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The FDA is threatening to ban NAC supplements because the agency claims it was sold as a drug before it was a supplement; meanwhile, Big Pharma is hoping to turn it into an expensive drug using a new indication.
Our minds are wired to select for cognitive ease and forcefully reject information which challenges our present worldview. Pushing past the cognitive discomfort and facing reality is the only way to come to real understanding.
On February 10, we achieved a remarkable victory — Pfizer was forced to withdraw its Emergency Use Authorization application to inject kids 6 months to four years old because the data was so terrible. But it was a temporary reprieve.
Before this country succumbs to calls for a return to Cold War-style Pentagon spending, it’s important to note that the United States is already spending substantially more than it did at the height of the Korean and Vietnam Wars or, in fact, any other moment in that first Cold War.
The pandemic has continued to take its natural course into the narrative of human history this year. Collectively, we must come to terms with the evidence of widespread harm we have engineered in humanity and our planet through the bureaucratic “public health” interventions that have accelerated economic, agronomic, and biologic collapse around the world.
The rule for covering such a story is obvious: write about both possibilities as evenhandedly as possible until the truth emerges. But science writers have consistently trumpeted any developments favoring natural emergence while downplaying or ignoring those pointing to a lab leak.