domingo, 27 de noviembre de 2011

GLOBAL ISSUES

Pharmaceutical corporations are nowadays one of the most profitable and influential industries in the world. It so happens that most of the scientists work for non-independent institutions instead of independents as universities or non-profit-making foundations. By this I mean that their interests are the interest of any corporation: to find profitable products. So, what happen with the scientists who look for the truth and the knowledge?

Investigations are not followed by scientists who really research the health problems but by economic interests. These corporations have also become the supplying companies of information and formation for their own professionals. Consequences can be devastating for our population. They launch their own campaigns for the need of new medicines to solve health problems that they create themselves. That is the case of for example the vaccination campaigns. They have created this ¨fear¨ in our society by which people think that epidemics have disappeared due to vaccination. And this ¨fear¨ comes, as every fear, from the ignorance.

If we have a look at the evolution of every epidemic or contagious illness, before that the vaccination became widespread, the mortality rate had drastically reduced thanks to the improvement in the society living conditions. However, vaccination campaigns are implemented without reliable information of secondary effects and risks. And the reason is that the vaccines industry needs to produce new products and create new customers by creating new vaccines. And how do they find new customers? By selling to the governments their campaigns and their products. What governments? One of their main objectives are third world countries when what they really need is economic help to improve their living conditions...

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