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       Re: Medical Decolonization
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: April 6, 2024, 1:38 am
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       "This too would include some modern pharmaceuticals"
       Not for long if we discontinue manufacturing them, which is what
       I am advocating.
       "Would we too ditch the rocks that were used by cavemen to
       barbarically crush open the skulls of animals for hunting
       purposes?"
       Rocks are matter. SSRIs are designs. For example:
       [img width=1280
       height=662]
  HTML https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Fluoxetine.svg/1920px-Fluoxetine.svg.png[/img]
       What I want to get rid of is not the particular atoms that have
       been used to make fluoxetine, but the design pictured above
       (irrespective of which atoms of the ingredient elements are used
       to produce physical copies of it), which did not exist in the
       world prior until recently, and which would never have existed
       in absence of Western civilization.
       See also:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/academic-decolonization/msg16015/#msg16015
       "how would you propose to distinguish between explicitly western
       medicine/western-inspired one and non-western one?"
       Western:
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmaceutical_industry#History
       [quote]German dye manufacturers had perfected the purification
       of individual organic compounds from tar and other mineral
       sources and had also established rudimentary methods in organic
       chemical synthesis.[5] The development of synthetic chemical
       methods allowed scientists to systematically vary the structure
       of chemical substances[/quote]
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_synthesis
       [quote]Organic synthesis is an important chemical process that
       is integral to many scientific fields. Examples of fields beyond
       chemistry that require organic synthesis include the medical
       industry, pharmaceutical industry, and many more. Organic
       processes allow for the industrial-scale creation of
       pharmaceutical products.[/quote]
       "how would you judge the NS german medical industry"
       "That a fatty substance extracted from coal has the same value
       as olive-oil, that l don't believe at all !" - Adolf Hitler
       This anti-organic-synthesis quote could have been a starting
       point for de-Westernizing medicine had National Socialist
       Germany won WWII.
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