I’m currently reading a book by Azra Raza called The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last. Raza is a lymphoma expert, and she caught my attention because I heard her complain on a podcast that the drugs we treat lymphoma with today are essentially the same ones she was using in the seventies. Raza is also a harsh critic of the way we do cancer research in America – and with good reason:
You've just illustrated what democracy actually is, which is why the left likes to leave off the most important word for our form of government. That word is Republic.
Exactly right, and part of the prescription drug targeting problem is that we Americans want an easy, quick fix, don't we? I mean, diet and exercise (to prevent type 2 diabetes) is hard work, while taking an Ozempic is kind of easy. (And cheap, if Biden somehow sells his plan to include low cost Ozempic courtesy of the US taxpayers.) You've written about virtue signalers before, and we know that they really don't care if their "solutions" work or not, because they can still tell all their friends, hey, we were just trying to help. Thomas Sowell has many on point YT videos all about these kind of "fixes," that don't fix anything, and showing that it wasn't even actually their goal in the first place. I know Robert Kennedy is very focused on fixing "Big Food," let's hope he can get his changes past the big lobbyist groups that will fight him tooth and nail!
You've just illustrated what democracy actually is, which is why the left likes to leave off the most important word for our form of government. That word is Republic.
Exactly right, and part of the prescription drug targeting problem is that we Americans want an easy, quick fix, don't we? I mean, diet and exercise (to prevent type 2 diabetes) is hard work, while taking an Ozempic is kind of easy. (And cheap, if Biden somehow sells his plan to include low cost Ozempic courtesy of the US taxpayers.) You've written about virtue signalers before, and we know that they really don't care if their "solutions" work or not, because they can still tell all their friends, hey, we were just trying to help. Thomas Sowell has many on point YT videos all about these kind of "fixes," that don't fix anything, and showing that it wasn't even actually their goal in the first place. I know Robert Kennedy is very focused on fixing "Big Food," let's hope he can get his changes past the big lobbyist groups that will fight him tooth and nail!
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