I gave these links about the pharmaceutical industry in another thread:
Big Bucks, Big Pharma - summary of the series that follows:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81DmeC_EXKI
Big Bucks Big Pharma - full series:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh99CN5tLrc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdh9_Uz6cIs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_o2YtAUA4o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dix4Q44LFaA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWrpWjP8rFI
Boy, I'm beginning to get hooked on Youtube.
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So we now have ADD/ADHD, bi-polar, social anxiety disease, gastric reflux disease, PMDD, restless leg, etc.
I was sent this site from Newstarget.com, an enjoyable way to create our own disease:
https://www.newstarget.com/disease-mongering-engine.asp
If we think deeply about it, we are now made to confuse the symptom as the disease, just to push drugs. Is fever a disease? Is high cholesterol a disease? Is high CRP a disease? Is hypertension a disease? Is pain a disease? To all these, I would say, "No." But all these account for a big chunk of Big Pharma's income.
Gerry