I read a lot of scientific papers covering a broad variety of subjects. It's how I amuse myself, even though I am not a scientist. Some people play golf, I read scientific papers. I'm sure many of you on this list have noticed that papers on research payed for with your tax dollars are not available to the the public except through for-profit companies who will charge you an arm and a leg for them. The companies that do this are literally making billions doing this. Nice, huh?
I can often dodge the pay wall by searching for one of the authors who may have published a paper on the same subject somewhere else. Why should I or anyone else have to pay to read about research that I and other taxpayers have already bought? Given the state of the world today, I was reading a lot of papers on PubMed, the NIH website, where you could read literally thousands of papers covering medical research. Only about a week ago, I read one that was the most horrifying evidence of collusion between our benevolent government and Big Pharma. I was going to post the conclusion and summary of this research here for all of you to read and a link to the paper. Guess what? That paper has vanished and you can now only read abstracts of the papers on PubMed. You now must go the usual private company and pay to read research available for free only days ago. I unfortunately didn't save the link or the whole PDF because I thought I could find it again with a few key words as I had before. All gone. I will give you what I remember to the best of my ability the summary and conclusion of the research in question. It stated flatly through two double blind clinical trials that those suffering from HIV/AIDS could have their immune function restored by taking n-acetyl cysteine, an inexpensive and easily obtained supplement. The effect was raising the glutathione levels in the body. Glutathione is the master anti-oxidant in the human body. You could say that glutathione IS the immune system. What I'm saying is that this sort of information while formerly available to anyone looking for it and the ability to understand it, was not likely to attract attention, given the type of specialist study that it was. So, for lack of informing the general public of this research, HIV sufferers are paying nearly $120 per day for medication from Big Pharma versus a few cents per day for the n-acetyl cysteine. I don't know about you guys, but I would call that a crime.
