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The purpose of science is to try and figure out the how’s of things.. how things work.. science wants fact and repeatability. Drug Companies want simple repeatability. They want a single patentable compound that will work in a predictable way through a known mechanism. The key word here is patentable. If it can be patented then money can be made off of it.. lots of money…. just look at what that last bottle of prescription medicine cost. If it can’t be patented or the patent runs out then money can be made, but in a competitive market with much lower profit margins….look at what the last bottle of Tylenol cost.

Drug Companies are the single most profitable industry in America, the top. Out of all the Automotive Industries, Wally-Worlds that get stuff cheap from China, hmmm, what else do we make now.. oh yea… weapons.. more profitable then the arms industry (our biggest export). They claim that the prices they charge are because of R&D, and advertising costs. I look at their profit margin and claim bullshit.

This is the way modern medicine currently works: Drugs are developed in a variety of ways-> they are tested heavily and if a winner is found they are marketed heavily toward doctors. Most doctors are not willing or do not have the time to read all the research journals so they get a one-way view of most drugs. Then they effectively act as salesmen. You get the prescription which you pay $35 for if you are lucky. When you get the bill for the 10 minute sales pitch it turns out you owe another $135. The prescription you take has a side effect that you have to take another medicine at $35/month.

I had a doctor tell me that I had to start taking Fosomax because I had been on and off of low dose prednisone. He didn’t order a bone density test. He simply said I needed to take this powerful drug that stops the natural calcium exchange that happens in your bones. I said hold on a sec, demanded a bone density scan, and it revealed that everything was OK. He had never mentioned Fosomax in my 8+ years of seeing him before and Fosomax has just come out a few years earlier. The company was trying to expand and was “finding new markets”.

It is time to: 1. Demand a universal healthcare system. A system where the drug companies are not made the most profitable in the country by fleecing its citizens. 2. Take our health into our own hands - Educate yourself.

The internet is such a great source of information on ways to get yourself healthy and ways to prevent disease in the first place. You must know your sources, but places like Pubmed offer free abstract searches of all the medical and science journals. See my links section and, of course read my blog .