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moonscape

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5. Well, I sit somewhere in between. Mother Nature provides
Sun Sep 25, 2016, 01:46 PM
Sep 2016

a panoply of things, many of which are deadly to humans, so I don't assess things based on if they're natural or not. What is criminal, is that in a wealthy country, we don't fund more research on natural products. But then, we get into political issues on the role of government and how funds are allocated.

For my cancer, I had many questions that couldn't be answered because the research needed is not in the interest of Big Pharma, regardless of how many lives it could save. Understandable, they are profit-driven, but again political issue. I don't believe health care should be in the profit sector, but it is, and these are some of the sad results.

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