CHINA VIRUS - I'm STILL PISSED OFF

Not saying I trust big pharma, but I read articles like these with some skepticism. Acetaminophen has been in widespread use for a very long time and I don’t feel like I see more and more short buses driving around.

If anything, I feel like any increase in diagnoses is societal because people don’t want to raise their kids.
 
Mike Pierson said:
Interesting that as time goes on we learn more and more about how big pharma has fucking us over. We’re all a bunch of guinea pigs.
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I think the practice of modern medicine has done wonders for all of us, but modern medicines are an issue. Besides over-prescribing everything, I think synthetic anything is bad, just like eating junky processed shit.

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Petroleum-derived synthetics began to replace plant-based drugs starting in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with the transition accelerating throughout the 20th century
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Key developments and timelines
  • Late 1800s: The shift began with the rise of the organic chemical industry. Byproducts of coal, and later oil, were used to create aromatic compounds for artificial dyes and, increasingly, pharmaceuticals. This period saw the first syntheses of drugs based on chemical precursors rather than direct extraction from plants.
  • 1897: Aspirin synthesis: A pivotal moment was Bayer's synthesis of acetylsalicylic acid (Aspirin). Though salicylic acid was originally isolated from plants, Bayer's process soon moved to chemical synthesis using phenol derived from fossil resources. This marked a significant turning point, demonstrating the potential for mass-producing a well-known drug at a lower cost and higher consistency than extraction methods.
  • Early 1900s: As industrialization advanced, modern pharmaceuticals were increasingly manufactured from fossil resources. The combination of cheap, readily available hydrocarbon feedstocks and rapid developments in synthetic organic chemistry drove a sharp increase in the number of new synthetic drugs.
  • Post-WWII: The development of other synthetic painkillers, like acetaminophen (1956) and ibuprofen (1962), further reduced the market dominance of early plant-derived drugs.
  • 1980s and 1990s: Research into natural products for new drug leads declined in favor of synthetic compound libraries and high-throughput screening (HTS).
The modern landscape
While synthetics and petroleum-derived drugs have become dominant, plant-based medicine has not completely disappeared. Many modern pharmaceuticals are still semisynthetic, meaning they are chemically modified versions of natural products, or are inspired by natural compounds.
However, the pharmaceutical industry largely shifted away from plant-derived natural products as a primary source for drug candidates due to the intrinsic difficulties of natural product-based drug discovery
 
Sharkey said:
Not saying I trust big pharma, but I read articles like these with some skepticism. Acetaminophen has been in widespread use for a very long time and I don’t feel like I see more and more short buses driving around.

If anything, I feel like any increase in diagnoses is societal because people don’t want to raise their kids.
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I read all of these articles with a jaundiced eye, but I can't say that I trust anything from pharma's side either. They've been proved wrong so many times now and have covered up so much shit over the years that you don't know what to believe. The benefit of trust is gone.
 
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