crazy4lsu

Okay, first, I do not truly trust your source, as I would rather have seen a link to the actual documents themselves. Secondly, some of the things are just not contextualized. You need to start using sources that tell a bigger picture. For example, LINK

Here is the AAP's tax documents from ProPublica.

Looking at their most recent audit documents, it appears most of the revenue from the AAP comes from membership dues, subscriptions and continuing education.

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The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) runs on ~$138 MILLION a year.

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Is this supposed to be a scandalous statement?

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AAP's 2023 childhood obesity guidelines urged doctors to consider weight-loss drugs for kids. 10 of the authors had taken money from those drug companies.

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Okay. But is there a crisis in childhood obesity? There absolutely is. I've seen kids as young as 8 getting bariatric surgeries because the family absolutely cannot control their weight. The crisis is arguably already at hand, where around 1 in 5 American children are overweight. We are not suddenly going to fix this without several measures, but because we are mostly a feckless and stupid society, the path of least resistance will be weight-loss medications. That isn't the right answer in the long term in my view, but it is the one that will be chosen over and over, because physicians cannot ensure people do the right thing even if we tell them to do it.

Again, I am unsure what the point here is. That organizations, and individual members, take money from several private entities? You realize that is the entire structure of American Big Science, and the Trump admin wants to funnel more money to those private entities. Lobbying is perfectly legal, and in addition, members can lobby the organizations for which they are members.

Regardless, next time you post at me, please have a more cogent point.

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And put a target on their back? No.

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But don't the people who have the power to actually do something to them already know who they are, or how else was their research buried? And these supposed researchers were buried by some apparatus that was referenced but not named, and they just went along with it? If someone tried to bury my own research, that would not be my reaction, but again, maybe these people are incredible cowards in addition to being liars too.

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Amazing... some folks (those who refuse to believe you) have their asses so far up their asses they can't see clearly. IMHO

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In my honest opinion, anyone who says they found a cure for cancer is lying to you because cancer is not a single disease, but a collection of several diseases that affect different cell types and different organ systems. What they share in common is uncontrolled cell growth but there are a variety of ways in which the pathological mechanisms work. There are several cancers for which we already have curative treatments and almost non-existent remission rates. Why those victories aren't celebrated is beyond me. Instead I have to take some dude who claims that the cure is in human urine, and nothing he says actually stands up to any rigor, and he charges for more for that supposed 'treatment' than many older chemotherapy drugs which are still first-line agents.

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Many do. This database was last updated in October 2019 but you can put your doctors name in and it lists all payments for travel/entertainment/etc

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Firstly, these are not kickbacks. This is data which includes things like accepting lunches for the office from pharmaceutical reps and speaking at conferences. By definition, a kickback...wouldn't be reported publicly. That defeats the entire purpose of a kickback.

Secondly, this is information that is still available on the Open Payments site. It is good to know that the reps from don't seem to pay more than 20 dollars for any of the shitty food they provide us. At least my reps don't.

I'm a doctor. I am not getting kickbacks to prescribe anything doofus.

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I'm more looking at it from some combination of regional identity, historical identity, and somewhat ethnically.

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In the Catalonian case, they are distinct by all those metrics, as well as by language.

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If a part of Mongolia suddenly voted to join China I wouldn't suddenly view those people there as Chinese even if they were Chinese citizens.

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But China is, again, a national identity. You can already be Mongolian and Chinese. In fact, there is a Mongolian autonomous region of China, called Inner Mongolia, just as there is an autonomous region of Catalonia in Spain. You aren't being consistent here and are treating national identities as though they are not descriptions of both convenience as well as for organization. And for what it is worth, during the Warring States period, Inner Mongolia was among the regions in which the seven states competed, and parts of it were included in the unified Chinese empire during the Qin, meaning that the influence of Chinese polities in the region called Mongolia predates the founding of the County of Barcelona by nearly a millennia.

If that historical association is not enough to call people who are reside there 'Chinese,' I have no idea what possible historical associations you can use to include one autonomous region over another.

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Why this POS is still breathing is a mystery. You know we and Israel know where he is at all times yet we keep allowing him to go back and forth between Iraq and Iran.

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The Iranian relationship with their extra-territorial militias is not leader dependent.

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The West will get sick of it first.

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Based on what? The defense economics of the next ten years suggest something, and it isn't this, which is unfortunate for all of us.

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Maps are the only way to understand this conflict.

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Maps are not the only way to understand this conflict. What in the world are you talking about?

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I think maybe you don't like them because of the reality they convey.

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All they reveal is Russian progress which is occurring at a snail's pace despite Russia's many supposed advantages.

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Joe Kent was saying the goal of "capturing dust" is almost intended to be a whack-a-mole situation to justify constant intervention.

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It's also a scenario where Iran is incentivized to overstate its capabilities in order to force the US and Israel to act. They can perpetually dangle the nuclear carrot too as something they could potentially give up in exchange for something they want immediately. The entire game has been about leverage and that is the focal point of Iranian foreign policy, which is to do something in order to gain leverage on rivals for some end and then give it up. They've done it repeatedly, and when that leverage tries to wriggle itself out of the power dynamic, as Assad tried to in Syria, the Iranians are fine with giving it up.

The US has the advantage in the 'big' things, technology, money, weapons, but US foreign policy isn't oriented around investing time, money and energy into something with the purpose of giving it up at a later point. After all this, Iran will continue to operate this way, and I think it is a central dynamic to how the Shia in particular execute their foreign policy. It isn't all that much different from how criminal organizations work, and I expect that anything that is in US interest will continue to be leveraged the same way.

No one remembers this but Iran before COVID was attempting to make in-roads with the South American drug trade, effectively doing the Iran-Contra scandal but without the US as middlemen. Given US security interests and de-coupling from China also involve controlling the cartels in Central and South America and also controlling mineral rights, I do think that the Iranians will absolutely try to expend some efforts continuing cultivating those links. Here is an article about Hezbollah in Latin America from the Rand Institute, LINK

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Their military has been set back decades.

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Their regional power was never based on their conventional military.