Daniel Schmachtenberger
Daniel Schmachtenberger is a social philosopher and strategist. His work examines systemic issues, including the societal and structural root causes contributing to the chronic disease epidemic.
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Napalm is in the same molecular class as dioxin.
"To think about this thing that we invented as a chemical weapon to destroy nature at scale, napalm, which is dioxin, same molecular class." (said at 0:16:59)
Napalm is not dioxin, nor is it in the same molecular class. Napalm is an incendiary mixture composed of a gelling agent (historically aluminum salts of naphthenic and palmitic acids, and later polystyrene and benzene) mixed with gasoline or petroleum fuels, functioning as a thermal weapon. Dioxins (specifically polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins such as 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzodioxin or TCDD) are heterocyclic organochlorine compounds that occurred as toxic contaminants in tactical defoliants such as Agent Orange (composed of 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D). Napalm and dioxin are chemically, structurally, and functionally distinct substances.
When combining properly prescribed medications, medical errors, adverse drug interactions, surgeries, and hospital-acquired infections, iatrogenesis is the number one cause of death in the United States.
"If you take iatrogenesis to mean diseases that come from interaction with the healthcare system at large... prescriptions that are rightly given, prescriptions that are wrongly given, allergic reactions to meds and drug interactions and whatever, surgeries, infections you get while in the hospital, etc. If you add those up, many people add those up and it's the number one cause of death of Americans in the country." (said at 0:38:12)
Even under broad definitions that aggregate medical errors, hospital-acquired infections, surgical complications, and adverse drug reactions, published estimates in medical literature place iatrogenic mortality as the third leading cause of death in the United States, behind heart disease and cancer, not the number one cause. A widely cited 1998 meta-analysis of US hospital data estimated that fatal adverse drug reactions caused approximately 106,000 deaths annually, ranking them between the fourth and sixth leading cause of death. Subsequent analyses combining medical errors and systemic adverse events have estimated total annual deaths at approximately 225,000 to 251,000, placing medical errors behind heart disease (approx. 600,000–700,000 annual deaths) and cancer (approx. 600,000 annual deaths).
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