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[Not the Onion] Bari Weiss’s new CBS hires include ‘germ theory denialist’ doctor
(www.theguardian.com)
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All the people in charge of heatlhcare are invested in unregulated supplements. The entire Trump dismantling of health (and the oppositions reluctance to undo it) can all be traced to the supplement and sports nutrition boom. Alex Jones walked with his lead-based brain supplements so Rogan and the others could run.
They can't have science based medicine because that limits the range of correct answers and therefore useful products. The biotech market gets saturated and returns fall dramatically. They have to create asymmetry in the market in order to have an edge in investments. If you open up the range of correct answers then you can develop products that aren't drugs. You can mix some turmeric and ginseng in your garage and sell it as a cure. That lower barrier to entry creates the asymmetry because the people stuck building multi-million dollar labs to make actual cures are now left behind. The supplement market explodes and grows rapidly, as we've seen since covid.
Speaking of covid, what a windfall for these people. Liberals failed to act, this created mistrust and anger, the cranks take advantage of that anger and get people to latch on to anti-establishment medicine. Nobody trusts their doctor. Instead of a doctor you just pay $400 a month to get any prescription you want. Supplements are shilled on every form of internet media as a cheaper and more natural alternative to prescriptions. Nobody has healthcare anyways so why not buy lion's mane at a 500% markup? What a mess.
Literally my job. I work in sales at the largest supplement company in the US and it is so fucking bleak man. Worst part is it's the "best" job I've ever had. We are so fucked.