Most drugs and vaccines that are used in NZ are developed overseas and trialled there first, we simply do not have the population to support adequate drug trial research. So no, perhaps we don't have extensive testing HERE, but they have been tested somewhere else before they get here.
I just think the pharmaceutical company conspiracy theories are getting waaaay out of hand. Soon nobody will trust anyone with any degree of professional knowledge and we will all self medicate with stuff from the health food shop that ISN'T regulated or tested at all.
If the general public think they know more than the ministry of health and the medical professions on the whole, and more than extensive global research, then they don't have to subject themselves to the evil pharmacy products, do they?
Look what happened the last time they did that- people stopped getting the MMR vaccine, and we end up with a much higher incidence of measles, AND the link between MMR and autism was never confirmed. IN fact, the doctor that first commented that there might be a link admitted that they there wasn't as much basis for their comment as they first thought and I think they ended up getting struck off the medical register in the UK.
You can always try homeopathy. Now there is something thats been proven time and time again by extensive scientific research to be effective. (Not!!)
Edited by Lady Lizard