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I'm stunned. The eighties. Children. Jesus.
I think it was Bayer who sent hiv infected products to Africa since they couldn't sell them in the US.
Ghoulish
Oh, the Roundup and Zyklon people? Go figure.
One was only an infant. What the ever-loving holy fuck.
Even the nineties and beyond, if you think of the vaccine-causing-autism to-do and mad cow disease.
Can you please point me to credible studies wrt that?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2323045/ "Wakefield admits fabricating events when he took children’s blood samples"
I suppose I wasn't clear, but I was referring to the fella who first came out and said the MMR vaccine was linked to autism, which was fraudulent of course and there's a good documentary about it, but I mentioned it specifically because he was taking children's blood unethically. Mad cow disease is less relevant but it's more broadly an example of unethical treatment leading to an epidemic.
Thank you! I thought you were claiming "vaccines cause autism and mad cow disease." If you can recall the title of the doc, please drop it, I'd love to see it, in due time.
Thanks again.
I did wonder what people were thinking I was saying, haha, but I accept I must've just written it clumsily.
Here's the documentary on youtube, it's actually a standout example of investigative journalism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UbL8opM6TM
And there's this youtube video essay based on it which sexes it up a bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BIcAZxFfrc
That's awesome, thanks! I may have time to see it shortly!
Enjoy!