[Infowarrior] - OT: Book recommendation

[Richard Forno]

(Disclosure: I have no association with the book's author)

"Our Daily Meds" (Melody Petersen) is a remarkable, well-researched  
and presented depiction of how the American pharmaceutical industry  
operates and the resulting social dangers arising from an industry  
able to conjure whatever medical reality is required to reach its  
annual profit targets, regardless of the adverse, and sometimes-fatal  
consequences to its customers.

By employing successful time-tested techniques of knowledge  
manipulation used both by marketing and military organizations alike,  
and backed by legions of complicit physicians thought to be objective  
purveyors of medical advice and analysis, the public and other medical  
officials are kept just ignorant enough to desire the latest curative  
for the latest 'risk' to their health as determined by the drug  
companies. Thus, they pay for the privilege of becoming the  
pharmaceutical industry's latest batch of revenue-generating test  
subjects -- even at the expense of risking their own lives in pursuit  
of a cure perpetuated by a lie wrapped in the promise of hope.

While pharmeceutical companies have provided medical cures to a large  
number of the global population (including this reviewer) this book  
should serve as a loud and clear wakeup-call to anyone taking, or  
considering, taking prescription medications to think twice and do  
their own research before simply popping the latest pill for the  
latest 'condition.'

- Rick
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