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- There are some interesting theories about aspirin. For example that it was Rasputin's secret healing trick to tell people to stop taking it:
"Gilliard,[32] the French historian Hélène Carrère d'Encausse[33] and Diarmuid Jeffreys, a journalist, speculated Rasputin's healing practice included halting the administration of aspirin, a pain-relieving analgesic available since 1899.[34] Aspirin is an antiaggregant and has blood-thinning properties; it prevents clotting, and promotes bleeding which could have caused the hemarthrosis. The "wonder drug" would have worsened Alexei's joints' swelling and pain.[35][36]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Nikolaevich,_Tsarevich_...
It is also claimed to be the real cause of the "Spanish flu":
"The high case-fatality rate—especially among young adults—during the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic is incompletely understood. Although late deaths showed bacterial pneumonia, early deaths exhibited extremely “wet,” sometimes hemorrhagic lungs. The hypothesis presented herein is that aspirin contributed to the incidence and severity of viral pathology, bacterial infection, and death, because physicians of the day were unaware that the regimens (8.0–31.2 g per day) produce levels associated with hyperventilation and pulmonary edema in 33% and 3% of recipients, respectively. Recently, pulmonary edema was found at autopsy in 46% of 26 salicylate-intoxicated adults. Experimentally, salicylates increase lung fluid and protein levels and impair mucociliary clearance. In 1918, the US Surgeon General, the US Navy, and the Journal of the American Medical Association recommended use of aspirin just before the October death spike. If these recommendations were followed, and if pulmonary edema occurred in 3% of persons, a significant proportion of the deaths may be attributable to aspirin." https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/49/9/1405/301441/Salicy...
- An accurate description of the pharma industry (been there, seen it):
Jeffreys, Diarmuid (August 11, 2005). Aspirin: The Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drug. Bloomsbury USA. p. 73. ISBN 1582346003.
But there is an idea in the article, which does seem to be true: most of our current problems are industrial-technology related (environment, energy etc. consumption, known as "externalities" in economic lies, which is basically abusing Earth -- and therefore ourselves -- in the current "economic" system) and just doing more of the same might not be the way out.
Another "critique": All watched over by machines loving grace and Henrietta Lax by Adam Curtis (BBC documentaries). Adam goes further, with TINA.
