Money is the big corrupter, if someone is paying you to do a study then, if you want to collect on that pay cheque and others in the future then you better make sure the study favours your financier. This applies to the medical field, climate studies, trans ideology, etc… always follow the money.
This is really important. I'm not sure how much I agree with Dr Marik on a lot of things but I recognized what he said about the CoVid issue way back in March 2020. How corrupt so much of the medical system is. The first instance where I remember thinking about this is a study from many years before CoVid which said that chocolate was good for your health. It was sponsored by the Hershey's Chocolate company. Obviously they would conclude that chocolate was good for you.
Dr. Marik is outstanding here. I think it is great that he has turned his attention to SSRIs. My understanding is that the pharmaceutical industry has already pivoted from the entirely unsupported notion that increasing serotonin reduces depression to the exact opposite. That is increasing dopamine and decreasing serotonin reduces depression. I learned about this from the Ray Peat community, including Georgi Dinkov.
On the topic of captured journals, we know Dr. Marik is the most published researcher on emergency / interventional medicine, including using Vitamin C to treat sepsis. I realize he now believes the journals are controlled by the pharmaceutical industry, but there has to be a subset of topics / journals that were somewhat unaffected by pharma. Otherwise, how could Dr. Marik be so highly published? So there was some good there . . . some core element that worked, until Dr. Marik ran into the demonization of ivermectin and other off-patent compounds that show promising antiviral properties. As Peter notes, it is a depressing subject, but there was something working for Dr. Marik for decades. I'm very interested in that. Maybe it's just the issue of necessary reforms. But Dr Marik wasn't just a believer, he was able to get his insights published.
I'm not sure I agree with all of Dr. Marik's conclusions. For example, he said having taken the COVID vaccine came with a higher risk of death and cited a single study done by the Cleveland Clinic. One study seems insufficient in supporting his claim. I don't mean this to be a personal dig at the good doctor, but a physician who touts the conspiracy laden book of a non-doctor (non-scientist, even) rather than something written by an expert in the field, it makes me doubt either their ability to make well-reasoned recommendations or their adherence to ethical standards. Dr. Marik isn't an epidemiologist nor a statistician and his advocacy for ivermectin and hydrochloraquine during the COVID pandemic wasn't the first time he pushed ideas related to the prevention/treatment of infection that were refuted.
Big Pharma has many perverse incentives, but just because someone is openly attacking them doesn't mean their motivations are pure. It might be them working an angle even less altruistic in nature than Purdue Pharmaceuticals.
The opiod epidemic, covid, the trans insanity. Is there no end to big pharma's crimes and the majority's willingness to accept them as saviors instead of the greedy criminals they are?
the medical cartel unleashed a monster when they screwed with Dr Marik. he would have been a great, albeit conventional doctor, for his whole career. now his eyes- and his mouth- are open
Consider Interviewing the Oncologist and Epidemiologic, Vinay Prasad, follow his podcast, and read his exceptional book, Malignant.
Money is the big corrupter, if someone is paying you to do a study then, if you want to collect on that pay cheque and others in the future then you better make sure the study favours your financier. This applies to the medical field, climate studies, trans ideology, etc… always follow the money.
This is really important. I'm not sure how much I agree with Dr Marik on a lot of things but I recognized what he said about the CoVid issue way back in March 2020. How corrupt so much of the medical system is. The first instance where I remember thinking about this is a study from many years before CoVid which said that chocolate was good for your health. It was sponsored by the Hershey's Chocolate company. Obviously they would conclude that chocolate was good for you.
Dr. Marik is outstanding here. I think it is great that he has turned his attention to SSRIs. My understanding is that the pharmaceutical industry has already pivoted from the entirely unsupported notion that increasing serotonin reduces depression to the exact opposite. That is increasing dopamine and decreasing serotonin reduces depression. I learned about this from the Ray Peat community, including Georgi Dinkov.
On the topic of captured journals, we know Dr. Marik is the most published researcher on emergency / interventional medicine, including using Vitamin C to treat sepsis. I realize he now believes the journals are controlled by the pharmaceutical industry, but there has to be a subset of topics / journals that were somewhat unaffected by pharma. Otherwise, how could Dr. Marik be so highly published? So there was some good there . . . some core element that worked, until Dr. Marik ran into the demonization of ivermectin and other off-patent compounds that show promising antiviral properties. As Peter notes, it is a depressing subject, but there was something working for Dr. Marik for decades. I'm very interested in that. Maybe it's just the issue of necessary reforms. But Dr Marik wasn't just a believer, he was able to get his insights published.
I'm not sure I agree with all of Dr. Marik's conclusions. For example, he said having taken the COVID vaccine came with a higher risk of death and cited a single study done by the Cleveland Clinic. One study seems insufficient in supporting his claim. I don't mean this to be a personal dig at the good doctor, but a physician who touts the conspiracy laden book of a non-doctor (non-scientist, even) rather than something written by an expert in the field, it makes me doubt either their ability to make well-reasoned recommendations or their adherence to ethical standards. Dr. Marik isn't an epidemiologist nor a statistician and his advocacy for ivermectin and hydrochloraquine during the COVID pandemic wasn't the first time he pushed ideas related to the prevention/treatment of infection that were refuted.
Big Pharma has many perverse incentives, but just because someone is openly attacking them doesn't mean their motivations are pure. It might be them working an angle even less altruistic in nature than Purdue Pharmaceuticals.
The opiod epidemic, covid, the trans insanity. Is there no end to big pharma's crimes and the majority's willingness to accept them as saviors instead of the greedy criminals they are?
What does Big Pharma know about the youth cancer epidemic that we don’t?
Daniel Horowitz
March 27, 2024
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/what-does-big-pharma-know-about-the-youth-cancer-epidemic-that-we-dont
have you interviewed RFKjr?
the medical cartel unleashed a monster when they screwed with Dr Marik. he would have been a great, albeit conventional doctor, for his whole career. now his eyes- and his mouth- are open