To the editor,
As one who has thus far taken three injections, I essentially believe the mainstream COVID vaccine science. However, I’m nonetheless cautious of inadvertently buying into what I consider to be speculative science.
Due to increasingly common privatized research for corporate profit aims, even “scientific fact,” to a concerning degree, is for sale. Research results, however flawed, can and are known to be publicly amplified if they favor the corporate product, and accurate research results can be suppressed or ignored if they are unfavorable to business interests, even when involving human health.
Also, Health Canada was established to act in Canadian consumers’ best interests, yet it’s susceptible to corporate lobbyist manipulation. For one thing, it allowed novelty-flavored vaping products to be fully marketed — even on corner stores’ candy counters — without conclusive independent scientific proof that the product, as claimed by the tobacco industry, would not seriously harm consumers but rather help nicotine addicts wean themselves off of the more carcinogenic cigarette means of nicotine deliverance.
A few years before that, Health Canada had sat on its own research results that indicated seatbelts would save lives and reduce injury. It wanted even more proof of safety through seatbelts before ordering big bus manufacturers to install them in every bus. To me, those examples smell of science-be-damned lobbyist manipulation — something that should not prevail in a government body established primarily, if not solely, to protect consumers’ safety and health, rather than big businesses’ monetary concerns.
Frank Sterle Jr.
White Rock, B.C.
newsroom@surgeryitaly.com
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