is there a group known as Big Pharma
creating diseases withholding cures and
catching huge checks while innocent
people die of extremely curable and
treatable diseases
now big Pharma generally refers to the
collective of pharmaceutical companies
politicians insurance companies
corporations ngos I don't even know what
that is mainly anyone who profits from
prescription drugs while there are a few
different beliefs Under the Umbrella of
the big Pharma conspiracy theory the
general idea is that big Pharma is run
by a small handful of people who
prioritize profit over human lives so
with that let's take a look at some of
the big Pharma conspiracy's greatest
hits
since the 1981 HIV and AIDS epidemic
rumors circulated that it was created by
the CIA in order to eradicate black
people and members of the lgbtq plus
community and further some say that gay
men were intentionally injected with the
disease during Hep B experiments in New
York in 1978. others suggest it was
established by Richard Nixon when he
combined the U.S Army's by a Warfare
Department with the National Cancer
Institute in 1971. while acknowledging
that the government has not historically
had the best interest of marginalized
groups like these in mind there still is
a good amount of evidence that debunks
these theories firstly most scientists
agree that sometime in the 1930s HIV
AIDS transferred from monkeys to human
molecular biologists have traced the
origin of hiv-1 after Decades of
analyzing genetic code in different
viruses that infect monkeys chimpanzees
and humans they found that the infection
was most likely transferred to the
practice of eating wild animals known as
bush meat it was found that hiv's
Origins were actually two different
viruses that separately infected two
different monkeys at some point somehow
both of the monkey blood intern
chimpanzee and the virus is mutated into
one called SIV or Simian
immunodeficiency virus then sometime
between 1910 and 1950 a human hunted
down one of these chimpanzees for bush
meat SIV entered the human's bloodstream
and mutated into HIV another simpler
point in arguing against the idea that
HIV was created in a lab is that it just
wasn't technologically possible at any
of the times the theory suggests the
technology to create or recreate a virus
was only made recently in 2002 when the
polio virus was recreated
fluoride conspiracy theory started back
in the 1950s when people claimed that it
was created by Communists to make
Americans less intelligent conspiracy
theorists believe that fluoride lowers
IQ causes diseases like Alzheimer's
cancer anemia some also believe that
it's a way for the government to
practice mind control or that it causes
people to eat more sweets while
preventing cavities to boost the sugar
industry anti-fluoridationists believe
that toothpaste with a warning that a
poison Center should be called if a
child ingests too much serves as
evidence Grand Rapids Michigan was the
first to test fluoride in the water in
1945 and while it was done without
people's consent it was a successful
experiment 11 years into the 15-year
study 30 000 School children's rates of
cavities had dropped by 60 percent more
Studies have shown that consistent
exposure to low level of fluoride can
reduce tooth decay by 25 in adults and
children additionally fluoride is a
chemical compound that is naturally
present in water
without government intervention Joseph
yuchinski author of American conspiracy
theories comments in relation to the
fluoride conspiracy theories now you
have this weird backlash where people
think that anything that is a chemical
is bad even though everything is a
chemical it is worth pointing out that
copious amounts of fluoride and prenatal
fluoride exposure can be dangerous but
many Dental experts point to the
significantly lower levels of fluoride
in the U.S than other countries
according to the worldwide cancer
research over a quarter of Americans
already believed that there is a secret
cure for cancer no cure has been found
of course because first of all cancer is
an umbrella term for over 200 different
types of diseases that vary and cause
growth and spread so naturally there
wouldn't be a single cure-all but
progress has been made reportedly in the
last 40 years cancer survival rates have
doubled and can you imagine the sheer
number of people that would have to know
about and keep a cure a secret it's
possibly in the hundreds of thousands
vaccines have been quite the Hot Topic
over the last few decades and now with
the new pandemic the discourse around
them has become even more polarizing
reportedly 20 percent of Americans
believe that doctors hand out vaccines
even though they are aware it causes
autism and UNICEF reports that
approximately one-third of Americans
believe that the dangers of vaccines are
kept hidden from the public so that
pharmacies can continue to profit MMR
the mumps measles and rubella vaccine
has become the primary target of the
vaccines causes autism conspiracy but
the study that was published linking the
two was revoked in 2005 and the Doctor
Who authored it lost his medical license
also before the study was even declared
fraudulent major health organizations
such as the AAP the National Institute
of Health the CDC and the World Health
Organization all rejected it despite
this being rejected over and over again
the claim still persists mostly spread
by people with absolutely no medical
credentials whatsoever and of course
this fear of vaccines reared its ugly
head again with the covid-19 pandemic we
currently find ourselves still in claims
regarding the coveted vaccine range from
the idea that it Alters your DNA that it
installs a microchip that Bill Gates
created or even the idea that it gives
you the virus itself but to Quail one's
concerns of these theories all you need
to do is look to and more importantly
listen to
science in regard to the covid-19
vaccines the CDC states that the
vaccines are safe the vaccine has
undergone many tests and will continue
to be monitored for safety getting the
vaccine reduces the risks of getting ill
and spreading the virus and it's
literally saving people's lives in
regards to the booster shots and the
well if the vaccine works why do I need
to get a booster shot idea they've been
proven to work and the vaccines have
been proven to become less effective as
time goes on the boosters have been
proven to increase the immune response
why might someone choose to not only
believe some or all of these theories
but to spread them as well a passage
from the book covid-19 conspiracy theory
states conspiracy theories are often
shared among people who lack or feel
like they lack Social Power according to
an Atlantic article written in January
2021 public trust in both government and
fellow citizens is at or near historic
lows I've covered this a bit more in
depth in my video the psychology of
conspiracy theories but the long and
short of it is the world is as dark and
scary as it's ever been deciding that
there's an evil them actually in a weird
Twisted roundabout way makes Believers
of these conspiracy theories feel better
so if it's not the abundance of evidence
that contradicts a myriad of theories
like these that makes you hesitate to
believe or share them ask yourself this
is this really a picture of the world
and people that I want to believe I'm
not saying that world history isn't full
of heinous acts and horrifying people
but to get out of your door every day
and to get us out of this pandemic
you might just want to listen to science
and trust that people aren't as awful as
you think they are