There’s a common conspiracy theory that simple remedies don’t get promoted because Big Pharma doesn’t make any money off that stuff. E.g., if somebody discovered that tea made with oak leaves cured cancer, the idea would be suppressed to save Pharma profits. <\/p>\n
I don’t go for that sort of view of the world. We have a free press, and if there was such evidence, they’d publish it. <\/p>\n
Or … would they? <\/p>\n
Recently it seems that the press, the government and Big Pharma have all been singing from the same hymnal. I’m not willing to accept the conspiracy theory view of things, but … I’m getting closer all the time. When only one view is allowed to be spoken, it makes it harder to believe that view. <\/p>\n
Here’s a test case. <\/p>\n
A potential herbal remedy for coronavirus? Massachusetts researcher studies plant\u2019s impact on virus<\/a> <\/p>\n I have no idea if this stuff works, but let’s see how it plays out. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There’s a common conspiracy theory that simple remedies don’t get promoted because Big Pharma doesn’t make any money off that stuff. E.g., if somebody discovered that tea made with oak leaves cured cancer, the idea would be suppressed to save Pharma profits. I don’t go for that sort of view of the world. We have … Continue reading “How about something cheap that’s been used for thousands of years?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1265,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions\/1265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}