Sunday, May 8, 2011

A Generous Donation to an Unworthy Cause

I just read yet another article about more wasted money.  The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation made a most generous donation to the one of worst possible causes.  The Gates donated ten billion dollars to research new vaccines.

This is the saddest, the most frustrating and disturbing thing I've learned about yet.  Bill Gates could have put all of that money into researching the dangers of thimerosal, the question about the rise in autism and learning disabilities or something that we could all benefit from.  But he gave it to an industry that has plenty of money to do research some of which they acquired by selling something like psychotropic drugs which are useless, ineffective and responsible for 40,000 deaths per year!  What a HORRIBLE waste of money!

The power of advertisement and media is amazing.  Some of the smartest people are fooled and there are even some scientists who won't see that there are holes in the stories that conglomerates like the pharmaceutical industry will put forth. 

This is the kind of information that makes me wish I didn’t know what I know.  I find it very overwhelming.

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