I tend to agree with Burr! We are laymen or patients so you are getting our views which will be things we read in the Daily Ma+l!
There is no mistrust of Doctors intentions but when you get a Multi Billion $ Industry who make those $Billions selling drugs there has to naturally be suspicion.
Those same Drug companies have massive marketing budgets to bring the medical world into their line of thinking and I am sure it works.
A cure would never suit those drug companies while a life long customer would and sometimes I wonder how much the drug companies prevent the Goal of cure rather than encouraging prolonged treatment as Cures would not be of benefit to them.
Where huge amounts of money come into the argument it is only natural to question the motives?
In the same way drugs have side effects, some small some not so small?
When we as laypeople see Scientists wanting to mass medicate people over the age of 50 healthy or otherwise with drugs like statins you have to question the motives or the fact that those scientists are seeing what they want to see because their mandate is to expand markets for the drug companies.
We had the horrendous revelation of the effects of sleeping pills churned out like smarties by Doctors 15 -20 years ago.
Those same Doctors would have been on forums like this claiming the evidence and safety of those drugs.
Now look at the results? Increases by 50% in dementia cases in those who took the drugs 15 years ago.
Somehow I have a sneaking suspicion that we will get the same with Statins at some point in the future.
Pace
Last edited by Pace; 29th Nov 2012 at 14:11.