due to pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey who withstood pressure from the Richardson-Merrell Pharmaceuticals Co. She subsequently was given a distinguished service award by President John F. Kennedy.

Distinguished service award for not allowing a pharma company to have their way. How many of those have been awarded for the same thing since?

and the more you look the farther back it goes...the similarities between today and Spanish Flu era are eerie

I recently injured my wrist while turning the water back on at my house after some minor plumbing work needed while moving my kitchen island (I don't have the "tuning fork" tool for turning those valves on and off--I installed a cut-off valve under my house while I had the water off so I won't have to mess with the city valve anymore). Anyway, I injured my wrist and it wouldn't heal after a couple weeks, so I went to a clinic to see if a doctor could fix me up. All I got was to see some beaner nurse practitioner who wanted to prescribe me pain killers (not a cure) and the kicker was, the pain killers would destroy my stomach flora so I'd also have to be prescribed an antacid.

I explained that I already had some prescription antacids from the year before when I had been getting heartburn due to a previously unknown peanut allergy (I've since cut peanuts out of my diet and the heartburn went away). Anyway, get this, the NP says "you need to throw those away--they've been taken off the market due to the fact that they've been shown to cause stomach cancer."

Doctors and pharmaceutical companies don't know what the fuck they are doing. They are producing and prescribing these drugs and experimenting with them on the public because the cost of lawsuits from wrongful death claims are less than the profits made from just getting them out.

I ended up just doing my own research and getting a script for peptides from an "anti-aging" doctor, which I injected into my wrist myself at home. My wrist healed up great.

I have known a couple of flipper's in my life. Not being rude in the terminology either. Flipper babies was a well known term when I was younger. Tough life indeed, although the ones I knew were super positive and had a great outlook.

There was a kid in my junior high school who had those thaliomide arms. He had been fitted for the old-style metal hooks. Got around with them pretty well but he really wasn't "right in the head". He always talked about how "you guys are lucky you got a hand to jerk off". Freaky character.