This article really shocked me - and when it comes to drug companies, profits and marketing, I thought I was armor-plated against shock. Read a bit of this just to get the list of children's medications that have been recalled - many of them over the counter medicines such as Tylenol that I'm betting most parents have in the medicine cabinet "just in case." ( check the expiration dates and make sure what you have hasn't been effected by a recall!)
The scariest part of the trend? The push for vaccines. Now vaccines sound like a good thing, right? I immediately think of polio and how the polio vaccine revolutionized the world. My dad grew up in the Bronx during the age of polio epidemics. He used to tell stories how how scary it was when they would announce the local swimming pool closed because of polio outbreaks. He said his parents lived in fear that my uncle Arthur or my dad would get polio. So vaccines against such diseases....good.
But look at the list of vaccines they're working on. Stress? C'mon, wouldn't some chocolate, a vacation or a bubble bath be safer? And how about obesity - I can think of about a billion ways to lose weight without a jab.
The point Dr. Mercola tries to make in this article is a good one, and one worth thinking about. Recent legislation holds vaccine markers harmless or limits damages due to vaccinations. So - if you're a drug company faced with extensive litigation due to horrendous side effects and deaths from medications you rushed to the market to make a profit - what are you going to focus your R & D on? Take a guess?
Something that you can rush to market without too many legal consequences.
Far fetched? I don't know. I just like Dr. Mercola's unabashed and really bold look at the topic.
This article really shocked me - and when it comes to drug companies, profits and marketing, I thought I was armor-plated against shock. Read a bit of this just to get the list of children's medications that have been recalled - many of them over the counter medicines such as Tylenol that I'm betting most parents have in the medicine cabinet "just in case." ( check the expiration dates and make sure what you have hasn't been effected by a recall!)
The scariest part of the trend? The push for vaccines. Now vaccines sound like a good thing, right? I immediately think of polio and how the polio vaccine revolutionized the world. My dad grew up in the Bronx during the age of polio epidemics. He used to tell stories how how scary it was when they would announce the local swimming pool closed because of polio outbreaks. He said his parents lived in fear that my uncle Arthur or my dad would get polio. So vaccines against such diseases....good.
But look at the list of vaccines they're working on. Stress? C'mon, wouldn't some chocolate, a vacation or a bubble bath be safer? And how about obesity - I can think of about a billion ways to lose weight without a jab.
The point Dr. Mercola tries to make in this article is a good one, and one worth thinking about. Recent legislation holds vaccine markers harmless or limits damages due to vaccinations. So - if you're a drug company faced with extensive litigation due to horrendous side effects and deaths from medications you rushed to the market to make a profit - what are you going to focus your R & D on? Take a guess?
Something that you can rush to market without too many legal consequences.
Far fetched? I don't know. I just like Dr. Mercola's unabashed and really bold look at the topic.
Read and decide for yourself!