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#130: Coerced Consensus (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

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Why Is Vizor Tested a Drug?

Forma and everything connected to it realized that it had a mechanism for making drugs that weren't especially safe look very safe. If you give a poisonous drug to a mouse that's going to die of cancer, but has an infinite capacity for repair, if the poison isn't so poisonous that it kills the mouse out right, it may actually make them live longer. Since cancer sells are in the process of always dividing, they are more vulnerable than regular sells. And so that is a result i've seen several times, where a drug paradoxically makes the animals live longer. The mice adapted to an economic nitch, which has very real biological consequences.

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