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Friday, 28 August 2026

Numercide: When doctors use numbers to prescribe medicines to healthy people

 Blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol and BMI numbers are used by doctors to prescribe a treatment to avoid the risk of future health problems.

The problem is, these numbers are not evidence-based. They are “expert” recommended targets. And Big Pharma’s interests are more than well-represented in the experts’ recommendations.

Below, Alan Cassels describes these four “health” targets as the “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, four ways to medicalise you, four ways to apply a disease-mongered label to you, and four avenues for you to start living under a dark cloud.”...<<<Read More>>>.....