The NAxALT Fallacy (Not All [x] Are Like That) is the idea that because you can point to an exception to a generalization, it fails. Some people think that finding a specific counter-example of some item (the “x”), that the general statement about that group is not only not a useful generalization, it is likely totally invalid and  baseless, erroneous, biased, counterproductive, and maybe even racist, bigoted, and saying it is a potential hate-crime. It’s often used, either with good intent or ill, to derail or side-track an argument rather than try to understand the core issue. This is especially true of personally uncomfortable topics. Yes, yes, we KNOW that we are making a generalization, and there are exceptions. Yes, sure, of course there are marginal and messy cases. That doesn’t invalidate the general statement as a useful heuristic to understanding what’s going in in the world.

Yes, we KNOW not all politicians lie about everything, we KNOW not all Boomers are horrible parents and narcissists, we KNOW that not everyone who got the Covid mRNA jab will die of cancer or Suddenly, we KNOW not all blacks are low IQ and violent, or all Jews are evil land-grabbing bankers or lawyers, all Chinese students are communist spies, etc., etc., etc. Yeah, or course these are broad strokes and there are exceptions. We get it. [insert Louis CK “of course, but maybe” comedy bit here]. That doesn’t mean a generalization isn’t a useful heuristic to use at times in life. Just ask Iryna Zarutska… oh, you can’t. Sorry, my bad.

So, the statement “Big Pharma and the medical professions cartel wants you chronically sick and medical-industry dependent, because there is no money in dead people, and there is no money in healthy people,” while not literally and universally true, is a useful heuristic to explain a lot of what we see going on in the world WRT “healthcare.” Obviously, this is not talking about a majority of the rank-and-file worker-bee medical professionals at the ER rooms and regular Doc appointment MDs and nurses and paper-pushers, and the smaller bit-players who are always around the edges of things, like the faith-based not-for-profit that serves the congregation (though the CEOs of those are sometimes making serious personal profits), the large corporate “self-insurance” orgs, etc. It’s a generalization about the decision-makers at the top of the large players who dominate and direct the industry and “assist” the policy-makers in drafting legislation that affects the industry. Most of the front-line medical workers are pretty average, decent people earning a wage and doing their job according to the guidelines their employers spell out for them and the law requires of them.

The actions of front-line healthcare workers are often heavily constrained by bureaucracy / Pharma  driven “standards of care” that they must follow if they want to be legally covered. At the same time, insurance payments and treatments are often driven by how it’s coded, and hey, look who has a huge influence on what the codes are? Pharma. Notice there are no standard medical billing codes for vaccine-caused injury or death. Hmmm… wonder why? There used to be. You want to know why there are so few records of people being injured or killed by vaccines? They can’t get paid for it if they can’t code it for the insurance company. If you stick a needle in a healthy person to vaccinate them, and five minutes later they are convulsing on the floor, and ten minutes later they are dead, the medical coding for it might be some flavor of “fatal heart attack,” not “death by vaccine injection.” It can’t be the latter, because it’s been removed, even though we have many videos of exactly that happening. Very convenient to muddy to data-collection and statistical analysis.

One aspect is worse than mere “regulatory capture.” It’s succinctly summed up as “epistemological capture,” nicely summarized in this post. The lede is Every step in the knowledge production process in science and medicine is captured by the pharmaceutical industry and detailed list reproduced below. (Some of the comments at the post are pretty good, too.)

Every now an then a crack shows through, like a whistle-blower coming to light briefly before being memory-holed. There is a reason that Big Pharma has become the #1 advertiser across all major legacy media outlets, and nearly all platforms. Why didn’t the journalists investigate? They don’t bite the hand that feeds them. Studies are done, and if they have the “right” result they are published, if not they are memory-holed. If a promising generic drug promises an inexpensive and effective treatment, a deeply flawed study will be done and pushed showing it has no benefit. Pharma is a HUGE donor to political campaigns, both sides, to ensure this pattern continues.

This should not be a surprise. If you read books like “Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and The Forgotten History,” or “Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health,” or “What the Nurses Saw: An Investigation Into Systemic Medical Murders That Took Place in Hospitals During the COVID Panic and the Nurses Who Fought Back,” or “Rockefeller medicine men : medicine and capitalism in America,” or look into the history of “alternative” medicines and nutrition (Allopathic  or “moderns western medicine” vs  Osteopathic, Naturopathic, “alternative” and “eastern” medicine, along with goy-slop diet vs carnivore/ Adkins/ GAPS / etc.), then the idea of regulatory capture to maximize profits (wealth extraction via “treatment) is nothing new. Why were the cures found for things like sepsis, cancer, polio, and MS (among others) by Dr. Frederick Klenner sidelined and ignored over a half-century ago? Maybe it was because there is no profit in high-dose IV vitamin C. Why was UV treatment of the blood for a wide variety of aliments sidelined in the west, but still used in Russia and elsewhere? (UV also here) It’s cheap, has no side effects, and if it fails you can still use other options…. Oh, yeah, it’s cheap and no ongoing pharmaceuticals or side effects to treat, so… no profits.

If our health were the primary concern of the medical industry then we’d be far healthier now than we were a half-century ago, but we are not. We’d not be obese and chronically sick. But when you realize that “healthcare” has grown from about 3.5% of GDP in 1945 to about 1/6th of our entire economy, something isn’t right.

1945: ~3.5%
1960: ~5.7%
1970: 6.2%
1980: 9.2%
1990: 12.8%
2000: 13.3%
2010: 17.3%
2020: 18.6% (peak during pandemic, lost of extras and “special” things)
2022: 16.5%
2023: 16.7%

Health care insurance company profits are capped as a percentage of revenue. Pharma has no such caps, but DOES have a fiduciary duty to maximize profits; doing a good double-blind study that proves a generic (or placebo) performs better than their patent product could/will get them sued. So they don’t publish any study that puts them in a bad light. Government “watchdogs” are largely staffed by people from or cozy with Pharma. What combination of evil, greed, power-seeking, willful blindness, and true-believer it is I can only guess.

On top of that, the only thing better than a customer for an expensive drug is a repeat customer. So, treatments are vastly to be preferred over cures. If a 3- or 5-day fast could  reset the insulin system and improve insulin sensitivity or even cure diabetes as some have reported, they’d never let anyone read that report if they did a good study and it was true, because they’d lose life-long customers. Transgenderism was touted as a growth industry and increasing profit-center in the last few years because it is expensive, covered by insurance, and creates life-long customers; meanwhile, any sort of therapy to make people comfortable in their own skins (religious, regular psychiatrist/psychotherapist, or alternative) has been either discouraged or outlawed (depending on location), while schools have been promoting asking highly suggestable elementary-age kids about it away from their parents; once they say “maybe I am” the move to medicalize it is swift. Are some legit? Yeah, maybe. Some people would have gay before they were molested, too, but that doesn’t mean we should try to stop molestation from happening. The Last Closet is a good book on that rabbit-hole, especially if you are a S/F & Fantasy book fan.

Vaccines are VERY CLEARLY linked to a rise in a wide variety of chronic diseases, and yet not a single vaccine on the current US childhood schedule has ever been tested against an unvaccinated control group (one with a proper placebo, including not getting all the adjuvants and solvents and other stuff in the jabs). OTOH, some high quality studies were done, and promptly buried rather than published. Here and here and SIDS1 and SIDS2…

If medical schools wanted wanted a healthy general population, why don’t they require more basic nutrition classes? Why don’t they support a better basic research program on foods and food additives, rather than calling so many thing GRAS (Generally Regarded As Safe), even things like dyes, HFCS, trans-fats, GMOs or trace pesticides and herbicides that appear to make some people think they are gluten-intolerant, even though they can eat bread or pasta in Europe? Huh… All the missing data is in the same direction….

Meanwhile credible alternative treatments for cancer have long been derided or sidelined. but as the ideas spread and evidence becomes more significant, they still slow-walk things. Over 1,100 Studies Reveal 12 Natural Compounds With Potent Anti-Cancer Effects Across All Major Tumor Pathways. But the ideas, they spread. Meanwhile, the recognition of things like the Tippens Protocol (and here)are spreading. As Dr. Campbell wryly says, “the plural of anecdotes is hypothesis,” when he’s discussing a published paper discussing successful treatment of stage 4 cancer. Other famous alternatives, things like DMSO for eyes and other things gets dismissed (because why?), and Suramin for autism is only recently, finally, starting to get some love and research, but considering the surge in numbers it’s long past due (though really, changing the vaccine sched by delaying it two years like the Japanese would be a better choice).Funny how all these out-of-patent and inexpensive things are ignored by mainstream medical industry.

Meanwhile, the conventional medical community is studiously ignoring the devastation caused by the mRNA covid vaccine. See all my plague pages on this site, or many of the Dr. Campbell, Dr. Ryan Cole, Ed Dowd’s research, Dr. Peter McCullough’s many presentations,  Dr. Malone and Dr. Yeadon’s talks, these congressional testimonies (‘Vaccinated people more prone to chronic illness’: Shocking COVID vaccine claim at RFK Jr hearing, and ‘Blood clots surge like never before…’: Dr McCullough’s chilling revelations on mRNA COVID vaccines), etc., etc., etc. Millions dead world-wide, at LEAST a half-mil dead here in the US (with millions more added to the disabled list), but nothing but official silence.  Meanwhile, things like this keep popping up on my radar: New Analysis Shows Wuhan ‘Spike Protein’ Aligns With Over a Decade of NIH-Funded Chimeric Coronavirus Research—Including a 2018 Modular Spike Patent. Hmmmmmm. It’s not like the non-vax treatment for Covid was much better in the UK with midazolam and the rest of it. (study here). The fact that it was clearly man-made (with concurrent and ongoing cover-up) and multiple companies had brand-new-tech “vaccines” of a type never approved before within months should also cause blaring alarms.

As the title says, NAxALT. No, not everyone who got vaxxed is going to die of Suddenly(tm); about 30% of the shots have super-low rates of side effects, and are likely control-group placebos that the people receiving them were not told about. Meanwhile, all the reported fatalities come from less than 5% of the batches, with some batches having more than 100 fatalities. That argues for either total crap QC, or else they are illegally changing the  approved formulation. The initial test group had 1223 fatalities, but they were “dropped from the trial,” not “reported as healthy before the shot and died unexpectedly within 3 months afterword.” That SHOULD be setting off enough red flags in the mainstream medical community to throw a Mayday parade in China, but…. nothing. That the medical community remains largely silent (and vaxxed) should be setting off alarm bells to everyone else. Are there good people in the medical community? Yes, lots of them…. but not nearly as many in the upper decision-making capacity.

So…. If I’m in a car wreck, and I need trauma-care, western medicine is the best there is, and I’m glad we have it and insurance to pay for it. But for long-term cost-effectiveness and promoting general health? It sucks pond water. The few good people at the top in Pharma / Health insurance can’t fix it any more than any of the dozen good people in congress can fix DC.

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Epistemic capture. summarized here:
“Every step in the knowledge production process in science and medicine is captured by the pharmaceutical industry.

• Medical school textbooks are often written by academics with a financial conflict of interest.

• Medical school curriculum is dictated from above, professors are not free to teach whatever they want like in other departments in a university.

• The top 2/3rds of universities own stock in pharmaceutical companies

• 2/3rds of medical school department chairs have a financial conflict of interest

• 2/3rds of medical school researchers have financial conflicts of interest.

• Big Pharma is smart, they don’t buy off everyone, they just buy off the best universities and the leaders in the department and then everyone else falls into line.

• Most clinical trials are conducted by for-profit Contract Research Organizations in China and the third world.

• A large percentage (perhaps as much as 40%) of medical journal articles are ghost written by the pharmaceutical industry.

• The CDC, FDA, NIH, and EPA all have side “foundations” that enable them to take corporate contributions.

• Federal officials are allowed to own stock in the companies that they regulate.

• The pharmaceutical industry spends $27 billion dollars per year on drug promotions to influence the prescribing practices of doctors.

• “Standards of care” are usually written by doctors with financial conflicts of interest.

• Continuing medical education is sponsored by Big Pharma.

• The regulatory body that accredits private health insurance companies is stacked with industry representatives.

From the first day of medical school to the final years of practice, doctors live inside an epistemic bubble carefully engineered by the pharmaceutical industry. What I’m describing here is bigger than “conflict of interest” — it’s systemic capture of the entire knowledge-production process.

Philosophers of science call this Epistemic Capture which is when industry controls the conditions of knowledge production — what gets researched, how, and what counts as evidence. The problem is not one bad regulator or one compromised agency. The entire system of knowledge production in science and medicine needs to be overhauled to liberate it from the biases and distortions imposed by the pharmaceutical industry.”