wait the report stated that anti microbial resistance is a global crisis that threatens a century of progress and health and that unless the world acts are urgently anti-microbial resistance will have a disastrous impact within the generation and when they say within the generation my friends they are not playing around the report estimates that if we as in all of us humankind everybody do not make radical changes and focus on fighting this threat these drug resistant diseases could kill roughly ten million people a year by two thousand and fifty a year. that's only thirty thirty one years from now and just like mom jeans in the dynasty reboot what was once old has now come back to haunt us again because it seems that what's true in pop culture is true in superbugs as well tuberculosis yes tuberculosis inbox holiday red dead redemption that tuberculosis has now hatched

a strain that is drug resistant nicknamed ebola with wings given that tb can spread through the air by the simplest of coughs the permanent affected person it's estimated that in just the year two thousand and seventeen the drug resistant tb killed roughly two hundred thirty thousand people. much like climate change this isn't a threat to our present earth this isn't a threat to our present a future that can be ignored while we hyper focus on things like russia gate or building a great wall along our southern border these are real threats that we can no longer ignore pretend don't exist or play the blame game over. you see it's it's time to put aside the petty political garbage and strive to be the brilliant that we can be when we work together to stop this threat let's start watching the hawks.

get the. real thing this would. be like you that i got. with. this. because i. was in the car so i am to roll over and i'm to have a flawless and i last check down have tb and thankfully. this is real this reporter's business truly sobering when you look at the numbers and you see how many people are dying from these you know antibiotic resistant. diseases and viruses and now tb making a comeback like that for all those who don't really know tb like they're so that's what they'll kill me and tombstone. it's not i like consumption yeah a lot of artistically i'd say when you raise their right characters like oh she's

amazing she died of consumption that's what it is because your lungs are filled with fluid and you're consumed by it and then you die it's terrible i think one of the big events we've been told for a long time that this like shoving ourselves full of these pits super more powerful than about this is much like painkillers. they just the company just kept coming out with stronger and stronger and stronger and stronger antibiotics that's not good no no and you're exactly right this comes from our overuse of antibiotics and like everything everything that about a member is good everywhere you go and about how to buy out of this. the u.n. report states that misuse and overuse of existing anti-microbial microbial than humans animals and plants are accelerating the development of antimicrobial resistance as we also all our food up with that is well before even gets to our dinner plates these are all those things that create these superbugs and those

we're talking about we also have you're finding water and all of that like you said to putting in our food and then we're literally taking it and then we need stronger ones to combat whatever it is also i think it's you know it's all a matter of we've all been taking antibiotics for the wrong things and doctors are more than happy to hand them out when. i recall they keep taking and keep taking them and that's not helping but that's a symptom of of capitalism really like our pharmaceutical problem like we wouldn't have this if it weren't for capitalism because nobody would be out there making and shed trying to push something that ultimately men. don't want to actually be popular oh that's the cool catch with this so the thing so it one of the things that a lot of people are starting to say is that we need to stop treating an iyonix as if they're just like any other product so looking at it it doesn't work in a free market it's not it's not how it's supposed to work so their value right now

is determined by the number of units sold kevin alister men are out of outer sun boston university professor who specializes in antibiotic resistance told fox this is a product where we want to sell as little as possible the ideal would be an amazing antibiotic that just sits on the shelf for decades waiting for well we need it that's great for public health but it's a freakin disaster for come. i'm not said if it's not profitable they don't go out which is why our pharmaceutical companies these things shouldn't there are certain things that just should not be for profit i couldn't agree more i couldn't agree more these things should be treated almost a little bit like infrastructure like a government definitely a government entity where you have you know especially in a bionics because they're so important to us and like we say the more we use the more the drugs evolve the more the viruses evolve and they get. tempted and has the problem we're facing and but there's hope if we decide to put a little money behind it and when i'm a little i'm

a lot of money but in context it's ok. for the united states alone. the total cost to fix the broken system that we have now would be around one point five to two billion dollars per year according to. a new we just quoted that's the equivalent to what we spend on pile of paper every few months. a really huge amount you think about the whole economy and i think exactly improving antibiotic stewardship is another thing especially in animal agriculture in the u.k. and our pointed out and then the centers for medicare and medicaid services proposed a policy more than two years ago to require antibiotic stewardship programs teaching people how to properly prescribe when to prescribe wide to prescribe and when to use and things like that little things we can do to keep us all from creating a superbug and killing ten million people a year by two thousand and fifty because you know we've had these before they're called plagues. don't go on that. over two thousand

journalists and staff of major digital media organizations have been laid off or let go since the beginning of twenty nineteen and it shows little signs of slowing so what's causing this labor bloodbath well firebrand congresswoman alexandria cacio quite tweeted in january the biggest threat. journalism right now are tech monopolies and a concentration of ownership without a wide range of independent outlets and the revenue to sustain them our democracy will continue to crumble this week's facebook co-founder chris hughes went on a full fledged media tour to say it's time to break up facebook for the same reasons and in the case of digital news sites like vice vox mashable gawker and money their value was based on their ability to exploit facebook and google to reach larger audiences in turn they sold their companies on the premise that facebook and google needed their content turns out they didn't which is why disney

who invested heavily in device media just a few years ago at a more than five billion dollar valuation is now racking up losses on the hipster news group according to disney's recent earnings report the mouse saw a three hundred fifty three million dollar loss on the heels of another one hundred fifty seven million dollars loss late last year feist's however is not an outlier as a few years ago a small group of so-called independent news outlets with massive funding and sky high valuations started getting bought up and started buying up even smaller outlets and in an attempt to be media giants themselves now while journalists are chucked out like day old bread investors are starting to realize that trying to buy into big media will leave them sold out to debt collectors leaving news consumers with less of options journalists with us freedom and the very checks and balances we need in the last column. shock to our soldiers to do when they're so big no

voices were disney basically said it was a worthless we can't figure out yeah it's not worth anything and those are you know argue about laying on a man's eyes and do you make money no do you lose money over your yes do you see a time in the next ten years will be profitable no because you don't know you're not what you were. not was a five billion dollars of the you. our valuation that anybody who saw the first dot com bubble should sort of laugh at this because these valuations are exactly what happened this is what happened with a bunch of tech companies they were like oh it's going to be worth a million dollars i'm going to buy all this and then nothing happened they all just kind of. so voice rice responded in a very vise like way. stating as the media industry consolidates and fewer players control the information and entertainment of the world can say and vice will always be there with a megaphone for the more than half of the people on this planet under the age of thirty who crave independent world class content oh yeah they're super in the

present because it's those independent which they did interviews with like brock obama and stuff like that all the time they also just got two hundred fifty million dollars more in. dad or got more fun day centrally from one of the not to be conspiratorial about a george company just given two hundred fifty million so indeed so in a year or so india is the is so you know you could literally on by a bunch of companies. and you mentioned that in the in the top it's when these companies suddenly decide to become you know media can they want to sell rather than focusing on like this is the one thing we do right now do you do this best right suddenly we've got a brand i mean the vice media group consists of a global television station a studio digital news and an advertising agency they have their own advertising and i mean that's ridiculously huge if you're really all about at the end of the day you know reporting hardcore stories and hardcore journalism and doing it that way

focus you don't need the other stuff that i've noticed. because i want to be like disney well we don't have everything will do everything everybody will come to us this is the hard part but they're not the only ones because c.n.n. . is also having a little bit of issues they're seeing job losses and a restructuring there for the hollywood reporter there was a round of buyouts and c.n.n. staffers are a little worried about what's next. the group also represents like the there was a bunch of people who were given the chance of saying hey walk out and say here's your big x. and they did but the group that was in the article also represents a large number of the last employees who remember ted turner walking the halls of c.n.n. center and the sort of bread and butter of the network people who are just c.n.n. legends so the people behind the scenes at c.n.n. and these that that were there when really built things up before it started this road minute clips and things they kind of that old guard that keeps track of things

doesn't save. one in the election that never happened that group that sort of used to be that gave c.n.n. that the reason people look to them because they were supposed to be there are good those people are leaving so you see a huge restructuring when you see everything else cutting the cutting a lot of digital jobs a lot of editor as it's but it's because i mean the whole facebook thing everything every trying to make money. that's the thing too because i'm in according to reuters of digital news report doesn't it seems that social media usage is down six percentage points in the united states and is also down in the u.k. and france which is due to a specific decline in the discovery posting and sharing a. facebook and that's what happens when you spend two plus years arguing that facebook has to do something and that it's this horrible place and their members and those mediums could be ro-ro i'm not good i can handle that you know you know we'll. just have to try to get more megaphone here. to

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the great quote says the degree of civilization it is can be drugged by entering its presence so what degree of civilization will we say the united states of america has when some of its prisoners are now set to be used as guinea pigs for modern corporate medicine they advocate is reporting that a pilot program for treating opioid addiction is now being tested on louisiana prisoners using an implant that has not been approved by federal regulators the device which is surgically implanted in prisoners addicted to opioids releases the well known and widely used drug now truck so well now truck sound has a pretty bad as been approved by the f.d.a. a daily pill form or month you shot there is no such approval for the drug to be administered through surgically implanted devices while prison officials stress that the procedure will only be used on inmates who volunteer and are nearing their release date many critics feel that the ethics issues at play here are shocking in the least and downright or reflect at most joining us now to discuss this story and

the ethics and history that surround it is co-host a producer of the beyond the prison's podcast will say thank you for joining us cam . thanks for having me kim you know i i already can hear you know the arguments coming saying like oh hey the inmates they're volunteering and given the severity of the opioid crisis what is what is the harm in testing this device out on inmates i mean they're in there they they deserve it what blah blah blah blah blah what part of this story is missed by those making that kind of argument that it's ok to test it on have t. approved things on inmates. you know what i think i would probably say that it's not just testing things that are approved by the f.d.a. but testing on prisoners in general that's part of the problem but also taking a step back and asking a different question why are we using prisons as places or sites for treating

people that have a medical condition such as addiction so i think that you know for me those are the key features here in terms of you know this issue of consent and you know prisoners are prisoners and they should be treated you know or subject to whatever torture is mechanisms we can you know devise of for them while they're in prison i think that that's also part of the problem and i think that that's a coup or ethical issue that we have failed to really address and grapple with in this country i think there is a long history of you know prisoner testing or use of prisoners in medical and drug testing in this country that is pretty much covered in the mainstream in the mainstream well that was in that was my next question is because this isn't i mean anyone is a mild student of the u.s.

prison system our prisons in general knows a lot of really bad stories can you tell our viewers a little bit about that these these instances in the past in the american press. an experience or you know in which they were use essentially as guinea pigs having things tested on them he does have some of those. yeah well i can think of several different examples but i'll just share a couple if we have time the first one i'm thinking of is what happened at stateville prison in illinois during world war two where over four hundred prisoners were infected purposely infected with the malaria virus and that experiment was framed in terms of you know this is for the good of the country that you're being a patriotic citizen if you're participating in it and i think that that kind of framing and that narrative is part and parcel of what we're seeing today with the

way that opioid crisis or the proposed treatment and now actual treatment of prisoners in louisiana is happening right so. that's just one example the other example that i can think of is what happened here in pennsylvania also around the same time so again during world war two and this was also framed in terms of you know helping the war effort so a lot of people or many of the prisons in pennsylvania had been you know sites of different kinds of chemical testing dow chemical had contracts with the prisons so that they could conduct dioxin testing in the prisons one prisoner the u.s. army chemical corps had a program where they were doing mind control testing with prisoners in pennsylvania and this doesn't just implicate you know prison staff and doctors and those folks

but it also implicates. institutions of higher education in the case of pennsylvania there was a university a pen. professor who was at the center of all of the testing that was happening so you can see that you know at least from those two examples and there are more that there is a history here that goes back very far i think to expand this and broaden this beyond just what was happening in prisons is the notion of testing on vulnerable populations and for that you know we can cite the experiment which was a forty year plus experiment on black men in the south who were participants in a study on syphilis that went and they went untreated so you know there's the idea was basically that they would they could go to

a doctor but the doctors were required to not give them the treatment and the only reason we know about that story is because we had with the blower who in the one nine hundred seventy s. was able to bring lighter help shed light on this problem by. submitting his findings to a reporter at the associated press and the article that came out of that basically helped shift the conversation in this country around medical testing and prisoners and also the new ssion of things like informed consent which by the way had been around from nineteen it was established in one nine hundred fifty seven but it wasn't you know we didn't really give it any serious consideration until after the test ski gear experiments came to light you know thirty forty plus years later in

the one nine hundred seventy s. you know speaking of an informed consent i mean i think that like. prisons the idea of prisons is a you know someone goes there to be reformed not just kind of catalog been locked away. riginal idea what we all hope to get to that point is like someone should go there to help reform and make them a better person and then get them back on the society and things like that treating addiction among inmates i think is an important issue what do you feel are better ways of handling this for prisoners and helping them beat the disease of addiction and things like that while they're behind bars you know once a better way we can do this. well i like i said earlier i think. very clear in the fact that i don't believe that people with addiction issues should be in prison i think that that's a medical issue and those folks need to be treated in different spaces and not spaces that behave in the same way that prisons do because we can set up hospitals and clinics that function and operate the same way that prisons operate and that's

not what i what i'm thinking of but also i think it's important to recognize in the article that you mentioned talks about this for at least a question to a doctor who said that we already have a treatment that has been tested we know that it works it's called the gold standard and that's the treatment that if we're going to be doing anything with people in prison we should be offering but again this notion of consent is really. any business when we're talking about people who are living under coercive conditions if you're living in coercive conditions you cannot consent so i think that we need to have we need to also have that conversation. i think one of the things we do now is that there is if you are in a position where you can freely make a decision about anything in your life you can expect to be expected to make

a decision about it under this the way our prison system is and. i couldn't agree more and i think that's such a great point to bring up because. well you guys say it's your you're in prison you're a ward of the state about point load and a lot of these people would say oh yeah give me an implant you know we don't know if they are truly comfortable with this or they're just saying that at the end of the day because rode a the guy who's jailing me just said i should you know we have laws about being on their ass and not being able to make certain this says and i want to say thank you so much for coming on the bay and really showed and some good light on this issue of medical testing inside prisons i think it's something that should definitely be looked up our society more thank you so much co-host and producer beyond prison the podcast can wilson always a pleasure having you on thank you. thank you for having me. just over a year ago paragon nano labs in reston virginia received a d.n.a. profile from the seattle police it was taken from the scene of the unsolved murder

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