• village604
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    2 months ago

    The ones pharmaceutical reps give.

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      2 months ago

      Research scientists aren’t bribed by pharmaceutical companies. That’s not a thing.

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        2 months ago

        I’m sorry, I didn’t realize you had access to the financials of every research scientist in the US.

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          OK so let me get this straight: You believe that the overwhelming majority of scientists with intimate knowledge of mRNA vaccine technology are ALL part of a conspiracy that involves them all accepting bribes from big pharma in order to lie about its safety?

          That’s really just not how any of it works.

          Even if it did exist in any capacity, there’s no possible way that it would be able to be kept secret with so many people involved, not to mention the fact that there are still scientists with integrity (I would say most of them, in actuality) who would blow the whistle immediately.

          I think you need to take a step back and try to take a critical look at the reasons why you would believe such a thing, and how you came to that conclusion. Because it has zero basis in reality, and the results of this kind of thinking literally leads to people (primarily children) dying or being otherwise impaired for life, for absolutely no reason.

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            2 months ago

            I never said any of that. You might want to work on your reading comprehension.

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              They’re the most obvious implications for your bribery claims. If you had ever thought critically about what you believe, this would be immediately apparent.

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                All I said was pharmaceutical companies bribe doctors and scientists. That’s it, besides saying it’s not a valid reason to distrust vaccines.

                Anything else you gleaned from that comment is you making assumptions based on nothing.

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                  2 months ago

                  I’d say it’s based on intimate knowledge of a field you obviously don’t know much about. It’s not our fault you’re an ignorant idiot, so please consider keeping your stupidity to yourself.

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                    2 months ago

                    So you’re seriously claiming that no research scientist in the US has ever accepted a bribe from a pharmaceutical company?

                    Talk about stupidity.

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      I’ve got questions. So many questions.

      Edit: unsurprisingly, they had no answers.

      Do all scientists get universal bribe income (UBI) to hush up? Do they get bonus bribes when it’s their turn to fabricate results? Holy shit, is this inadvertently the world’s biggest UBI experiment? Who is being bribed not to release that data?

      How do these bribes work? Do they specifically bribe researchers and all members of their peer review committees? Do they bribe lab assistants to ignore reported findings incongruent with their observed lab results?

      How do these pharmaceutical reps keep other scientists from alerting the public after analyzing this fraudulent data or replicating similarly fraudulent experiments?

      There are over nine million full-time researchers employed in science R&D worldwide. Even with what must be at least a trillion dollars in annual bribes, someone’s bound to get a little drunk and say too much. Why don’t any of them or the tens of millions of support staff blow the whistle on the whole deal?