principiascientificinternational--2020-07-02--Big Pharma Using Pandemic to Steal From You

Big Pharma Using Pandemic to Steal From You A major theme running throughout the SARS-CoV2 virus pandemic has been and especially in the early days : NO RETURN TO NORMAL UNTIL A VACCINE IS AVAILABLE This became a meme in the citizen ’ s zeitgeist .
It is present everywhere from football web sites to Government mouthpieces .
In April 2020 the UK Government launched the Vaccine Taskforce pledging £250 million from the Government Aid budget .
In May 2020 the UK Government announced £93 million On the 4th of may we had this from the UK ’ s esteemed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is just the UK .
In the USA as of April 1st 2020 we had this : What about this from May 21st 2020 in The Street : The big picture is that a vaccine has now been accepted and reinforced in public consciousness and that billions are being spent on rushing miracle cures to the unsuspecting masses .
In 1976 , Americans faced a sustained propaganda campaign of Vaccination against ‘ swine-flu ’ .
If you haven ’ t watched it then watch it now 60 minutes .
During the swine-flu ‘ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of swine flu vaccine had been ordered by national governments from Big Pharma .
Millions of vaccine doses were subsequently destroyed : a financial bonanza for Big Pharma .
They had contracted to buy the vaccine only if the WHO raised the level of the ‘ pandemic ’ from 5 to 6 .
The film by investigative reporter Lillian Frank , Trust WHO , is a must watch .
It is available for free .
If you have Amazon Prime !
The familiar theme running throughout these ‘ pandemics ’ is vaccines .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ have seen that vaccines can be rushed to market without proper testing .
Why ?
Like the snake oil salesmen of yore , Big Pharma sells a dream of Health to the masses with dubious scientific claims of the beneficial effects of various chemicals .
The most prescribed drugs in the US are opioid pain relievers .
An unfortunate side effect of this bold faced lie was So lies told by Pharmaceutical companies in the late 90 ’ s cause today ’ s opioid crisis , made worse by the ridiculously easy manufacture @ @ @ @ @ @ @ deal with the crisis .
Well there ’ s a great economic model .
Invent drugs which solve a problem , lie about the benefits of your drug , which leads to a huge problem which needs more health resources to deal with it , all of which results in huge societal costs increasing police time and resources , court time and resources and causes excess deaths .
Suspiciously , vaccines seems to fit this model with the added benefit of reduced time to market .
The figure below shows the life cycle @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s eventual appearance on the market .
It is a long and difficult process , taking between 10 to 15 years .
It is from the PCRS Network whose aim is to reduce “ Inefficiencies in clinical trials and significant time and cost to bring lifesaving drugs and therapies to market.
” Which really equates to “ we want our money and we want it now !
” The rush to reduce time to market for new drugs is based on the declining return on investment of the established pharmaceutical business model @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Big Pharma business model at ENDPOINTS .
The author of the article , Kelvin Stott analyses the business model from the ROI ( Return on Investment ) of Research and Development costs ( R & D ) .
Bare in mind that this was written in 2017 .
We have seen the huge lead time between investing capital in a new drug and when it actually gets to market to make money .
This can be between 10 to 16 years .
There is no guarantee that the drug will reach market @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not .
Using a simple ROI model has many limitations but avoids cashflow assumptions , interest rates , cost of capital and myriad other factors which would be used in a more complicated IRR ( Internal Rate of Return ) model .
Kelvin Stott uses the simpler ROI model to calculate the IRR on Pharma in any given year by the simpler formula : Where c is the average investment period of 13 years .
He presents the upshot of his calculations in the rather revealing graphs below .
The dashed black line @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Capital .
The CoC is a figure used by a business often as a hurdle rate to determine if a project is worth taking forward .
It is often used to analyse the benefits and risks of investing in different projects and businesses .
For example , the political risk of investing in Bangladesh may drive the CoC to 12 % as compared to the UK at 10 % .
The graph shows clearly that IRR is below the cost of capital in ~2017 .
The second graph in Kelvin ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and could continue to evolve in the future : We are already at the stage of Biopharma , Antibodies & NBE ’ s .
This is the future .
But what has not been considered in the strategy of reducing time to market In 2018 , Standish Fleming wrote an article for Forbes , which , ‘ though critical of Kelvin Stott ’ s analysis , nevertheless managed to agree with him .
Price Waterhouse explains it their paper Pharma 2020 : Challenging business model published in 2007 : This is already happening @ @ @ @ @ @ @ partnering with Universities and Biotech start-up companies .
Changing a business model is never easy .
Businesses take time to adapt to new market conditions .
There will be casualties and there will be the last hurrahs of an old empire .
The last company to make wheels for horse drawn carriages probably made the best wheel ever produced .
And the went out of business .
SARS-CoV2 , the virus behind the corona crisis , was identified in January 2020 .
Here we are in June 2020 and already we have clinical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s research has been backed by AstraZEneca .
Human trials in 3 months !
!
!
We have already touched , and I mean ‘ touched ’ on the billions of Government money i.e .
taxpayer money being invested in a COVID-19 vaccine but get this : 2 billion doses .
Quality over quantity ?
Forget about the hugely expensive failure rate for drug R & D , clinical trials and eventual approval .
Let ’ s see who will be the first company to produce 2 billion vaccine shots for $ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 45 a shot at Walmart .
A drug that doesn ’ t work .
Some pharma companies ( Gilead ) are marketing old drugs such as Remdesivir , as a treatment .
An antiviral which has proven to be ineffective against the virus it was created for ( Hepatitis C ) and failed .
Then was abandoned as a treatment for Ebola .
Despite this , it was approved by the American FDA on 1st May to treat COVID-19 .
Forget Standish Fleming ’ s call for the quality of outcome of new @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
What we have now is a feeding frenzy created by a world-wide over-reaction to what has turned out to be , a mild viral infection .
Moderna , one of the front runners in a race to create a ‘ COVID-19 ’ vaccine has seen it ’ s stock price rise from around $ 20 to $ 61 since the coronavirus crisis developed .
Despite the fact that they don ’ t currently have any products to sell .
Co-incidentally , I am sure that this was just a fortuitous coincidence .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ estimated to approach $ 60 billion by 2024 .
This was before the corona virus ‘ crisis ’ started shovelling tens of billions into finding a vaccine which would allow us to return to ‘ normal ’ .
Given the 2009 ‘ Swine Flu ’ fiasco , this must seem like Deja Poo to the pharmaceutical industry .
Easy money .
Imagine you were the CFO of Moderna .
Would you ‘ take the money and run ’ ?
David Meline , the former CFO of Amgen ( AMGN ) stock price of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ job .
The pharma industry has a broken business model .
It spends $ 295 million in lobbying in the USA .
More than twice that of the Electronics industry at a mere $ 157 million .
Source SARS-CoV2 must seem like Mana from heaven .
About the author : Graeme McMillan graduated with Honours from Edinburgh University ( Politics , Philosophy and Economics ) then gained further qualifications in Business Analysis , Project management , Statistics and Programming .
He has had a long career in the UK mining industry in mine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ management and programming .
He then moved to the metals and minerals sector developing simulation modelling of materials handling ( scrap , slag , semi-finished and finished products ) as well as financial modelling of large mining and steel plant projects .
Latterly , he ran his company ’ s Middle East and North African division .
Graeme is now retired .
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Big Pharma Using Pandemic to Steal From You
Written by Graeme McMillan
A major theme running throughout the SARS-CoV2 virus pandemic has been and especially in the early days: NO RETURN TO NORMAL UNTIL A VACCINE IS AVAILABLE
This became a meme in the citizen’s zeitgeist. It is present everywhere from football web sites to Government mouthpieces.
In April 2020 the UK Government launched the Vaccine Taskforce pledging £250 million from the Government Aid budget. In May 2020 the UK Government announced £93 million
“to accelerate construction of the new Vaccines Manufacturing and Innovation Centre () which, when completed, will have capacity to produce enough vaccine doses to serve the entire UK population in as little as six months.”
On the 4th of may we had this from the UK’s esteemed if somewhat partially visible leader.
“He will confirm the UK’s pledge of £388 million in UK aid funding for research into vaccines, tests and treatments – part of a larger £744 million existing UK aid commitment to help end the pandemic and support the global economy.”
That is just the UK.
In the USA as of April 1st 2020 we had this:
“Johnson & Johnson announced on Monday (March 30) a joint investment with the US government of $1 billion intended to create the capacity to manufacture more than 1 billion doses of a vaccine, reports Reuters, and the efforts will be funded in part by roughly $420 million from BARDA.”
What about this from May 21st 2020 in The Street:
“British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca (AZN) – Get Report has received more than $1 billion from the U.S. government to boost the manufacturing of an experimental coronavirus vaccine from the University of Oxford.”
The big picture is that a vaccine has now been accepted and reinforced in public consciousness and that billions are being spent on rushing miracle cures to the unsuspecting masses.
“It’s deja vu all over again!”
In 1976, Americans faced a sustained propaganda campaign of Vaccination against ‘swine-flu’. If you haven’t watched it then watch it now 60 minutes.
During the swine-flu ‘pandemic’ of 2009 millions of doses of swine flu vaccine had been ordered by national governments from Big Pharma. Millions of vaccine doses were subsequently destroyed: a financial bonanza for Big Pharma. They had contracted to buy the vaccine only if the WHO raised the level of the ‘pandemic’ from 5 to 6.
“On the basis of … expert assessments of the evidence, the scientific criteria for an influenza pandemic have been met. I have therefore decided to raise the level of influenza pandemic alert from Phase 5 to Phase 6. The world is now at the start of the 2009 influenza pandemic.…Margaret Chan, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO), Press Briefing 11 June 2009)
The film by investigative reporter Lillian Frank, Trust WHO, is a must watch. It is available for free. If you have Amazon Prime!
The familiar theme running throughout these ‘pandemics’ is vaccines. From 1976 to 2009 to 2020 we have seen that vaccines can be rushed to market without proper testing. Why?
Big Pharma’s business model is broken.
Like the snake oil salesmen of yore, Big Pharma sells a dream of Health to the masses with dubious scientific claims of the beneficial effects of various chemicals.
As Frank Zappa opined in Cosmic Debris:
“With the oil of aphrodite, and the dust of the grand wazoo
He said you might not believe this, little fella
But it’ll cure your asthma too”
The most prescribed drugs in the US are opioid pain relievers.
“In the late 1990s, pharmaceutical companies reassured the medical community that patients would not become addicted to prescription opioid pain relievers, and healthcare providers began to prescribe them at greater rates.” Source
An unfortunate side effect of this bold faced lie was
“that the total “economic burden” of prescription opioid misuse alone in the United States is $78.5 billion a year, including the costs of healthcare, lost productivity, addiction treatment, and criminal justice involvement.” Source
So lies told by Pharmaceutical companies in the late 90’s cause today’s opioid crisis, made worse by the ridiculously easy manufacture of Fentanyl , and spawned whole industries to deal with the crisis.
Well there’s a great economic model. Invent drugs which solve a problem, lie about the benefits of your drug, which leads to a huge problem which needs more health resources to deal with it, all of which results in huge societal costs increasing police time and resources, court time and resources and causes excess deaths.
Suspiciously, vaccines seems to fit this model with the added benefit of reduced time to market.
The figure below shows the life cycle from discovering a new drug to it’s eventual appearance on the market.
It is a long and difficult process, taking between 10 to 15 years. It is from the PCRS Network whose aim is to reduce “Inefficiencies in clinical trials and significant time and cost to bring lifesaving drugs and therapies to market.”
Which really equates to “we want our money and we want it now!”
The rush to reduce time to market for new drugs is based on the declining return on investment of the established pharmaceutical business model.
There is an excellent analysis of the Big Pharma business model at ENDPOINTS. The author of the article, Kelvin Stott analyses the business model from the ROI (Return on Investment) of Research and Development costs (R&D). Bare in mind that this was written in 2017.
We have seen the huge lead time between investing capital in a new drug and when it actually gets to market to make money.
This can be between 10 to 16 years. There is no guarantee that the drug will reach market and in most cases, probably will not.
Using a simple ROI model has many limitations but avoids cashflow assumptions, interest rates, cost of capital and myriad other factors which would be used in a more complicated IRR (Internal Rate of Return) model.
“As it happens, this average investment period is relatively stable and well-defined, as it is largely driven by a fixed standard patent term of 20 years, as well as a historically stable R&D phase lasting roughly 14 years from start to finish. Thus, the average investment period is about 13 years, from the midpoint of the R&D phase after 7 years, plus another 6 years to reach peak sales before loss of exclusivity.” Source
Kelvin Stott uses the simpler ROI model to calculate the IRR on Pharma in any given year by the simpler formula:
IRR(x) = [ (EBIT(x+c) + R&D(x+c)) / R&D(x) ]^(1/c) – 1
Where c is the average investment period of 13 years.
He presents the upshot of his calculations in the rather revealing graphs below.
The dashed black line in the above graph is the Cost of Capital. The CoC is a figure used by a business often as a hurdle rate to determine if a project is worth taking forward. It is often used to analyse the benefits and risks of investing in different projects and businesses. For example, the political risk of investing in Bangladesh may drive the CoC to 12{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} as compared to the UK at 10{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117}.
The graph shows clearly that IRR is below the cost of capital in ~2017.
The second graph in Kelvin’s article shows how Parma has cyclically evolved and could continue to evolve in the future:
We are already at the stage of Biopharma, Antibodies & NBE’s. This is the future. But what has not been considered in the strategy of reducing time to market
In 2018, Standish Fleming wrote an article for Forbes, which, ‘though critical of Kelvin Stott’s analysis, nevertheless managed to agree with him.
“Today multi-national pharma is optimized for late-stage clinical research and international marketing. As a result, discovery has become the limiting factor in productivity.”
His solution?
“Cooperation with small companies will enable pharma to pursue two very different activities at the same time—discovery and large-scale development—one driven by the individual genius of inventors; the other by corporate infrastructure. The crazy-high failure rate of early-stage investments requires a low-cost, high-quantity strategy. Once proof-of-concept is achieved, advancing a drug to the market demands global resources and a fanatic devotion to quality. Over the course of development, the process must evolve seamlessly from a quantity to a quality strategy.”
Price Waterhouse explains it their paper Pharma 2020: Challenging business model published in 2007:
“By 2020, no pharmaceutical company will be able to “profit alone”. It will, rather, have to “profit together”, by joining forces with a wide range of organisations, from academic institutions, hospitals and technology providers to companies offering compliance programmes, nutritional advice, stress management, physiotherapy, exercise facilities, health screening and other such services.”
This is already happening. Pharma companies are investing in and partnering with Universities and Biotech start-up companies.
Changing a business model is never easy. Businesses take time to adapt to new market conditions. There will be casualties and there will be the last hurrahs of an old empire. The last company to make wheels for horse drawn carriages probably made the best wheel ever produced. And the went out of business.
Quantity over Quality
SARS-CoV2, the virus behind the corona crisis, was identified in January 2020. Here we are in June 2020 and already we have clinical trials being carried out.
“Oxford University researchers began human trials of a ‘COVID-19’ Vaccine as early as April 2020. The phase I trial in healthy adult volunteers began in April. More than 1,000 immunisations have been completed and follow-up is currently ongoing. The next study will enrol up to 10,260 adults and children and will involve a number of partner institutions across the country.” Source
Oxford University’s research has been backed by AstraZEneca. Human trials in 3 months!!!
“WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan said Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate was “not far behind” AstraZeneca’s, among more than 200 candidates, 15 of which have entered clinical trials. “We do know that Moderna’s vaccine is also going to go into phase three clinical trials, probably from the middle of July, and so that vaccine candidate is not far behind,” she said.”
We have already touched, and I mean ‘touched’ on the billions of Government money i.e. taxpayer money being invested in a COVID-19 vaccine but get this:
“The World Health Organization and two global health nonprofits said Friday they have an $18 billion plan to procure two billion doses of eventual coronavirus vaccines for distribution in developing nations.” Source
2 billion doses. Quality over quantity? Forget about the hugely expensive failure rate for drug R&D, clinical trials and eventual approval. Let’s see who will be the first company to produce 2 billion vaccine shots for $10 a pop. Tamiflu is $45 a shot at Walmart. A drug that doesn’t work.
Some pharma companies (Gilead) are marketing old drugs such as Remdesivir, as a treatment. An antiviral which has proven to be ineffective against the virus it was created for (Hepatitis C) and failed. Then was abandoned as a treatment for Ebola. Despite this, it was approved by the American FDA on 1st May to treat COVID-19.
Forget Standish Fleming’s call for the quality of outcome of new treatments versus the quantity of new drugs. What we have now is a feeding frenzy created by a world-wide over-reaction to what has turned out to be, a mild viral infection.
Moderna, one of the front runners in a race to create a ‘COVID-19’ vaccine has seen it’s stock price rise from around $20 to $61 since the coronavirus crisis developed. Despite the fact that they don’t currently have any products to sell. Co-incidentally,
“Moderna’s chief financial officer and chief medical officer executed options and sold nearly $30 million of shares combined on Monday and Tuesday, SEC filings reviewed by CNN Business show.” Source
I am sure that this was just a fortuitous coincidence.
The global vaccine market value has been estimated to approach $60 billion by 2024. This was before the corona virus ‘crisis’ started shovelling tens of billions into finding a vaccine which would allow us to return to ‘normal’.
Given the 2009 ‘Swine Flu’ fiasco, this must seem like Deja Poo to the pharmaceutical industry. Easy money.
Imagine you were the CFO of Moderna. Would you ‘take the money and run’? David Meline, the former CFO of Amgen (AMGN) stock price of ~$255 has now taken his job.
The pharma industry has a broken business model. It spends $295 million in lobbying in the USA. More than twice that of the Electronics industry at a mere $157 million. Source
SARS-CoV2 must seem like Mana from heaven.
About the author: Graeme McMillan graduated with Honours from Edinburgh University (Politics, Philosophy and Economics) then gained further qualifications in Business Analysis, Project management, Statistics and Programming. He has had a long career in the UK mining industry in mine planning, geological modelling and computer systems management and programming. He then moved to the metals and minerals sector developing simulation modelling of materials handling (scrap, slag, semi-finished and finished products) as well as financial modelling of large mining and steel plant projects. Latterly, he ran his company’s Middle East and North African division. Graeme is now retired.
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principiascientificinternational--2020-07-03--Lockdown May Have Killed More Seniors Than Covid-19

Lockdown May Have Killed More Seniors Than Covid-19 Reflect On : Was lockdown really the right thing to do ?
Why have so many doctors and scientists who ’ ve said that it ’ s not the right thing to do been completely censored and banned by social media platforms ?
What ’ s going on here ?
A new report published in the British Medical Journal titled Covid-19 : “ Staggering number ” of extra deaths in community is not explained by covid-19″ has suggested that quarantine measures in the United Kingdom as a result of the new coronavirus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than the coronavirus has during the months of April and May .
According to the data , Covid-19 only accounts for 10,000 of the 30,000 excess deaths that have been recorded in senior care facilities during the height of the pandemic .
The article suggests and also quotes British Health officials stating that these unexplained deaths may have occurred because Quarantine measures have prevented seniors from accessing the health care that they need .
The report was written by Shaun Griffin , a PhD in DNA repair from UCL .
He has worked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 20 years at Wellcome , UK Biobank , Human Tissue Authority and the Nuffield Council on Bioethics .
He is currently at the Association of Medical Research Charities and is vice chair of a research ethics committee .
According to him , David Spiegelhalter , chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication at the University of Cambridge , said that covid-19 did not explain the high number of deaths taking place in the community .
At a briefing hosted by the Science Media Centre on 12 May he explained that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ care homes and other community settings had had to deal with a “ staggering burden ” of 30 000 more deaths than would normally be expected , as patients were moved out of hospitals that were anticipating high demand for beds .
Of those 30 000 , only 10 000 have had covid-19 specified on the death certificate .
While Spiegelhalter acknowledged that some of these “ excess deaths ” might be the result of underdiagnosis , “ the huge number of unexplained extra deaths in homes and care homes is extraordinary .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ this rise in non-covid extra deaths outside the hospital is something I hope will be given really severe attention.
” He added that many of these deaths would be among people “ who may well have lived longer if they had managed to get to hospital .
David Leon , professor of epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine , agreed .
“ Some of these deaths may not have occurred if people had got to hospital , ” he said .
“ How many is unclear .
This issue @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to ensure that those who would benefit from hospital treatment and care for other conditions can get it.
” The report also mentions that in Scotland , in the first week after lockdown , a spike in deaths were recorded from all causes .
At the end of the day , the coronavirus pandemic has clearly been a catalyst for more people to speak up against misinformation and measures being imposed on the human race that a lot of people disagree with .
Information has surfaced calling into question the measures that have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that comes from credible sources and has evidence to support is being labelled as “ fake news .
For example , YouTube is removing any content that contradicts the world health organization , and some of the world ’ s leading scientists and epidemiologists on this topic have been completely censored .
It just doesn ’ t make sense .
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Lockdown May Have Killed More Seniors Than Covid-19
Written by Arjun Walia
The Facts: A new article published in the British Medical Journal has suggested that quarantine measures in the United Kingdom as a result of the new coronavirus may have already killed more UK seniors than the coronavirus has during the peak of the virus
Reflect On: Was lockdown really the right thing to do? Why have so many doctors and scientists who’ve said that it’s not the right thing to do been completely censored and banned by social media platforms? What’s going on here?
A new report published in the British Medical Journal titled Covid-19: “Staggering number” of extra deaths in community is not explained by covid-19″ has suggested that quarantine measures in the United Kingdom as a result of the new coronavirus may have already killed more UK seniors than the coronavirus has during the months of April and May.
According to the data, Covid-19 only accounts for 10,000 of the 30,000 excess deaths that have been recorded in senior care facilities during the height of the pandemic. The article suggests and also quotes British Health officials stating that these unexplained deaths may have occurred because Quarantine measures have prevented seniors from accessing the health care that they need.
The report was written by Shaun Griffin, a PhD in DNA repair from UCL. He has worked in communications and public affairs roles for 20 years at Wellcome, UK Biobank, Human Tissue Authority and the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. He is currently at the Association of Medical Research Charities and is vice chair of a research ethics committee.
According to him,
David Spiegelhalter, chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication at the University of Cambridge, said that covid-19 did not explain the high number of deaths taking place in the community. At a briefing hosted by the Science Media Centre on 12 May he explained that, over the past five weeks, care homes and other community settings had had to deal with a “staggering burden” of 30 000 more deaths than would normally be expected, as patients were moved out of hospitals that were anticipating high demand for beds. Of those 30 000, only 10 000 have had covid-19 specified on the death certificate. While Spiegelhalter acknowledged that some of these “excess deaths” might be the result of underdiagnosis, “the huge number of unexplained extra deaths in homes and care homes is extraordinary. When we look back . . . this rise in non-covid extra deaths outside the hospital is something I hope will be given really severe attention.” He added that many of these deaths would be among people “who may well have lived longer if they had managed to get to hospital. David Leon, professor of epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, agreed. “Some of these deaths may not have occurred if people had got to hospital,” he said. “How many is unclear. This issue needs urgent attention, and steps taken to ensure that those who would benefit from hospital treatment and care for other conditions can get it.”
The report also mentions that in Scotland, in the first week after lockdown, a spike in deaths were recorded from all causes.
The Takeaway
At the end of the day, the coronavirus pandemic has clearly been a catalyst for more people to speak up against misinformation and measures being imposed on the human race that a lot of people disagree with. Information has surfaced calling into question the measures that have been taken so far, and information that comes from credible sources and has evidence to support is being labelled as “fake news.
For example, YouTube is removing any content that contradicts the world health organization, and some of the world’s leading scientists and epidemiologists on this topic have been completely censored. It just doesn’t make sense.
Read more at www.collective-evolution.com
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principiascientificinternational--2020-07-03--Mysterious radiation spike detected over Scandinavia

Radioactivity levels have spiked in the atmosphere over northern Europe , and that could indicate damage at a nuclear power plant in western Russia , according to a Dutch health agency that has analyzed the data .
The radioactive spike suggests damage to a nuclear fuel element , .
However , the Russian nuclear power operator Rosenergoatom has denied problems related to facilities in Kola and Leningrad , the two nuclear plants operating in the region , according to TASS , a Russian news agency , as reported by the AP .
Several Scandinavian watchdog agencies detected the elevated levels @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) .
Radionuclides are atoms whose nuclei are unstable ; the excess energy inside the nucleus gets released through radioactive decay .
In particular , concentrations of the radionuclides cesium-134 , and ruthenium-103 rose in parts of Finland , southern Scandinavia and the Arctic , Lassina Zerbo , the Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization , .
Though these pose no harm to humans , they are byproducts of nuclear fission , Zerbo wrote .
“ The radionuclides are artificial , that is to say they are man-made .
The composition @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a fuel element in a nuclear power plant , ” an official with the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment in the Netherlands , which analyzed the isotope data , said on Friday ( June 26 ) .
Because so few measurements have been taken , monitoring agencies weren ’ t able to identify a specific source , NIPHE officials said .
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Mysterious radiation spike detected over Scandinavia
Written by Tia Ghose
Radioactivity levels have spiked in the atmosphere over northern Europe, and that could indicate damage at a nuclear power plant in western Russia, according to a Dutch health agency that has analyzed the data. The radioactive spike suggests damage to a nuclear fuel element, the Associated Press reported .
However, the Russian nuclear power operator Rosenergoatom has denied problems related to facilities in Kola and Leningrad, the two nuclear plants operating in the region, according to TASS, a Russian news agency, as reported by the AP.
Several Scandinavian watchdog agencies detected the elevated levels of the radionuclides (or radioactive isotopes). Radionuclides are atoms whose nuclei are unstable; the excess energy inside the nucleus gets released through radioactive decay.
In particular, concentrations of the radionuclides cesium-134, cesium-137 and ruthenium-103 rose in parts of Finland, southern Scandinavia and the Arctic, Lassina Zerbo, the Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, wrote on Twitter . Though these pose no harm to humans, they are byproducts of nuclear fission, Zerbo wrote.
“The radionuclides are artificial, that is to say they are man-made. The composition of the nuclides may indicate damage to a fuel element in a nuclear power plant,” an official with the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment in the Netherlands, which analyzed the isotope data, said on Friday (June 26).
Because so few measurements have been taken, monitoring agencies weren’t able to identify a specific source, NIPHE officials said.
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principiascientificinternational--2020-07-03--Report: Tesla Battery Design Flaw Causes Breakdowns and Fires

Recently leaked emails from Elon Musk ’ s Tesla reveal that the company knew in 2012 of a battery design flaw in its Model S vehicles that could cause breakdown and even fires but sold the cars anyway .
Business Insider reports that recently leaked emails from 2012 reveal that Tesla was aware of a flaw in the design of the company ’ s Model S battery that could lead to breakdowns and fires but chose to sell the cars anyway .
This news comes as owners of the company ’ s new Model Y vehicle complain of manufacturing issues @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Recently the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration ( NHTSA ) initiated a probe into faulty Tesla Model S touch screens made from 2012-2015 , encompassing 63,000 vehicles .
The 2012 emails reveal that as Tesla began to ship its Model S vehicles , the company was still dealing with a major design flaw that could lead to leaks inside the battery .
The leaks could then cause the car ’ s battery to short or leave a flammable residue inside the battery , according to experts that spoke to Business Insider .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mechanism , a cooling coil or bandolier that wraps around the battery pushing coolant around to regulate temperature .
According to internal emails and three sources with knowledge on the matter , the end fitting of the cooling coils was made from weak aluminum and tiny pinholes often formed where the male and female parts of the end fitting were supposed to braze together .
The part in question was tested by third-party companies twice , cooling coils were sent to a test lab called IMR Test Labs in upstate New York in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ report from IMR , the end fittings on the cooling coils did not meet chemical requirements for a regulation strength aluminum alloy .
A source claims that these results were shared with Tesla which ignored them and continued to deliver the vehicles .
The company ’ s 2012 third-quarter earnings report shows that Tesla delivered more than 250 Model S cars .
Jason Schug , a Vice President at Ricardo Strategic Consulting , has done teardowns and examinations of Tesla ’ s Model S and X vehicles that share the same battery .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ into a battery module the battery could be rendered useless .
When we disassembled the Tesla Model X , a technician accidentally spilled coolant in the battery pack and it sat there for a long time .
There was no immediate danger , but when we removed the battery modules quite a while later we found a lot of corrosion on the battery cells and it was bad enough that some of the cells were leaking electrolyte .
If this were to happen in the field and go unnoticed , it could result @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at Business Insider here .
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Report: Tesla Battery Design Flaw Causes Breakdowns and Fires
Written by Lucas Nolan
Recently leaked emails from Elon Musk’s Tesla reveal that the company knew in 2012 of a battery design flaw in its Model S vehicles that could cause breakdown and even fires but sold the cars anyway.
Business Insider reports that recently leaked emails from 2012 reveal that Tesla was aware of a flaw in the design of the company’s Model S battery that could lead to breakdowns and fires but chose to sell the cars anyway.
This news comes as owners of the company’s new Model Y vehicle complain of manufacturing issues including loose seatbelts and back seats.
Recently the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) initiated a probe into faulty Tesla Model S touch screens made from 2012-2015, encompassing 63,000 vehicles.
The 2012 emails reveal that as Tesla began to ship its Model S vehicles, the company was still dealing with a major design flaw that could lead to leaks inside the battery. The leaks could then cause the car’s battery to short or leave a flammable residue inside the battery, according to experts that spoke to Business Insider.
The issue related to a poorly designed cooling mechanism, a cooling coil or bandolier that wraps around the battery pushing coolant around to regulate temperature. According to internal emails and three sources with knowledge on the matter, the end fitting of the cooling coils was made from weak aluminum and tiny pinholes often formed where the male and female parts of the end fitting were supposed to braze together.
The part in question was tested by third-party companies twice, cooling coils were sent to a test lab called IMR Test Labs in upstate New York in July of 2012. According to a report from IMR, the end fittings on the cooling coils did not meet chemical requirements for a regulation strength aluminum alloy. A source claims that these results were shared with Tesla which ignored them and continued to deliver the vehicles. The company’s 2012 third-quarter earnings report shows that Tesla delivered more than 250 Model S cars.
Jason Schug, a Vice President at Ricardo Strategic Consulting, has done teardowns and examinations of Tesla’s Model S and X vehicles that share the same battery. According to Schug, if coolant leaked into a battery module the battery could be rendered useless.
Schug told Business Insider:
When we disassembled the Tesla Model X, a technician accidentally spilled coolant in the battery pack and it sat there for a long time. There was no immediate danger, but when we removed the battery modules quite a while later we found a lot of corrosion on the battery cells and it was bad enough that some of the cells were leaking electrolyte. If this were to happen in the field and go unnoticed, it could result in bricking the battery.
Read more at Business Insider here.
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principiascientificinternational--2020-07-03--New Study: Trump-Touted COVID-19 Drug Hydroxychloroquine Works!

Written by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times The anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine lowers the death rate of COVID-19 patients , U.S. researchers have said .
Researchers conducted a retrospective analysis of over 2,500 patients hospitalized between March 10 and May 2 in the Henry Ford Health System in Michigan .
Over 2,000 of the patients were given hydroxychloroquine or the anti-malarial with azithromycin , an antibiotic .
The study found 13 percent of those who received hydroxychloroquine alone died compared to 26.4 percent who didn ’ t receive the drug .
Hydroxychloroquine alone decreased the mortality hazard ratio by 66 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ decreased the ratio by 71 percent , researchers said .
The vast majority of patients were given the drug within 48 hours of admission .
Patients who received hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin also had a lower mortality than people who received neither , as did patients who received azithromycin .
“ We attribute our findings that differ from other studies to early treatment , and part of a combination of interventions that were done in supportive care of patients , including careful cardiac monitoring , ” Zervos said .
None of the patients experienced @ @ @ @ @ @ @ patients who were monitored for a heart condition were recommended not to take the treatment .
The median age of patients was 64 .
The group was 51 percent male and 56 percent African-American .
The conclusions came from a peer-reviewed study that was published in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases .
Regardless of what treatment they received , mortality was highest in patients older than 65 , patients who identified as Caucasian , patients admitted with reduced oxygen levels , and patients who required care in intensive care units , researchers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with some caution , Zervos said , and require further confirmation in randomized controlled clinical trials .
Hydrxychloroquine should be used outside hospitals , he said .
A group of Canadian researchers said in a commentary published in the same journal that the results were fundamentally limited because the study was retrospective and questioned whether proper methods were used by the Henry Ford researchers .
The patients who did not receive any treatment , the critics wrote , may have been heading towards death , which would skew the numbers .
Hydroxychloroquine and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ scrutinized since President Donald Trump touted them earlier this year as potential treatments for COVID-19 , a disease caused by the CCP ( Chinese Communist Party ) virus .
The drugs were prescribed for both hospitalized and non-hospitalized patients across the United States after anecdotal accounts suggested some efficacy against COVID-19 .
Some clinical trials later found the anti-malarial was ineffective in certain dosages .
Several trials studying the drug were stopped last month .
The most circulated study , a retrospective that researchers claimed involved nearly 100,000 patients , was retracted in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they couldn ’ t verify the figures .
Other studies have suggested hydroxychloroquine is effective .
One showed it led to a higher rate of discharge from hospitals when combined with zinc and azithromycin .
Indian researchers said the anti-malarial is an effective prophylactic against the CCP virus .
The Food and Drug Administration ended the emergency use authorization for the the anti-malarials last month .
It is no longer reasonable to believe that hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine may be effective in treating COVID-19 , the agency ’ s chief scientist , Denise Hinton @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pointed to side effects , including irregular heart rhythms , the agency warned .
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons , which supports hydroxychloroquine and compiled a list of studies suggesting it is effective , said the authorization only applied to doses donated to the Strategic National Stockpile .
Because hydroxychloroquine was approved decades ago for use against malaria , it can be prescribed off-label by doctors for other ailments .
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New Study: Trump-Touted COVID-19 Drug Hydroxychloroquine Works!
Written by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times
The anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine lowers the death rate of COVID-19 patients, U.S. researchers have said.
Researchers conducted a retrospective analysis of over 2,500 patients hospitalized between March 10 and May 2 in the Henry Ford Health System in Michigan. Over 2,000 of the patients were given hydroxychloroquine or the anti-malarial with azithromycin, an antibiotic.
The study found 13 percent of those who received hydroxychloroquine alone died compared to 26.4 percent who didn’t receive the drug.
Hydroxychloroquine alone decreased the mortality hazard ratio by 66 percent and the anti-malarial with the antibiotic decreased the ratio by 71 percent, researchers said.
The vast majority of patients were given the drug within 48 hours of admission.
“Our analysis shows that using hydroxychloroquine helped saves lives,” neurosurgeon Dr. Steven Kalkanis, senior vice president and chief academic officer of the health system, said in a statement. “As doctors and scientists, we look to the data for insight. And the data here is clear that there was benefit to using the drug as a treatment for sick, hospitalized patients.”
Patients who received hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin also had a lower mortality than people who received neither, as did patients who received azithromycin.
“The findings have been highly analyzed and peer-reviewed,” added Dr. Marcus Zervos, division head of Infectious Disease for Henry Ford, who co-authored the study with epidemiologist Dr. Samia Arshad.
“We attribute our findings that differ from other studies to early treatment, and part of a combination of interventions that were done in supportive care of patients, including careful cardiac monitoring,” Zervos said.
“Our dosing also differed from other studies not showing a benefit of the drug. And other studies are either not peer reviewed, have limited numbers of patients, different patient populations or other differences from our patients.”
None of the patients experienced side effects, researchers said, although patients who were monitored for a heart condition were recommended not to take the treatment.
The median age of patients was 64. The group was 51 percent male and 56 percent African-American.
The conclusions came from a peer-reviewed study that was published in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases.
Regardless of what treatment they received, mortality was highest in patients older than 65, patients who identified as Caucasian, patients admitted with reduced oxygen levels, and patients who required care in intensive care units, researchers said.
The results should be interpreted with some caution, Zervos said, and require further confirmation in randomized controlled clinical trials. Hydrxychloroquine should be used outside hospitals, he said.
A group of Canadian researchers said in a commentary published in the same journal that the results were fundamentally limited because the study was retrospective and questioned whether proper methods were used by the Henry Ford researchers. The patients who did not receive any treatment, the critics wrote, may have been heading towards death, which would skew the numbers.
Hydroxychloroquine and the closely related chloroquine have been closely scrutinized since President Donald Trump touted them earlier this year as potential treatments for COVID-19, a disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus. The drugs were prescribed for both hospitalized and non-hospitalized patients across the United States after anecdotal accounts suggested some efficacy against COVID-19.
Some clinical trials later found the anti-malarial was ineffective in certain dosages. Several trials studying the drug were stopped last month.
The most circulated study, a retrospective that researchers claimed involved nearly 100,000 patients, was retracted in early June after three of them said they couldn’t verify the figures.
Other studies have suggested hydroxychloroquine is effective. One showed it led to a higher rate of discharge from hospitals when combined with zinc and azithromycin.
Indian researchers said the anti-malarial is an effective prophylactic against the CCP virus. The Food and Drug Administration ended the emergency use authorization for the the anti-malarials last month.
It is no longer reasonable to believe that hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine may be effective in treating COVID-19, the agency’s chief scientist, Denise Hinton, said. Some of the trials pointed to side effects, including irregular heart rhythms, the agency warned.
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, which supports hydroxychloroquine and compiled a list of studies suggesting it is effective, said the authorization only applied to doses donated to the Strategic National Stockpile. Because hydroxychloroquine was approved decades ago for use against malaria, it can be prescribed off-label by doctors for other ailments.
Read more at www.theepochtimes.com
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principiascientificinternational--2020-07-03--Jordan Peterson Explains His Year-long Mystery Disappearance

A shadow of his former self Jordan Peterson re-appears after a year out of the spotlight to speak frankly on camera with this daughter , Makhaila about his life or death battle with Benzodiazepine addiction .
In just a few short days this video has already amazed over one million views on Youtube .
It is fascinating interview – a sentient warning of Big Pharma ’ s psychopathic mission to turn us all into consumers of their mind-altering poisons .
Jordan Bernt Peterson is a Canadian clinical psychologist and a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto .
He @ @ @ @ @ @ @ late 2010s for his outspoken views on cultural and political issues .
Notable for his no-nonsense approach to the woke culture and regarded as an antidote to creeping societal normalization of Political Correctness , Peterson grew from a cult-like defender of traditional values into a global phenomenon .
Welcome to the Mikhaila Peterson Podcast , episode 9 .
This is a brief podcast with my dad Jordan Peterson about what happened to him and my family in the last year .
The following are links that may help elucidate some of the topics @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reaction to benzodiazepines – a condition dad was diagnosed with https : //www.acep.org/how-we-serve/sec… – Akathisia – something dad really really really suffered from – https : //w-bad.org/akathisia/ – “ Many medical professionals don ’ t recognize akathisia or that it ’ s a drug-induced state .
Instead , they write off the symptoms as a “ worsening of mental illness ” or other condition .
Sometimes they even raise the dose of the offending drug and when the patient ’ s condition worsens as a result , they may prescribe more medication which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that fail to offer relief .
If the medical professionals you encounter are ignorant about akathisia or attempt to blame it on “ something else ” , present them with medical information on the condition or search until you find a knowledgeable physician.
” – Catatonia and benzo withdrawal – https : //pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8835707/ – Suicidality and benzodiazepines – https : //www.psychiatrist.com/PCC/arti… – “ The majority of studies identified in this review report a positive correlation between prescribed benzodiazepines and attempted or completed suicide.
” https : //www.healio.com/news/psychiatr… – Dependence vs. Addiction – https @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and dementia risk – https : //www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti… – Benzo prescription rates : “ More than one in eight U.S. adults ( 12.6 percent ) used benzodiazepines in the past year ” https : //www.psychiatry.org/newsroom/n… – Examples of severe benzo withdrawal from prescribed benzos : https : //www.irishexaminer.com/breakin… http : //www.benzo-case-japan.com/my-st… https : //www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti… – A particularly heartbreaking experience http : //www.zakstein.org/for-meghan-te… – Celebrity deaths involving benzos : Anna Nicole Smith , Whitney Houston , – https : //www.thestar.com/life/health_w… Heath Ledger – https : //edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/… Michael Jackson – http : //www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article… Philip Seymour Hoffman @ @ @ @ @ @ @ https : //www.express.co.uk/news/uk/270… Tom Petty – https : //www.prnewswire.com/news-relea… – Benzos and early death : The study ’ s results state the statistically significant chances of early death double with the prescription of a benzodiazepine .
https : //www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.g… – Overdose risk of benzos with opioids : “ Yet over 30 percent of opioid-related overdoses also include benzodiazepines .
One study published this year showed that using benzos with opioids increases overdose risk five-fold compared with using opioids only.
” https : //www.upmc.com/media/news/opioi… https : //www.drugabuse.gov/drug-topics… – Warnings for benzodiazepine usage : “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shouldn ’ t take them for longer than two to four weeks .
If used long term , then it ’ s best only to take them two to three times a week.
” https : //www.cnbc.com/2018/08/02/antia… – The Ashton Protocol – how some people get off of benzos – not something Dad could tolerate given his paradoxical reaction and akathisia https : //benzo.org.uk/manual/ – Collecting duct carcinoma – the cancer mom miraculously recovered from – https : //www.currentoncology.com/index… – Sodium metabisulfite allergy symptoms – the original cause of the benzodiazepine prescription – @ @ @ @ @ @ @ benzos : https : //medicatingnormal.com/benzodia… https : //www.theinnercompass.org/learn… https : //www.benzobuddies.org PRINCIPIA SCIENTIFIC INTERNATIONAL , legally registered in the UK as a company incorporated for charitable purposes .
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Jordan Peterson Explains His Year-long Mystery Disappearance
Written by John O'Sullivan
A shadow of his former self Jordan Peterson re-appears after a year out of the spotlight to speak frankly on camera with this daughter, Makhaila about his life or death battle with Benzodiazepine addiction.
In just a few short days this video has already amazed over one million views on Youtube. It is fascinating interview – a sentient warning of Big Pharma’s psychopathic mission to turn us all into consumers of their mind-altering poisons.
Who is Peterson:
Jordan Bernt Peterson is a Canadian clinical psychologist and a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. He began to receive widespread attention in the late 2010s for his outspoken views on cultural and political issues.
Notable for his no-nonsense approach to the woke culture and regarded as an antidote to creeping societal normalization of Political Correctness, Peterson grew from a cult-like defender of traditional values into a global phenomenon.
Introducing the video, daughter Makhaila, writes:
Welcome to the Mikhaila Peterson Podcast, episode 9. This is a brief podcast with my dad Jordan Peterson about what happened to him and my family in the last year.
The following are links that may help elucidate some of the topics we discussed in this episode: Paradoxical reaction to benzodiazepines – a condition dad was diagnosed with https://www.acep.org/how-we-serve/sec… – Akathisia – something dad really really really suffered from – https://w-bad.org/akathisia/ – “Many medical professionals don’t recognize akathisia or that it’s a drug-induced state. Instead, they write off the symptoms as a “worsening of mental illness” or other condition. Sometimes they even raise the dose of the offending drug and when the patient’s condition worsens as a result, they may prescribe more medication which can sometimes further exacerbate the problem or that fail to offer relief. If the medical professionals you encounter are ignorant about akathisia or attempt to blame it on “something else”, present them with medical information on the condition or search until you find a knowledgeable physician.” – Catatonia and benzo withdrawal – https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8835707/ – Suicidality and benzodiazepines – https://www.psychiatrist.com/PCC/arti… – “The majority of studies identified in this review report a positive correlation between prescribed benzodiazepines and attempted or completed suicide.” https://www.healio.com/news/psychiatr… – Dependence vs. Addiction – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSdYl… – Benzodiazepine use and dementia risk – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti… – Benzo prescription rates: “More than one in eight U.S. adults (12.6 percent) used benzodiazepines in the past year” https://www.psychiatry.org/newsroom/n… – Examples of severe benzo withdrawal from prescribed benzos: https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakin… http://www.benzo-case-japan.com/my-st… https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti… – A particularly heartbreaking experience http://www.zakstein.org/for-meghan-te… – Celebrity deaths involving benzos: Anna Nicole Smith, Whitney Houston, – https://www.thestar.com/life/health_w… Heath Ledger – https://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/… Michael Jackson – http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article… Philip Seymour Hoffman – https://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobsul… Amy Winehouse – https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/270… Tom Petty – https://www.prnewswire.com/news-relea… – Benzos and early death: The study’s results state the statistically significant chances of early death double with the prescription of a benzodiazepine. https://www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.g… – Overdose risk of benzos with opioids: “Yet over 30 percent of opioid-related overdoses also include benzodiazepines. One study published this year showed that using benzos with opioids increases overdose risk five-fold compared with using opioids only.” https://www.upmc.com/media/news/opioi… https://www.drugabuse.gov/drug-topics… – Warnings for benzodiazepine usage: “If benzodiazepines are needed daily, people shouldn’t take them for longer than two to four weeks. If used long term, then it’s best only to take them two to three times a week.” https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/02/antia… – The Ashton Protocol – how some people get off of benzos – not something Dad could tolerate given his paradoxical reaction and akathisia https://benzo.org.uk/manual/ – Collecting duct carcinoma – the cancer mom miraculously recovered from – https://www.currentoncology.com/index… – Sodium metabisulfite allergy symptoms – the original cause of the benzodiazepine prescription – https://foodallergycanada.ca/food-all… – Other links about benzos: https://medicatingnormal.com/benzodia… https://www.theinnercompass.org/learn… https://www.benzobuddies.org
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