shortstories @[email protected]

Triclosan: A Widespread Environmental Toxicant with Many Biological Effects - PMC - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4774862/

Frontiers | The impact of triclosan on the spread of antibiotic resistance in the environment - https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/microbiology/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2014.00780/full

Triclosan: an Instructive Tale - PMC - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5118979/

so, to recap:

1. i was there, working in one of the companies investing in the deregulation of not just testing of new pharmaceuticals but redefining t̶e̶s̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ safety… 🧵

they not only said they were following FDA guidelines ―which they helped rewrite, by the way― and the testing proved triclosan didn't kill people immediately, so the products were safe to use under those guidelines.

not only everything i wrote going forward had to be approved by several suits in legal, this is now their legacy:

Antibiotic resistance linked to common household disinfectant triclosan | ScienceDaily - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170703085348.htm

🧵…

with the #AIDS crisis, they believed #triclosan would be the inevitable product to buy, cementing the company’s market dominance in all things detergent… because they didn't even want to make soap. it was cheap chemicals all the way to the bank for this group of Fortune 500 money-grubbing morons.

they stuck triclosan into everything they could. after all, they held the patent to the chemical.

so when i asked them if they had done any studies on the effects on normal skin & gut flora 🧵…

some fuckwad in one of the subsidiaries decided to try creating a compound with silica to save money on the chalk used over 100 years to make toothpaste.

it ended up as exactly as you can imagine: the company paying up for “personal injury” cases and gagging people about mentioning anything in public.

which takes me back to the point of the triclosan patent: they literally were trying to create a need, for an antimicrobial, that wasn’t there…🧵

🗣ALLERGIES TESTING SHOULD BE STANDARD PROTOCOL FOR PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

we could see immediately, in our own toothpastes, how those changes in 1994 were wrecking havoc for some people.

changes in sweetners were triggering allergic reactions by the thousands, but the biggest, OMFG was the base of the paste itself.

🧵…

🗣 NOT ONCE
🗣 NOT TWICE
🗣 THREE ANAPHYLACTIC REACTIONS TO CHEMOTHERAPY

my oncologist had to scream at the hospital administrator to go deal with the insurance company so she could use the un-mixed version of my chemo.

the insurance and the hospital decided that us poors should stick to the pre-mixed, additive-laden solution to cut costs.

that solution almost killed me 3 times.

but because it is NOT the active ingredient doing the harm, that cheaper version will still be peddled… 🧵…

why do i give you this background context to discuss this #RFK #MMR #vaccines nonesense?

🗣BECAUSE THE PROBLEM IS IN HOW INACTIVE INGREDIENTS ARE TREATED

my son had an anaphylactic reaction to the MMRs. you don't want to know how it feels to have the limp body of your baby after doing the “right thing” and being a responsible parent.

but the gaslighting about inactive ingredients in vaccines and immunotherapy is what also almost killed me during chemo… 🧵…

since the focus on safety was now only on ACTIVE ingredients, pharma companies went to town changing INACTIVE ingredients to cut as many costs as they could and maximize profits.

OH! did i mention that these changes went hand-in-hand with the ability of a company to "protect" their patents?

patents were based on the original pharma recipe. not anymore. now companies could use old recipes, change one ingredient and have a completely new patent, lowering the cost of R&D, so… 🧵…

1994 brought us clintonian triangulation to food and drug safety:

the bar was completely removed by basically defining safety as “it does not immediately kill you”.

this one change is what fucked up a lot of people with weird reactions to pharmaceuticals and cosmetics they had used without a problem… 🧵…

they wanted to exploit fears about #AIDS by deregulating from “industry only” to “mass market” the triclosan hand detergent they only sold to hospitals and meat processing plants.

they also wanted to side-step all the testing involved for such a move. they claimed statistical evidence would suffice for proving the soap or toothpastes were already safe, so they should only focus on the active ingredient… by redefining safety… 🧵…

why were they spending so much money on these changes:

you have to understand the public health context of 1994: we are still at the height of the #AIDS #pandemic but, after 12 years of fascist antigay policy from Reagan and Bush, 1994 felt like a pivot towards destigmatizing the disease.

so some genius at CP thought it would be great for the company to pivot to “antimicrobial all the things!”

not because soap and water weren't enough…

not because it would stop the spread of AIDS but… 🧵

CP had spent millions into greasing palms in DC for changes like:

Federal Register, Volume 59 Issue 116 (Friday, June 17, 1994) - https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-1994-06-17/html/94-14503.htm

Federal Register, Volume 59 Issue 190 (Monday, October 3, 1994) - https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-1994-10-03/html/94-24052.htm

these involve the definition of antimicrobial and the testing and labeling of pharmaceutical products, including cosmeceuticals like toothpaste (fluoride is a pharmaceutical, toothpaste a teeth cosmetic, hence a cosmeceutical)

🧵…

i created the compromise between fielding thousands of daily phone calls about the company’s products and the script legal wanted, to ward off any liabilities from the multimillion dollar lobbying for changes to the FDA’s regulatory powers.

at play? PATENTS.

companies like CP are too old to hold their original patent monopolies. this meant either buying companies with new patents or investing gobs of money in new R&D.

🧵…

in 1993-94, i started work at Colgate-Palmolive as an occasional translator for their Consumer Affairs department. ended up writing their whole intranet knowledge-base (in DOS thank you very much).

my title was “tech writer” but, in truth? was the person who would take the bullshit from sales & marketing, discussed the science with R&D then went to legal to massage the message that went into the knowledge-base.

the CEO & VPs were rabidly against the scripts legal wanted the reps to parrot 🧵…

🗣AAAAAAAAAUGH!

❝ Kennedy claimed at one point: “Something happened in the mid-90s that changed our children, and it has to be an environmental exposure.” ❞
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/10/trump-vaccines-executive-order-measles

i am one of those mothers who had her child have an anaphylactic reaction to the MMRs in the 1990s and am here to tell you this fascist fuckwad should know it had nothing to do with the #vaccines and everything to do with the changes to FDA regulation that happened in 1994 during the Clinton administration

🧵…

@shortstories There should be a masters program in Kikeology.

@LudditeMan @shortstories Welcome students. My name is Professor Tyreese, and I will be with you for the next twelve weeks...

10 videos have been removed from the playlist over the last 6 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlHu_bmDFeA&list=PLCWrnCn6zKFnqUwtXZPzvDNvTaA-K8WPp&index=62 [26 minutes] end of the playlist
I obviously had a splendid time listening to the Hindsights