Episode 16: Selling Fear and Sickness - (Part 1)

What They AREN’T Telling You

Melissa Floyd

Society & Culture

3.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

"Many of us think we know about the flu vaccine. We believe it prevents the flu, or at the very least, reduces complications from the flu, thus reducing deaths. The flu story we THINK we know is not supported by medical evidence. The history of the flu vaccine is a cautionary tale about the crony capitalist rush for a Covid-19 vaccine." 🗣 It's that time of year again. Today I give you some flu shot facts! I also break down a great article (How the Government Sells Fear and Sickness: The Case of the Flu) from Barry Brownstein, professor of economics at the University of Baltimore. He discusses the flu vaccine campaign, how it's aggressively marketed, and how it's based on very weak, even non-existent, science. Brownstein supports his findings with data from Peter Doshi and epidemiologist and Dr. Tom Jefferson. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/melissa-floyd/support

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0:17.0	Hello and welcome back to another episode of what they aren't telling you. I am Melissa Floyd and you may know me from the Vaccine conversation podcast with Dr. Bob Sears or you may know me
0:25.8	from social media where you saw me cover the unpopular opinion on COVID-19 over these last several months.
0:35.0	Dr Bob didn't want to talk about that anymore in our podcast,
0:38.0	so I created this one and I'm really enjoying it
0:42.0	and just want to quickly say how much I really enjoy my following, which is you, you guys.
0:49.0	I have the best group of people. These are intelligent and invested individuals who
0:57.4	continue to bring me great new information. They continue to add to the comments very insightful dialogue.
1:07.0	Like this isn't just a social media following with people giving likes and whatnot,
1:11.0	we're talking about people who are really trying to have good
1:13.4	conversations and they're bringing that to me too. Any post that you'll see of
1:19.1	mine on social media there's going to be a great discussion happening in the comments, which is really cool.
1:25.0	A lot of times I just leave it alone. I try to engage as much as possible, but then I just leave it alone and let people have these intelligent debates and discussions on their own, which they do.
1:35.8	And I don't see that in most social media followings.
1:40.3	So I have to give you guys some props because this group that's supporting me continues to motivate and inspire me and I'm honestly really really grateful for you guys and I'm encouraged by you guys.
1:52.0	I also want to give a shout. guys and I'm encouraged by you guys.
1:52.7	I also want to give a shout out to all of my new podcast supporters.
1:59.8	So on an episode, a few episodes back, I let you guys know that there is a way that you can
2:05.2	support me on this to keep me being able to make new episodes for you with new information.
2:11.5	And the way that you do that, it's really simple. On the summary of each episode, there's a link at the bottom to support and it's so simple. You click on it, it could be a dollar a month, five dollars a month, ten10 a month, whatever you feel comfortable with, and then that comes
2:26.4	to me to allow me to continue to bring good things to you.
2:30.9	So I am not going to mention you all by name everybody that's listed in the past couple of weeks
2:36.4	but I really appreciate you guys and I'm also creating a Patreon account which is is gonna allow people monthly subscriptions and exclusive content.
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