“Weight loss jabs like Ozempic linked to deadly cancer diagnosis in the year after using them”
Commentary by qpooqpoo:
So new research has come out suggesting a significant increase in cancer from the use of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists, a.k.a GLP-1 agonists, a.k.a "Ozempic," "Wegovy," and "Mounjaro." Modern technological interventions in the human body come fast and often end in disaster. It wouldn’t be surprising if 'the jabs,' as they’re affectionately called, become just another tombstone in the graveyard of broken technological promises. The research is still preliminary we're told, and it may be that the causal link to cancer is overblown. Then again, it may not. After all, it's difficult to parse out the many ways modern society poisons us and which toxin leads to which disease. But anecdotal evidence from doctors in the field is pointing to a whole host of other "side effects" including "'serious, life-threatening complications’ including seizures, bowel obstruction and inflammation of the pancreas."
Ozempic follows the same tired pattern of reckless technological experimentation on the human body. With every new technology, the system ramps up its propaganda and sells us a rosy, idealistic picture of endless promise. Often only later do its negative effects rear their head, and often only at a point where the social system has so integrated the technology that to remove it entirely would prove just as disastrous as its effects have shown to be. We are told that while abuse is possible and to a certain extent inevitable, some people "need" this drug, because for them diet and exercise will never be enough. The implication is that some inherent trait or genetic flaw makes them resistant to natural weight-loss alternatives. This is patently absurd to anyone with a historical view that stretches back more than a couple hundred years. Anyone familiar with the anthropology can point out that obesity and diabetes were unheard of in those societies. Something about modern industrial society clearly makes it much harder for people to avoid becoming overweight. But because this observation is not acceptable to the scientific mindset--no definable cause can be isolated and tested to a provable result--the hypothesis that some people are just inherently obese and diabetic can slide by with the force of empirical legitimacy. This author has never heard the anthropological evidence cited in any of the ethical discussions surrounding the drug, and if it is, it is few and far between.
But even if we ignore the biological aspect, there's a bigger issue: what happens to society when these drugs become widespread? Let's assume there are zero side effects. Clearly something about the modern environment is causing widespread obesity and diabetes, and clearly this is a technologically imposed condition because everything in modern society is overwhelmingly determined by technological necessities. Widespread use of this drug, even if it improves health, would only reduce the incentive to address the environmental factors fueling the crisis in the first place. This will allow society to further increase the conditions that lead to diabetes and obesity. Over time, conditions could deteriorate so much that even those who avoid these drugs today may be forced to rely on them out of necessity. In other words, they won't be optional in practice. There is no end to this logic: as every tampering with the human species designed to make him tolerate conditions he should otherwise not tolerate, or be healthy in conditions he should not be healthy in, leads to further tampering, and so on.
Finally, the widespread use of these drugs—and the dependency they create—will only deepen humanity’s reliance on the techno-industrial system that manufactures and distributes them. The more people rely on the system for survival, the more they are forced to accept its evils. For those who oppose the system, this creates a problem: those most harmed by it may become its most dependent defenders.
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