Why do so many people think mainstream medicine or “big pharma” is automatically untrustworthy because of how much money it makes when the people selling Homeopathic Natural Herbs and shit aren’t subjected to any laws or regulations whatsoever and make far quicker, far easier money they get to keep much more of for themselves?
They aren’t required to spend anything on personnel, equipment or facilities to ever test their product or prove it does anything as long as their label says somewhere that it’s homeopathic.
Anyone with zero experience or qualifications can pay to have some dirt out of their backyard bottled and put any price on it and claim it “may” be good for your health somehow and yet the industry that involves thousands of actual scientists is the one that supposedly must be making fake poison for profit.
Uh note that just because I’m pointing out that the alternative is a deadly money making scheme doesn’t mean I’m defending the evil practices of big corporations.
It’s just really silly to put trust into something so, so clearly MORE sinister.
The Crystal Healer snake oiler peddlers are nothing but a poor independent rebranding of the same people who make billions inflating the prices of epipens, except it’s even less possible for them to ever suffer repercussions for it since a quick “*not fda approved” on your packaging covers you forever.
I should also say that this particular moment of outrage on my behalf was sparked by the wave of parents making their autistic children drink bleach on the advice of the same kinds of people who think autism was manufactured by flu shots.
also, like, the actually evil things big pharma does are not nearly the same things that “natural herbalist healers” or whatever the fuck accuse big pharma of doing
like, actually evil things: charging absurdly high markups for lifesaving medication a la martin shkreli, changing formulas every so often so the patent stays “fresh” and there’s no generic, unethical testing practices in foreign countries, making money off of healthcare at all
things that have never happened ever: vaccines causing autism, cancer being cured through happy thoughts and eating kale, vitamins making you immortal, colloidal silver doing a damn thing other than turning your skin blue
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