plans are accelerating the development of antimicrobial resistance as we also all our food up with it as well before even gets to our dinner plates these are all those things that create these superbugs another 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 that 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. they were called they keep taking and keep taking on the not 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 should 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 meant or out of an 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 a company and i said if it's not profitable they don't do it which is why our pharmaceutical companies these things shouldn't there are certain things that should not be for profit 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 me and like we see them. or we use the

the more the drugs evolve or the more the viruses evolve and they go down very resistant to the problem we're facing but there's hope if we decide to put a little money behind it yeah and when i say a little i know a lot of money but when you're 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. the movie just quoted that's the equivalent to what we spend on toilet paper every few months just. a really huge amount you think about the whole economy and i'll think exactly improving antibiotic stewardship is another thing especially animal agriculture in the u.k. and our affiliate out in 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 not to use and things like that little things we can do we keep us all from

creating a super bug and killing ten million people a year by two thousand and fifty because you know we've had these before they're called plagues you don't want that you know. 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 a little signs of slowing so what's causing this labor bloodbath well firebrand congresswoman alexandra cortez tweeted in january the biggest threats to 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 facebook co-founder chris hughes went on a full fledged media tour to say it's time to break up facebook for the same reason and in the case of digital news sites like vice vox mashable gawker and might there . 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 newsgroup according to disney's recent earnings report the mouse saw the three hundred fifty three million dollar loss on the heels of another one hundred fifty seven million dollars loss late last year by 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 in an attempt to the 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 options journalists with less freedom and the very checks and balances we need in the last column. i was shocked when i saw this today when the. disney basically said it was a worthless we can't figure out yeah it's not worth anything and those are you know the argue about illegal i mean do you make money no do you lose money. do you see a time the next ten years when you'll be profitable no you don't you know what it was. five billion dollars the valuation valuation met anybody who saw the first dot com bubble should sort of laugh at this because the evaluations are exactly what happened this is what happened with a bunch of tech companies a really oh it's going to be worth a million dollars i'm going to buy all this and then nothing happened they'll just kind of. voice rice responded in a very vise like way. stating as the media industry consolidates and fewer players control the information and. and meant the world can say but i 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 contact or you have their super in the present because it's those independent out words that did interviews and played barack 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 sorry company just under fifty million so indeed so in a year or so in the end how unfair is the is so you know you literally owned by a bunch of company and. you mentioned it in the in the top it's when these companies suddenly decide to become you know media can they are rather than focusing on like this is the one thing we do i'm not doing this best right suddenly we got to branch out 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 it

i mean does 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 is green 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 are seeing job losses and restructuring there is a hollywood reporter there was our 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 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 and digital news report into those meetings and 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 of lose face book 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 a good move i can handle that you know you know we'll. just have to try to get more megaphone hear. them speak go to brokaw watchers don't forget the letters that were used to give a proper govern facebook you tube twitter and so. our poll shows that r.t. dot com coming up we look at the controversy surrounding a new medical procedure being tested on u.s. prisoners were killed wilson the beyond prisoners podcast a to watch it's. been twenty forty you know bloody revolution here to close the demonstrations going from

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of christians around the world in the middle east the cradle of christianity. i think should why is it deemed politically incorrect in the west foundational religion. this is a period of sort of the i suppose it's just bush but if. you're doing with your will boiled so much you would believe that it was and i go to the book. losing is its appeal of. all of the good of that all you want to go to the brink of the none of us to be such a silly was god. enough well it was pretty but growing less. grow but you still don't much because i'm going down on. your do you leave me your money you know did you storm the lead you so my

look down from moods sure because you're doing the clue trick of clusters. as the great quote says the degree of civilization and this 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 trucks own well now trucks own has a pretty bad has been approved by the f.d.a. and 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 at most joining us now to discuss this story and the ethics and history that surround it is co-host of producer of the beyond prisons 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 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 well 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 torturous mechanisms we can devise for them while they're in prison i think that that's also part of the problem and i think that that's

a core 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 me american president spirit. 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 this 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 the 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 on prisoners 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 the university of pennsylvania 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 and 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 tuskegee 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 you know 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 you know 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. prisons and someone goes there to be reformed not just kind of catalogued in locked away riginal idea but we all hope that we can get to that point 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 a doctor who said that we already have a treatment that has been tested we know that it works 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. for 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 again i couldn't agree more and i think that's such a great point to bring up because it's like you guys say it's your you're in prison you're a ward of the state of point 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 it at the end of the day because rode a the guy who's jailing me and said i should you know we have laws about being on

their us 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 of twenty year old police records clerk susan galvin in july of ninety sixty seven d.n.a. and ancestry asper experts then ran the profile through a public d.n.a. database for researchers which led them to the grave of frank with it who died in one thousand eighty seven from complications of diabetes zooming his body they were able to conclusively prove that frank with it a married

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