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176 drugs that were considered safe and effective but now are off the market because they found that they were quite dangerous Accutane. They took it off the market because they found that it creates liver damage after 27 years.
Cylert was on the market for 30 years. That was for ADHD or ADD.
And then we have DES, diethylstilbesterol. This was used as a very powerful estrogen that was supposed to prevent miscarriages until they found it caused miscarriages 31 years later.
And then you had Thalidomide, and I don't know how that got passed, that credit all sorts of problems with babies coming out with flippers for arms and all sorts of issues.
Hey, these things are backed by science. So the main question is who is funding the study, which many times gives grants to universities. And then you have industry which then also funds the universities. And then you have a few non-profits to do research, right?
Here and there, we allow industry to pay certain individuals who sit on boards and committees that regulate a lot of the guidelines in our Healthcare. And, of course, not to mention the medical journals, which depend on industry for money for their advertising.
But I think the worst of the worst is that industry is allowed to cherry-pick their data and not have to publish the studies that don't align with what they want.
Unfortunately, what we're missing in science is a thing called ethics.
