Explain how we keep treating essential tremor as a disease of the elderly to be managed with CNS depressant drugs, when we have known for decades the disease is entirely caused by a single substance (harmane) which can be mostly avoided by stopping coffee, tobacco and meat consumption?

There are plenty of other examples.

> which can be mostly avoided by stopping coffee, tobacco and meat consumption?

Wait, so you're implying the medical industry is responsible for people eating meat and drinking coffee?

I do not buy their take either.

However, a more generous interpretation of their comment would probably sound something more like “some substances/products get banned on the grounds of being detrimental to people’s health, but this isn’t happening to coffee/meat despite their claimed dangers. This must be due to the medical industry lobbying or controlling all world government bodies, so that the industry can extract more revenue from people.”

It is still a conspiracy theory full of holes, but imo that feels more representative of what the grandparent likely meant.

It has nothing to do with coffee, tobacco and meat per se and everything to do with how coffee, tobacco and meat is prepared for human consumption. It is the pyrolytic processes which form harmane from amino acids.

No, just that they are taking advantage of status quo.

The textbook example of course being Sovaldi [1] the cure for Hepatitis C that was invented and then sold for ~84 K$ when introduced which massively undercut the prevailing treatments which cost ~40 K$ per year for a lifetime (40+ years of treatment on average).

Turns out, the shareholders really preferred getting a pile of money over other people who are not themselves getting a even bigger pile of money. Bunch of moneygrubbers ruining a good gig.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofosbuvir