Microchips in pills to ensure "compliance"


	Microchips in pills to ensure "compliance"

Alect

10-5-2009 4:02 PM

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Alect says:

A very scary slippery slope we're on. I think that anyone with more than 3 operating brain cells can see that the only concern of the big pharma is increasing their profits.

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