Medical Conspiracy Theory

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I don't believe in the medical conspiracy theories saying that we all are the victims of the big corporation selling us drugs and medications. As far as I remember I rarely have to pay anything when I go to the pharmacy.

But, it doesn’t mean it has no cost at all. It’s equivalent of having a lunch but not paying for it. Potatoes have to grow somewhere, nothing is free however people think it is and oftenly mistake science for the magicians.

The only who prospers on the human misery are the food factories. You gobble garbage, know all about it and you still do it. Why do you do it? You can’t help yourself or you actually expect to be saved by a miracle medication?

Medications we have today were impossible to have years before. Price you

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