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But people have eaten green moldy bread for hundreds of years as they knew it had curative properties. Some people treated themselves and had a good grasp of the basics, some of the pharma stuff is good, but jammed in it is a load of stuff that rides on the back of the good stuff.
penicillin is obtained by cultivating Penicillin fungi on nutrient substrates of varying composition. In this way are obtained: benzylpenicillin, procaine benzylpenicillin, propicillin, phenoxymethylpenicillin...
originally posted by: chris_stibrany
a reply to: mysterioustranger
Respect and personal choice all the way.
originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: zosimov
If it's hell you are after picture a world without pharmaceuticals.
Where there are no painkillers, insulin, antibiotics, blood thinners, immunosuppressants or vaccines.
No major operations, organ transplants or blood transfusions.
Big pharma does indeed have a lot to answer for.
But a world without access to the products and drugs they manufacture en-mass would indeed be hell on Earth for rather a lot of our respective populations.
originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: zosimov
What im saying is perfectly clear zosimov.
That being modern-day pharmaceuticals are a necessary evil.
Hence companies like Pfizer are going to exist.
You do realise Pfizer produces more than just the mRNA vaccine?
Im saying living in a world without access to the likes of antibiotics would indeed be hell on Earth.
Alexander Fleming discovered what constitutes antibiotics aka "penicillin" back in 1929.
There is no argument, as the world would be a far worse place to exist without modern-day medicine and pharmaceutical products, and only very stupid people think otherwise.