[afro-nets] Corporate influences on epidemiology (2)

["Craig Audiss" <cybrcollectinc@yahoo.com>]

Hello All,

I guess I don't know what makes epidemiology so special.  All fields are influenced in one way or another.  Many times the Corporation with the deepest pockets wins the fight.  

The chemical companies fought and funded flawed studies to outlaw DDT, and millions have died of Malaria since.  Only recently has this come to light.  The reason for this was that DDT was too cheap to manufacture and not enough money made.

The same thing is happening with global warming, billions of dollars are going to be made by the big shots like Al Gore selling so called "carbon offsets".  Everything is flawed in one way or another to reflect their views or positions.  Large corporations and leaders are always going to go where "the money is" ,ALWAYS.  The little guy will always get shafted and end up paying the bill for the privilege.  Like it or not they have the treasure and will use it for themselves ALWAYS, everybody else be damned!

What can we do about it?  I don't know, I really don't, how can these people be shamed into doing the right thing?  Transparency is always good, but how do you implement it when good people are not the ones in charge?  We beg for the scraps from their banquet table for funding to help, and it gets handed to politicians or people who carry on the same practices that have failed for decade after decade.  It is truly outrageous that the people that are handed "billions" of dollars are not held to account for their practices and failure.

I guess I have ranted for long enough, gotta go.

Cheers,

Craig 

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Craig Audiss 
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