{"id":335487,"date":"2017-11-18T02:11:34","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T01:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/death-by-a-thousand-cuts-when-the-cures-of-big-pharma-are-worse-than-the-diseases\/"},"modified":"2017-11-18T02:11:34","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T01:11:34","slug":"death-by-a-thousand-cuts-when-the-cures-of-big-pharma-are-worse-than-the-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/death-by-a-thousand-cuts-when-the-cures-of-big-pharma-are-worse-than-the-diseases\/","title":{"rendered":"Death by a Thousand Cuts: When the Cures of Big Pharma are Worse than the Diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The more chemicals, drugs, vaccines, additives, toxins they make, the more difficult it is to escape from big business\u2019 straight-jacket\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The vaccine debate and prying into Planned Parenthood\u2019s Standard Operating Procedure are two arenas I have not gravitated toward. Genetically-engineered crops, industrial farming, confined feeding operations (CAFOs), dams killing wild salmon, these are my fortes.<\/p>\n<p>The news daily is like death by a thousand cuts for me tied to new studies on collapsing ecosystems, indigenous people fighting against mines and other extractive industries, and more and more on climate change\/global warming.<\/p>\n<p>I never thought I\u2019d be embroiled in a fight for my livelihood because I questioned the rampant vaccination of girls (and now boys) with the Merck marketed HPV vaccine, Gardasil. To date, more than 270,000,000 doses have been distributed worldwide, this HPV vaccine (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.columbiamissourian.com\/news\/local\/new-hpv-vaccination-program-sets-a-wildly-ambitious-goal-for\/article_77cc7744-b282-11e7-ab38-57db31708a5c.html\">World Health Organization\u2019s Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety<\/a>) distributed by both GlaxoSmithKline and Merck versions. There are scientists who say the\u00a0human papillomavirus is not the cancer threat posited by the drug manufacturers and their paid-off doctors;\u00a0 that most immune systems can fight off the HPV; that the vaccine only hits two of the more than 40 different HPV phenotypes.<\/p>\n<p>My story with HPV vaccine started when I was in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plannedparenthood.org\/health-center\/washington\/seattle\/98122\/seattle-health-center-3309-91810?utm_campaign=seattle-health-center&amp;utm_medium=organic&amp;utm_source=bing-local-listing\">Planned Parenthood<\/a> training last month, a mandatory course for social workers titled Fundamentals of Sex Ed. For a total of possibly 30&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2017\/11\/death-by-a-thousand-cuts-when-the-cures-of-big-pharma-are-worse-than-the-diseases\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The more chemicals, drugs, vaccines, additives, toxins they make, the more difficult it is to escape from big business\u2019 straight-jacket\u00a0\u00a0 The vaccine debate and prying into Planned Parenthood\u2019s Standard Operating Procedure are two arenas I have not gravitated toward. Genetically-engineered crops, industrial farming, confined feeding operations (CAFOs), dams killing wild salmon, these are my fortes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-335487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}