Throughout history, those who represent and benefit from the status quo have been notoriously ruthless in their opposition to new information- especially information that threatens the positions of the powerful. The most famous example is the persecution of Galileo, but history is replete with similar examples.
In 1633 physicist and astronomer Galileo was convicted of heresy by the Catholic Church for writing and discussing the idea that the Earth was not the center of the universe and that the Earth revolved around the Sun, instead of the long held belief that the Sun revolved around the Earth. His books were burned, he was forced to recant his beliefs and he was placed under house arrest for the rest of his life. It took the Catholic Church 300 years to admit Galileo was right and to clear his name.
Today, governments, big corporations, the medical establishment, academia, and subsidized science hold the positions that kings and bishops once did in their opposition to disruptive truths. In the information age, organizations like Facebook and Google serve as gatekeepers to new learning, much like the bishops who executed Socrates and persecuted Galileo.
The most recent and egregious example is Facebook’s banning advertisements for the upcoming Alzheimer’s and Dementia Summit.
Facebook spokespersons have said that posting educational videos aimed at helping people improve their health is not the type of business model they will tolerate. It makes sense since we know that pharmaceuticals have a dismal record of addiction and disease infliction and Facebook has no problem promoting those products.
So, Facebook, in their wisdom have unintentionally admitted that Big Pharma does not promote the health and well-being of the people who buy their products. Frankly, we couldn’t have said it better.
The Alzheimer’s and Dementia Summit is an event where 31 eminently qualified doctors and other healthcare professionals are slated to speak on topics including the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of dreaded diseases that adversely affect hundreds of thousands of aging Americans.
Organizers for the summit had their Facebook ad account disabled. After an appeals process, the account holders were told that they would not be considered for reactivation and that no further appeals would be heard. Facebook wrote back telling one organizer:
Hi, Alexandra,
We had another look at your ad account and unfortunately we won’t be able to re-enable it.
All ad accounts are evaluated for policy compliance and quality of ad content. When accounts run ads that don’t follow our Advertising Policies, they’re disabled.
There’s no further action you may take here. We don’t support ads for your business model.
Please consider this decision final.
How was your appeals experience? Give us your feedback to help us do better.
Thanks!
Hazel
If you’ve ever dealt with large businesses before, you will recognize this as a form letter. It was probably generated by a computer in response to some Facebook lever puller’s bureaucratic decision-making process.
The owner of the deactivated account was smart enough to make a screen grab image of the appeals rejection notice. This had provided proof that a legitimate health education organization is being denied a platform for promoting materials that threaten some big time pill manufacturers.
It’s hard to imagine that an event hosting a huge list of speakers with PhDs and other medical acronyms after their names could be shut down as if they were promoting witchcraft. Come to think of it, it’s pretty hard to imagine an ad selling witchcraft paraphernalia being banned from Facebook.
What is so threatening about an Alzheimer’s and Dementia Summit? Could it be the fact that statin drugs are causing early onset dementia and Alzheimer’s in a startling number of people? Could it be that drugs meant to treat these conditions are actually causing and exacerbating them? Could it be that there are natural remedies and preventative measures which could make drugs sold as treatments for Alzheimer’s and dementia totally irrelevant?
Naturally, we think so. The first thing that came to mind when we stumbled onto this story was the now well-known side effects of statin drugs. Meant to treat high blood pressure and cholesterol, statins deplete the body, and especially the brain, of healthy fats necessary for the proper function of the brain.
Cholesterol is part of the body’s way of protecting arteries from abrasive substances like table salt. And the fatty material, so critical for neurons to work properly, helps conduct electrical signals in the brain. Without these fats, weakened arteries can bleed internally and neurons lose their ability to transmit strong electrical signals to their fellow neurons.
Patients who take statin drugs suffer Alzheimer’s and dementia at alarmingly elevated rates. And heart patients who take these drugs are at risk of internal bleeding.
Hundreds of thousands of people might have been helped by obtaining information about the Alzheimer’s and Dementia Summit. There’s no way of measuring the damage Facebook’s actions may have caused- or what their real motivation might be. Even if this deactivation was an accident- it could be a true act of criminal negligence.
At the very least it’s a warning sign of things to come for alternative medicine believers—big tech will shut you up if you try to tell the truth.
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