazine, imipramine, iproniazid, lithium, lysergic acid diethylamide, meprobamate, penicillin, serendipity, sildenafil
The role of serendipity in drug discovery
Royston Roberts says that various discoveries required a degree of genius, but also some lucky element for that genius to act on.[14] Richard Gaughan writes that accidental discoveries result from the convergence of preparation, opportunity, and desire.[15]
An example of luck in science is when drugs under investigation become known for different, unexpected uses. This was the case for minoxidil (an antihypertensive vasodilator that was subsequently found to also slow hair loss and promote hair regrowth in some people) and for sildenafil (a medicine for pulmonary arterial hypertension, now familiar as "Viagra", used to treat erectile dysfunction).
The hallucinogenic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) were discovered by Albert Hofmann, who was originally working with the substance to try and treat migraines and bleeding after childbirth. Hofmann experienced mental distortions and suspected it may have been the effects of LSD. He decided to test this hypothesis on himself by taking what he thought was "an extremely small quantity": 250 micrograms. For comparison, a typical dose of LSD for recreational use in the modern day is 50 micrograms. Hofmann's description of what he experienced as a result of taking so much LSD is regarded by Royston Roberts as "one of the most frightening accounts in recorded medical history".[14]
1 Overview
2 Detailed examples
2.1 Newton and gravity
2.2 Nobel and blasting gelatin
2.3 Pasteur
2.3.1 Chirality
2.3.2 Chicken cholera vaccine
3 References
- technically, this isn't medically corruption related but many of the common ideas present elsewhere in society is present within this profession as well such as sexism, bullying, harassment, etc...
When Mulligan studied medicine in the 1970s, she was working from an anatomy textbook that had one page on vulvar anatomy and "five pages of penises from every possible angle".
It is only marginally better now. James Cook university, where de Costa teaches, holds a one-hour lecture in fifth year about the role of clitoris in sexual function. The curriculum to be a fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists covers sexual function and related disorders, but not specifically the function of the clitoris. The college said it encourages "self-directed learning" and "acknowledges a long history of poor understanding of female anatomy and female sexuality".
"RANZCOG supports all efforts to improve knowledge of genitourinary anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology, with the aim of best practice in women's health," the college said in a statement.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/nov/01/the-sole-function-of-the-clitoris-is-female-orgasm-is-that-why-its-ignored-by-medical-science
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-02/bullying-in-medicine-policies-do-not-change-culture/11980240
- I suspect that the US/Western Empire will collapse but I don't think much will change? The Chinese seem just as cynical as the US/West (which is why a lot people are saying that their rise needs to be "managed")? The tragedy here is that we may set to lose out with regards to traditional, herbal, alternative medicines? The same mechanisms for creating dependency relationships via imperialism/colonialism still seem to continue to this day?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mickey+blue+eyes+eat+cookie
Eat Fucking Cookie HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4gfx_HcpLE
[Mickey Blue Eyes] - Eat Cookie XD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJvdf8U7C60
Can China be a global leader _ Inside Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0f69m7QZ40
https://www.youtube.com/user/unicef/videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/unicef/playlists
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/program/medicine-or-myth
Molecular medicine is a broad field, where physical, chemical, biological, bioinformatics and medical techniques are used to describe molecular structures and mechanisms, identify fundamental molecular and genetic errors of disease, and to develop molecular interventions to correct them.[1] The molecular medicine perspective emphasizes cellular and molecular phenomena and interventions rather than the previous conceptual and observational focus on patients and their organs.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_medicine
Traditional medicine (also known as indigenous or folk medicine) comprises medical aspects of traditional knowledge that developed over generations within various societies before the era of modern medicine. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines traditional medicine as "the sum total of the knowledge, skills, and practices based on the theories, beliefs, and experiences indigenous to different cultures, whether explicable or not, used in the maintenance of health as well as in the prevention, diagnosis, improvement or treatment of physical and mental illness".[1] Traditional medicine is contrasted with scientific medicine.
In some Asian and African countries, up to 80% of the population relies on traditional medicine for their primary health care needs. When adopted outside its traditional culture, traditional medicine is often considered a form of alternative medicine.[1] Practices known as traditional medicines include traditional European medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, traditional indigenous Mayongia magic and medicine(Assam), traditional indigenous medicine of Assam and rest of NE India, traditional Korean medicine, traditional African medicine, Ayurveda, Siddha medicine, Unani, ancient Iranian Medicine, Iranian (Persian), Islamic medicine, Muti, and Ifá. Scientific disciplines which study traditional medicine include herbalism, ethnomedicine, ethnobotany, and medical anthropology.
The WHO notes, however, that "inappropriate use of traditional medicines or practices can have negative or dangerous effects" and that "further research is needed to ascertain the efficacy and safety" of such practices and medicinal plants used by traditional medicine systems.[1] Ultimately, the WHO has implemented a nine-year strategy to "support Member States in developing proactive policies and implementing action plans that will strengthen the role traditional medicine plays in keeping populations healthy."[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_medicine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_in_ancient_Greece
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_in_ancient_Rome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_in_medieval_Islam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_medicine_of_Western_Europe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbal_medicine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_African_medicine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_medicine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicinal_plants
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayurveda
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_healer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_medicine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_traditional_medicine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumash_traditional_medicine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curandero
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kallawaya
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapuche_medicine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_medicine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_medicine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Alaska_Native_medicine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Iranian_medicine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioprospecting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngozi_Okonjo-Iweala
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History
Colonial era
Modern science has considered methods of traditional knowledge as primitive[7] and under colonial rule some traditional medical practices were outlawed.[1] During this time, attempts were also made to control the sale of herbal medicines.[1] For example, after Mozambique gained independence in 1975, attempts to control traditional medicine went as far as sending diviner-healers to re-education camps.[1] As colonialism and Christianity spread through Africa, colonialists built general hospitals and Christian missionaries built private ones, with the hopes of making headway against widespread diseases. However, little was done to investigate the legitimacy of the traditional medical practices, despite the obvious role that the traditional healers played in the basic health needs of their communities; the colonial authorities along with doctors and health practitioners continued to shun their contributions.[7] It was also believed that during times of conflict people were more likely to resort to supernatural explanations and would seek treatment involving the supernatural.[1]
Modern period
Nurse at Koidu Hospital in Sierra Leone consulting with patients.
For various reasons, in the late 20th century the traditional systems of medical care in developing countries underwent a major revival.[7] These countries also realized that modern health care systems and the technologies that they are dependent on are not locally manufactured and maintained thus making them expensive and rendering the population dependent on supply-chains that might be erratic[7] or politicised.[8] Due to this, interest in integrating traditional African medicine into the continent's national health care systems has increased[1] and the use of traditional medicinal plants is being encouraged in some countries.[7] An African healer embraced this concept by starting a 48-bed hospital, the first of its kind, in Kwa-Mhlanga, South Africa, which combines traditional African methods with other alternative medical practices such as homeopathy, iridology, and traditional Asian medicine.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_African_medicine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_medicine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_medicine
Remedies
Herbal medicine is a major component of traditional medicine. The Aboriginal people view E. alternifolia, a plant considered by some Australians as an invasive weed, as a valued medicinal plant and some carry the leaves with them. They use it to treat symptoms of the common cold and flu, with some also viewing it as a cure.[8]
Other plants used in bush medicine includes the leaves of the emu bush, which some Northern Territory Aboriginal people used to sterilise sores and cuts. It could also be gargled when necessary. The stinging nettle has also been used in some Aboriginal bush medicine to treat paralysis and rheumatism.[9]
Mitchell Park, now within Cattai National Park and situated near Sydney Basin in NSW, had many plants that were used as remedies for Aboriginal people.[10] Nine species of eucalyptus present in the park could act as remedies. The red gum kino is known to be rich in astringent tannins.[11] Additionally, this park also contained native pants that were actually used by early European settlers. The nectar-laden liquid from banksia flowers was used as a cough syrup, and from the native grapes (Cissus hypoglauca) a throat gargle was made.[11]
The use of animals and other living things may also be used in bush medicine. In Warrabri, Northern Territory, one cure for earache is squeezing the fatty part of a witchetty grub into the sore ear.[12] In Uluru, the cure involves squeezing rabbit urine into the ear.[13]
Healers
Aboriginal people believe that their healers, their "medicine men", have special powers which are bestowed upon them by their spiritual ancestors to heal. They have the roles of both a general practitioner and a psychiatrist, healing both the body and mind.[14]
For the Aṉangu of the Western Desert cultural bloc, practitioners of bush medicine are known as ngangkari. They cure illnesses through healing rituals that may involve magic. An example of such ritual would be singing, massaging and sucking to remove a foreign object that has entered the body, and invoking the power of the war god Ancestor Ngurunderi to heal the wounds of soldiers caused by spears and clubs. Aside from physical healing, ngangkaris also act as mental health practitioners, as they try to resolve conflicts within the community and offer advice as well. With every sickness, in addition to giving a diagnosis and advice on suitable remedies, the duty of the ngangkari is also to assess the impact of the sickness to the community.[15]
Many Aboriginal people choose to be treated by bush medicine instead of, or as well as, Western treatments for a number of reasons. These include: some Aboriginal people feel uncomfortable and out of place in a sterilised, Western clinic; Aboriginal bush medicine incorporates physical, spiritual and emotional healing, whereas Western medicine does not; and they believe that by using these treatments they are being drawn closer to their ancestors.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_medicine
In Islam, Prophetic medicine (Arabic: الطب النبوي, 'Al-Tibb al-nabawī) is the advice given by the prophet Muhammad with regards to sickness, treatment and hygiene as found in the hadith, and the writings undertaken primarily by non-physician scholars to collect and explicate these traditions.[1][2] It is distinct from Islamic medicine, which is a broader category encompassing a variety of medical practices rooted in Greek natural philosophy. Prophetic medical traditions exhort humans simply not to stop at following Muhammad's teachings, but encourage them to search for cures as well. The literature of prophetic medicine thus occupies a symbolic role in the elucidation of Islamic identity as constituted by a particular set of relationships to science, medicine, technology and nature. There has historically been a tension in the understanding of the medical narratives: are they of the same nature as Muhammad's religious pronouncements, or are they time-sensitive, culturally situated, and thus not representative of a set of eternal medical truths.[3] This body of knowledge was fully articulated only in the 14th century, at which point it was concerned with reconciling Sunnah (traditions) with the foundations of the Galenic humoral theory that was prevalent at the time in the medical institutions of the Islamicate world.[4] It is nonetheless a tradition with continued modern-day currency.[5][6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophetic_medicine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humorism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_in_the_medieval_Islamic_world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodletting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauterization
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_medicine_of_Western_Europe
us share of global gdp trend
https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_gdp_as_a_percentage_of_world_gdp
The following chart shows U.S. GDP as a percentage of global GDP from 1960 to 2014. For example, in 1960, U.S. GDP was $543 billion and global GDP was $1.367 trillion (based on current U.S. Dollars). Therefore, U.S. GDP was 40% of global GDP ($543 billion / $1.367 trillion). This remained stable for nearly a decade despite the distractions of the drug culture, free love, and a strong anti-establishment sentiment among American youth. In 1969, U.S. GDP was still producing 38% of global GDP, but the winds of change were beginning to blow. From 1968 to 1980, a period that included racial unrest, excessive inflation, the misery index, an oil embargo, gasoline shortages, auto manufacturing innovations (i.e. technology), and a host of social and economic challenges, the global significance of the U.S. economy had sharply declined. By 1980, America's contribution to the global economy had fallen to 26%. Enter President Reagan and supply-side economics.
During the first term of the Reagan administration, America's economic role in the world increased substantially, rising to 34% of global GDP by 1985. This was followed by another period of decline, which didn't improve until President Clinton's second term. By the time Clinton left office, U.S. contribution to global GDP was 32%. It was downhill from there. Today, U.S. GDP contributes only 22% of the world's economic output. What happened? Why has America's role in the global economy declined nearly 50% since 1960?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikepatton/2016/02/29/u-s-role-in-global-economy-declines-nearly-50/#7bf995a5e9e7
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ugly_American
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom%27s_Cabin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_Corps
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/483923-democrats-media-trump-covid19-fail/
uk share of global gdp
https://www.statista.com/statistics/270452/united-kingdoms-share-of-global-gross-domestic-product-gdp/
https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/United-Kingdom/gdp_share/
https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/gdp_share/
https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/China/gdp_share/
https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/USA/gdp_share/
https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/South-Korea/gdp_share/
france share global gdp trend
https://www.statista.com/statistics/270440/frances-share-of-global-gross-domestic-product-gdp/
https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/France/gdp_share/
russia share of global gdp trend
https://www.statista.com/statistics/271379/russias-share-of-global-gross-domestic-product-gdp/
https://tradingeconomics.com/russia/gdp
- if you examine international bodies then you realise a lot of them create "loop back situations". For instance, suppliers to the UN, WHO, WTO, etc.. come primarily from the "major power" style countries in spite of better deals possibly being available elsewhere? If you examine money going into Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Iraq, and other places it seems to be similar. The money goes to contractors/NGO's of the intervening/invading/occupying the country?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/09/thinking-like-political-elite-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/02/life-in-afghanistan-random-stuff-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/03/life-in-iraq-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://www.corbettreport.com/what-is-the-who-questions-for-corbett-066/
https://lbry.tv/@ManuTV:9/German-Velasquez--The-WHO-is-being-privatized?src=open
http://horizonspeakers.com/wp-content/uploads/ebooks/the-richest-man-in-babylon.pdf
https://cdn.mises.org/Politics%20of%20Obedience.pdf
united nations suppliers
https://www.un.org/Depts/ptd/un-secretariat-registered-vendors
https://www.un.org/Depts/ptd/sites/www.un.org.Depts.ptd/files/files/attachment/page/2020/August%202020/List%20of%20UN%20Secretariat%20Registered_04Augl20.xlsx
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=who+corruption
German Velasquez - The WHO is being privatized!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8IBzYrt_Hs
Has the World Health Organisation Opened Itself Up to Corruption
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWvVPtDY1Og
How China Corrupted the World Health Organization's Response to COVID-19
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c07MnRmJPcI
Tedros - the new Director General of the World Health Organization
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFrhBuOEL4
'Monumental incompetence' displayed by World Health Organisation leadership
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cmWxH1S5A8
The World Health Organisation 'is a joke'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LqWX8D_Tns
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=united+nations+corruption
Corruption inside the UN - the Strategic Implications
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxig0L1kW8g
Whistleblower James Wasserstrom slams UN over its failure to fight corruption
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIlx5eCqgDE
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=big+pharma
How Big Pharma secures drug monopolies _ Tahir Amin _ Big Think
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7YZ3Hh4Sa8
How drug companies make you buy more medicine than you need
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVTnwSAFNsQ
Why the drug industry has to change _ VPRO Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZXrE2WMr5M
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative#Ecological_issues
trade dispute losses by country
https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/dispu_status_e.htm
https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/gt47ds_e.htm
- I don't really believe in GDP as a genuine mechanism for pure measuring poverty for all sorts of different reasons. What I didn't realise is that most of the benefits of globalisation are accruing to a relatively small number of countries? If you take out China that means that according to the World Bank the rest of the world the was only about to pull out ~210 million out of poverty between 1990-2015? If you watch things across the board the numbers get ugly quickly? Drastic population increase without commensurate increase in food production, mortality is sort of plateuing, flattening economic growth, etc...
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/10/is-world-in-environmental-trouble.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/06/is-capitalism-collapsing-random.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/07/are-we-now-ussr-brexit-and-more.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/11/a-sea-of-fakery-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://tradingeconomics.com/world/population-total-wb-data.html
https://tradingeconomics.com/world/people-using-basic-drinking-water-services-percent-of-population-wb-data.html
https://tradingeconomics.com/world/survival-to-age-65-female-percent-of-cohort-wb-data.html
https://tradingeconomics.com/world/survival-to-age-65-male-percent-of-cohort-wb-data.html
poverty alleviation global without china
https://ourworldindata.org/the-global-decline-of-extreme-poverty-was-it-only-china
Speaking of leading champions and record holders, China is the world leader and champion in poverty reduction. This is because, as per the World Bank, more than 730 million Chinese have lifted themselves out of poverty from 1990 to 2015, something that took most industrialized nations 100–150 years to accomplish; this shows that China's policies in this area are effective. In 2016, the World Bank report affirmed that China state-sponsored programs were raising poor people's earnings, implementation of early childhood development, provision of quality education and healthcare, cash transfers to poor families, construction of rural infrastructure and giving of subsidy to rebuild homes were effective in reducing poverty.
All these programs are playing a vital role in reducing poverty in China. As a result, in the past four decades, official figures show that China's poverty relief attainment have contributed over 70 percent to worldwide poverty reduction work. At a key political meeting recently, President Xi Jinping emphatically reiterated the national target to eradicate poverty by 2020. According to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the number of poor people in China reportedly stood at 16.6 million by the end of 2018 from almost 100 million in late 2012. The NBS added that in 2018, 13.86 million people in China managed to raise their incomes over the poverty line. This number is larger than the entire population of Rwanda.
China, the global champion of poverty reduction
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201911/15/WS5dce6bc4a310cf3e35577b6e.html
https://isdp.eu/publication/chinas-anti-poverty-efforts-problems-and-progress/

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- For me, one of the most frustrating faults in the food chain is the amount we lose in household waste. Of all the food thrown away, 70% could have been eaten and around 40% of all food goes to waste somewhere along the chain. It's no good refining the process of getting food to our plates if we throw so much of it away in the end. To be more sustainable, we need to make the most of everything we produce – especially while one in nine people in the world go hungry. (Read more about how to avoid throwing good food away.)
https://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/follow-the-food/how-covid-19-has-reshaped-the-food-chain.html
- The key advantage of Russian weapons is to be once again found in their superior reliability.
"We're more reliable than the competition. Experience demonstrates that, the harsher the testing conditions and climate of the client country, the bigger chance we stand of remaining the only ones in the weapons-supply tender," Onokoy claimed.
According to the spokesman, the Kalashnikov Concern's objective in designing the AK-19 was to "clean out the nuances" and get the model to stand up to its German and Belgian rivals in terms of ergonomics.
"Meanwhile, our AK is lighter and cheaper, while accuracy and ergonomics do not fall behind the competition."
https://www.rbth.com/science-and-tech/332616-ak-19-russia-rifle-nato
- The Department of Home Affairs was established in 2017. It has oversight of the AFP, ABF, Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) and Austrac.
There are more intelligence agencies including the Office of National Intelligence (ONI), Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS), Defence Intelligence Organisation (DIO), Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) and Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organisation (AGO).
Then there is the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC), National Intelligence Community (NIC), National Security Committee (NSC), National Intelligence Coordination Committee (NICC), National Intelligence Collection Management Committee (NICMC), The National Intelligence Open Source Committee (NIOSC) and Australia-New Zealand Counter-Terrorism Committee (ANZCTC).
Yes, it is a cat's breakfast and may well lead to the sort of problems that caused a breakdown in intelligence exchange in the U.S. prior to 9/11. The proliferation of agencies highlights the growth of the terrorism industry, reflected in the empire-building noted above. The industry has now shifted its focus to China, which offers prospects for growth in unearthing evil intent.
Peter Dutton, Minister for Home Affairs, has a powerful base for exercising and seeking to exercise control over his fellow Australians. Left to his own devices he would tap our phones and monitor our devices. Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) Sally McManus, believes he already does. I now have the same attitude to my phone in Australia as I did in South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.
Parliamentary scrutiny of this basket of cats is almost non-existent, due to a lack of will and an attitude that it would be disloyal to dig up dirt. The official mindset – accepted by mainstream media – is that these are national institutions undertaking vitally important work on behalf of a nation under threat.
Patriotism is defined by the ruling LNP and supported by the Labor Party. China has now been identified as the enemy. It is best to go along with that narrative lest your home is raided, travel restricted and phone tapped.
The Anzac myth is deployed in these times as an appeal to a higher order of nationalism requiring the sacrifice of some liberties and compliance with unpopular directives. Its greatest appeal is on the right of the political spectrum. It has reached its use-by date, but nothing else is on offer.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/australias-trend-toward-dutton-style-government-power,14252
- On Thursday the United States revealed it had previously seized a major shipment of Iranian missiles bound for Yemen, and separately that it seized and later sold 1.1 million barrels of Iranian fuel bound for Venezuela.
Reports describe the seizer was accomplished by two US warships in regional waters that apprehended a total of 171 guided anti-tank missiles, eight surface-to-air missiles, and associated equipment, according to a statement by Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Demers.
"These actions represent the government's largest-ever forfeitures actions for fuel and weapons shipments from Iran," the Justice Department said.
Also on Thursday the Treasury Department and State Department slapped sanctions on eleven different entities connected to the Iranian fuel shipments and sales, and sanctions-busting operations.
The DOJ identified that it as top Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) operatives behind the clandestine shipments of fuel and weapons.
The 1.1 barrels of fuel had been previously reported as seized by US authorities in August. Initially diverted to Houston, some of it was offloaded in New York. The US has now confirmed it sold the petroleum from four tankers at a price of over $40 million.
"We estimate that in excess of $40 million will be recouped by the United States related to the sale of petroleum from those four vessels," acting US attorney for the District of Columbia Michael Sherwin the told reporters.
According to AFP, Sherwin indicated much of the proceeds from the sale would go to a US fund for victims of "state-sponsored terrorism". The report details:
US courts have ordered Iran's clerical regime to pay damages over attacks, most recently in July when a judge told Tehran to pay $879.1 million over a 1996 bombing in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 US airmen.
Iran denies responsibility and states it has no intention of paying, saying the United States should instead compensate for past episodes including its support of Saddam Hussein in the Iran-Iraq War.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-seizes-largest-ever-haul-iranian-missiles-oil-enough-large-military-force
- "Our cultural knowledge, 60,000 years of it, is designed to look after the land," Mr Carriage said.
"It's reading Mother Nature, understanding the environment, understanding the animals that live in that area, understanding all aspects of the area that you're burning.
"We've got no problems in sharing our culture, we want people to understand that."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-27/rebirth-of-cultural-burning-in-hardest-hit-bushfire-region/12706810
- Is South Africa turning a corner in its battle against corruption?
Two powerful images emerged this week, offering starkly contradictory perspectives on the country's long and tortuous struggle against high-level graft and its attempts to repair a broken judicial system.
The first picture was of a bright red Ferrari (an FF F151, if you must know) being confiscated by officials from South Africa's Asset Forfeiture Unit, along with a Bentley convertible, two staggeringly opulent villas and others items worth a total of 300m rand ($18.2m; £14m).
Ever since former President Jacob Zuma was pushed out of office, in disgrace, two years ago, and his successor promised to wage war against the "state capture" - the grand corruption that flourished so spectacularly during the Zuma era, the public has been waiting, with growing impatience, to see prominent figures arrested and to see a culture of high-level impunity brought to an abrupt end.
Last Monday's car and villa seizures were accompanied by seven arrests, of businessmen and provincial government officials and bureaucrats, charged with multiple counts of wrongdoing in relation to a huge asbestos-removal contract - counts that all boil down to the fundamental, and seemingly ubiquitous, crime of insider trading on state procurement deals.
In other words, of businessmen and state officials conspiring to steal money from tax payers by inflating, manipulating, or otherwise corrupting government contracts.
Ferraris and frustration: Two faces of South Africa's corruption battle
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-54480257
- The current potential satellite colliders pose no risk to people down here on Earth, but could pose a major threat to operational satellites and assorted spacecraft in orbit.
While collisions have accounted for less than one percent of fragmentation events in orbit in the last ten years, the legitimate concern is that, once enough space junk becomes stuck in orbit, it's only a matter of time before a runaway cascade effect occurs, creating a vast debris cloud which could render large swathes of low-Earth orbit useless to humankind.
This situation is known as Kessler Syndrome, named after former NASA astrophysicist Donald Kessler in 1978.
"My feeling about this is probably it's not going to happen, just to be optimistic. But we'll have to wait," Gorman said. "Let's keep our fingers crossed."
https://www.rt.com/news/503562-russian-military-satellite-crash-risk/
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