Study underpinning the "Dutch Protocol", the affirmation-only pathway for trans-identifying children, was funded by pharma company responsible for puberty-blocking drugs

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[–]ClassroomPast6178 12 insightful - 4 fun12 insightful - 3 fun13 insightful - 4 fun -  (5 children)

To be fair, this is standard operating procedure with the pharmaceutical industry. They use every possible dirty trick to market their drugs, including forming “patient support groups” who lobby politicians to support their latest drugs, funding dodgy studies and bought-and-paid-for researchers. The entire clinical research field needs a massive shakeup to eliminate this shit. Thankfully, things are beginning to happen like forcing researchers to register their trials so that they can’t just bury bad results any more by not publishing them.

More needs to be done though.

[–]YJaewedwqewq 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Pharmaceutical corporations don't create solutions to problems, they create problems to market their "solutions". And conveniently enough, those "solutions" also create more problems for them to "solve", what a coincidence!

[–]Beneficial_Pear9705 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

yeah it’s the infinite money cheat like being a shitty programmer.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

As someone who works at a pharma company I'm just going to point out that there are competing interests at big pharma companies. The people working on new drugs are absolutely trying to solve problems. Problem is that marketing and finance departments are going to prioritize profit motive over other factors.

[–]YJaewedwqewq 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Well yeah, the issue here is that the higher-ups in the company are going to side with finance/marketing, and marketing and finance already have more power and sway. If they didn't, things like the insulin argument would be a moot point.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Insulin and people like Martin Shrekle (wtf ever his name was) are the prime examples.

I'm just saying that we do create solutions but in the modern day i would say many of the new drugs are extremely obscure and you never hear of it because only a tiny fraction of the population has the disease which requires the drug. Or it becomes a new version of an anticancer drug and you only take it if you have a specific type of cancer.

This is one of the issues with Lupron the anti puberty drug. It was designed for a condition like precocious puberty or a bleeding uterus. It works for those people but an extremely tiny number of people suffer from these conditions. Somehow they convinced the medical community to prescribe it off label with zero testing beforehand to children.

[–]bife_de_lomo[S] 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I'd put up a shockedpikachu.gif, but I'm not even surprised at this point

[–]handbananasrevenge 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Nothing will change. We saw how the scientific and medical communities shifted goalposts to draw whatever conclusions the ruling class and media wanted drawn regarding covid. This had significant real world consequences for people, but hey, the folks making the decisions didn’t have to worry about not getting their paychecks or living their lives normally, so hey, fuck the average person, right? It was too much power and control to not take advantage of it.