[artificialLimbs]

>> these organizations have mostly trended in the right direction

[citation needed]

Not sure how many times the government and pharmaceutical companies have to be proven horrifically, detrimentally corrupt before people become concerned enough to push back. For many, the answer is "after it's too late".

[lotsofpulp]

The citation is infant mortality rates, and talking to all of my grandparents and their brothers and sisters and how women used to regularly have babies die or have polio or smallpox. And now it is very rare to have any of that happen.

[artificialLimbs]

>> infant mortality rates

which precipitously plummeted with the uptake of indoor plumbing.

I will not forget the times pharma has killed thousands and never even suffered so much as a lawsuit.