Hi everybody Cheryl Ackison here.

Cheryl Ackison here.

Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl Ackison

Podcast.

Today we're going to lift the veil when it comes to a collusion between media, the pharmaceutical

industry, political officials, and the medical establishment including some of your very own doctors.

We exist largely in an artificial reality brought to you by the makers of the latest pill or injection.

It's a reality where invisible forces work daily to hype fears about certain illnesses and exaggerate the supposed benefits of treatments and

cures.

On the other hand, these forces have financial reasons to minimize or deny spikes in other types of illnesses that they make money treating

so that we don't seriously explore the root causes.

In those cases they argue, oh the surge is just a result of greater awareness and better diagnosis, or maybe

the invention of overactive imaginations.

The hard truth is that every emerging disorder we suffer opens up new opportunities for pharmaceutical companies to earn millions or billions.

Drug companies and their government partners fund the majority of scientific studies with the goal of promoting a product.

Studies that could stand to truly solve our most consequential health problems aren't done if they don't ultimately advance a profitable

pill or injection. The government subsidizes food that's bad for us, allows no neurotoxins, cancer- chemicals and hormone disruptors to be in the food

we feed our children every day and the water we drink, and restricts practices that could make

us healthier. It incentivizes the practice of medicine

in a way that reduces us to a series of target numbers to be achieved through expensive pharmaceuticals

and treatments and punishes doctors who color

outside the lines and practice independent patient care. Why?

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