Meanwhile, demand in the massive Chinese market has been weaker than anticipated. Official data for June showed dollar-denominated imports down from the previous month and falling on the year for a fourth consecutive month.

L’Oreal CEO Nicolas Hieronimus acknowledged in an earnings call in July that consumer confidence in China is “not yet at the pre-COVID level.”

So the West is decoupling their economies from China, as they should

Should probably just keep listing movies back a century, and then books back for centuries before that, since “having feelings” is just how you tell stories that people like

A giant bag of carrots costs $2. Maybe try a giant bag of beans for $2, or some fucking potatoes. People who eat shit to a large degree are choosing to eat shit, not forced to due to poverty. People load up on sodas, sugary cereals, juices, chips, processed cheese products, cookies, you name it, and those things are largely more expensive than healthier alternatives

“This single anecdote proves Stalin never did anything wrong!”

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I mean, it says what happened right there in the article, and no the problem wasn’t “corporate media telling yuppies” anything. In reality, people of lower socioeconomic status are more likely to develop an alcohol use disorder and to suffer serious health consequences from alcohol use, and blaming “yuppies” does a disservice to anyone who needs to hear this message.

One reason for the shift is that researchers now know that there were some procedural flaws in past research, says Dr. Manson. Past studies often compared people who drank alcohol against a mixed group of nondrinkers. Although some of the people in the nondrinking group never drank alcohol, some had stopped drinking because they were recovering from alcohol use disorders and had been heavy drinkers for years before they quit. Others had given up alcohol because of health problems, such as heart disease or diabetes, or because they were taking medications that interacted with alcohol, says Dr. Manson.

“When studies excluded former drinkers and people with underlying health problems, they didn’t show the same alcohol-related cardiovascular benefits,” says Dr. Manson.

In addition, the WHF noted that much of the past research on alcohol and heart health consisted of observational studies — not the more reliable randomized controlled trials. When randomized trials were conducted, they failed to find a heart benefit from drinking alcohol. Also, some of the most favorable effects of alcohol had been found in studies paid for by the alcohol industry, which raised the potential of bias.

If you’re going to dodge the question, why bother responding at all

The far-right party leading this protest has zero (0) seats in parliament, that’s how popular they are

We have one in our neighborhood park that people maintain on their free time. You seem angry and I don’t think it’s about little free libraries, so what are you actually angry about?

In the article, no one is saying anything bad about this Chinese company having devised a cheaper technique (they’re charging $75K USD vs others charging ~$400K USD). The complaint is against decreased oversight and individual hospitals misusing the treatment and causing harm in the name of profit:

There is concern among researchers, regulatory experts and drugmakers themselves that allowing hospitals to market treatments for a fee could cause profit-making to trump ethical considerations. In a 2016 case widely reported in the Chinese media, a 22-year-old college student with a rare type of tissue cancer called synovial sarcoma died after going through an experimental cell therapy at a Beijing hospital.

“Hospitals can become both players and referees at the same time”

Before his death, the patient posted an essay online claiming the hospital had falsely advertised the treatment’s effectiveness, and that Chinese search engine Baidu Inc. had displayed the hospital’s advertising so that it appeared like a credible search result rather than a paid commercial. The essay went viral and sparked an outcry on Chinese social media over the ethics of private hospitals and the regulation of therapies for serious illnesses.

Censured by the Cyberspace Administration of China, Baidu responded by restricting the number of sponsored posts to 30% of a results page, and established a 1 billion yuan fund to fight fraud. The hospital did not respond to requests for comment.

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