It's Not A New Madness

The madness in our modern society is that we allow our leaders to coddle, pamper and pay Big Pharma to foist on us low-quality and dangerous drugs.

Jan 01, 2024

I wondered who had originated this saying:

“Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity… but don’t rule out malice.” ~Albert Einstein

I found a source1 that satisfied me. As with any pithy remark, or any good idea, it has many inventors. But I also wondered if anyone had ever said this:

“Never ascribe to malice or stupidity what can be better explained by reckless greed.”

I found a study that explored the concept of “greed” being a bad thing, condemned by major religions, and generally considered a negative trait.2

I believe most of us consider greed, as a motivation in individuals, to be a bad thing. Can many of us can honestly say they haven’t responded to the tug of greediness, or at least had to fight to resist it? When you find a wallet stuffed with cash, for example, you would like to have that cash, wouldn’t you? But you strive to return it because something inside says, “I want to be able to look at myself in the mirror.”

But In Corporate Boardrooms Maybe Such Views Are Passé

Take for example, Big Pharma, as we know it from many past examples. Look at Merck’s Vioxx (rofecoxib). “Merck withdrew the drug after disclosures that it withheld information about rofecoxib's risks from doctors and patients for over five years, allegedly resulting in between 88,000 and 140,000 cases of serious heart disease.” 3,4

And never forget Thalidomide, DES, LSD (yes, that LSD was first released as a prescription drug), Zantac, and almost 180 others listed as recalled in Wikipedia.5 Certainly, we should be thankful that some bad drugs are recalled. But we should also be suspicious of drugs shown by overwhelming anecdotal evidence to be top candidates for recall, but which are still being prescribed. (Some are even mandated and pushed by our government.)

High Profit + Acceptable or Unprovable Numbers of Deaths = No Recall

That seems to be the recipe for keeping a drug on the market. It hearkens back to the above views on greed, and how it can affect boardroom decisions. In view of the recent revelations about SSRIs and other psychoactive drugs, plus the overwhelming anecdotal evidence against Covid “vaccines,” I think I can safely say that most people agree that Big Pharma has motivations far removed from altruism. In other words, they don’t care as long as they’re getting rich.

In a book I’m currently reading, Collective Illusions, author Todd Rose points out that we often think our views differ from the mainstream, when they usually do not. I may be wrong, but in the case of Big Pharma and their balance between caring about the damage their drugs do, and valuing their profits despite actual damage the drugs do, I would bet the scale of opinion weighs heavier toward the latter.

Of course, what the Pharmas claim is that their research shows their drug to be effective and safe when used as directed. We’ve heard that so many times, it’s lost its meaning. But what about the fact that the documents released by Pfizer where their own research show page after page after page of adverse reactions, many extremely serious? Also the fact that they never disclosed those until forced to do so? Pfizer is one of the main suspects in this situation, but they are not alone. Moderna fooled the FDA about where their Covid drug goes in our bodies (biodistribution): they were found to have not submitted to the FDA valid research results for their Covid “vaccine,” (Spikevax®), but instead substituted results of a completely different drug. Based partly on that deceit, Moderna was granted license for Spikevax® to “prevent” Covid infection.6 Doesn’t get much worse than that, IMHO.

How about SSRIs?

In a recent article on Substack by A Midwestern Doctor (here), the evils of prescription antidepressant SSRI drugs (SSRI - Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor) were detailed. Matt Walsh, also (here) has recently spoken about them on Rumble. Tucker Carlson and others have recently spoken out. Most of these, I think, have resulted from recent announcements and studies proving the neurotransmitter serotonin actually has nothing at all to do with depression!7 (Refer back to the “safe and effective” comment in the paragraph above.)

Back in 2015, In a Novel …

… Yours truly published a novel that was acclaimed by Dr. David Healy, positively reviewed and linked by his staff on his website RxISK.org, and is still available on Amazon. Its title is This Present Madness,8 published November, 2015, available as ebook or paperback. It took two years of research and writing, and 52 other books read. It deals with a fictional mass shooting by a young man taking an SSRI drug, the investigation into the shooting of one of the victims by his mother, a reporter, and … I won’t spoil it in case you want to read it. I encourage you to do so, as it is firmly referenced and every fact stated in it is true. Plus, it’s a pretty good, and timeless, story, if I do say so myself.

I will apologize for the obvious pushing of my own work, but I have actually mentioned it for a less obvious reason. That reason, and the point of this article, is this: profit, in large enough numbers, will keep the boardroom happy, no matter the human cost. The knowledge of the proven extreme dangers of SSRIs to a percentage of users has been well known for many years. However, because they are so profitable, and so popular (with one in ten American adults using them) they are not even questioned by the authorities, and never ever mentioned by the sycophantic media. They are prescribed for depression, yet for a percentage users, they often make it worse, to the point of violence. (Not just suicides and mass shootings, but also miscellaneous violent acts such as stabbings, wife beatings, child abuse, and other violent acts.) Yet, we don’t give this problem much thought unless there’s a mass shooting, or unless it affects us in a personal way.

And, the more recent advent of revolutionary “vaccines” that have cheated their way through our possibly corrupt, provably incompetent regulatory process? There’s plenty to read about that aspect.

Refer Back to “Greed” in the Boardroom

Does this shameful concept explain this debacle? To me, it does.

Et Ex Animo

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