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by DanielGee 2862 days ago
Especially considering medicine has a long history of being co-opted by money.

There was a time when doctors were paid to push cigarettes by cigarette companies.

https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/throwback-thursday-wh...

And of course in recent times, pharma was able to convince doctors to push addictive painkillers to patients.

A healthy skepticism is a good thing in science.