What about the regulators? The problem is the regulators have been captured. Most of the regulators around the world and in developed nations get most of their funding from pharma. Most doctors, even senior doctors I’ve spoken to, didn’t know this. The FDA gets 65% of its funding from pharma. The MHRA in the UK gets 86% of its funding from pharma. Donald Light in the BMJ, in an investigation that exposed all these conflicts of interest in terms of funding, said, “It’s the opposite of having a trustworthy organization independently and rigorously assessing medicines. They’re not rigorous,
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