ilovethesea said:Such_Saturation said:Do you think Blake College got drugs planted inside it and shut down because it was capitalistic?
It's not about left vs. right. That's just an illusion - a distraction.
I think Ray Peat is still considered a very dangerous man. (For all the right reasons imo.)
"More than 50 years ago, I realized that the US culture had become effectively totalitarian, with decorations, and even the decorations were being fixed by the specialists (the Congress for Cultural Freedom, for example). I went through a series of graduate studies and projects looking for places where reality could influence the culture, rather than being obliterated by it. " Ray Peat
"I think they do it in elegant offices in the drug companies, for example the 1941 estrogen conspiracy described by Carla Rothwell in her history of hormone replacement. Just before the approval of the synthetic form of vitamin A, there was a wave of articles across the country, including the national magazines, about the great danger of natural vitamin A overdoses; the synthetics were promoted as the safe alternative. I asked some of the reporters where they got the information, and one gave me the name of a university professor. When I phoned and wrote her for some details about it, she didn’t answer; her secretary said she wasn’t available. The coincidence of the rash of news stories, and the phoniness of the reported facts, couldn’t reasonably be explained as anything but a drug marketing campaign. Usually it’s done in the medical journals first, but in that campaign they apparently worked directly through professors and the mass media. There are occasional simply stupid medical accidents, but the everyday medical horrors are obviously done with massive organization and deliberation. They calculate the billions in profits against the probable cost in legal settlements, and time the drug withdrawal accordingly, when the costs are expected to cancel profits. But when it’s done at the top, with capital, it isn’t conspiracy." Ray Peat
^ And obviously this isn't just going on in pharmaceutical industry... Ray knows that.
Isn't The Congress of Cultural Freedom an anti-communist advocacy group ? Even the New York times has written about its political undertones and we all know how incompetent the new york times is at reporting news.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.h ... 838D679EDE
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract. ... 5F428685F9
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_f ... ite_note-7