A Legacy of Corruption in the FDA and Big Pharma
Our healthcare system is broken, a fact nobody would have disputed in pre-Covid days. Regulatory capture is a reality, and the pharmaceutical industry is fraught with examples. Yet we trusted private-public partnerships to find an optimal solution to a global pandemic, assuming a crisis would bring out the best in historically corrupt institutions.
Here is a brief list of less-than-savory behavior demonstrated by our titans of healthcare:
- Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson plead guilty to “misbranding with the intent to defraud or mislead” and paying “kickbacks to health care providers to induce them to prescribe [their] drugs,” resulting in fines of $2.3 billion in 2009 and $2.2 billion in 2013, respectively.
- Pfizer settled another lawsuit for “manipulating studies” and “suppressing negative findings” just a few years later.
- Moderna has never developed an approved drug, yet one of their board members was placed in charge of Operation Warp Speed. This certainly is unrelated to the fact that they received the most federal vaccine research and development funding and have received over $6 billion from our government since the start of the pandemic.
- Gilead Sciences paid $97 million in fines, because it “illegally used a non-profit foundation as a conduit to pay the Medicare co-pays for its own drug.”
- In 2005, AstraZeneca’s drug Crestor was shown to be linked to a life-threatening muscle disease while the company withheld evidence of this and two dozen other effects from the public.
- In 2012, GlaxoSmithKline paid $3 billion in fines, as it “failed to include certain safety data” relating to their drug, since labeled as connected to heart failure and attacks.
Thankfully, our public health guardians are in place to protect us from the greed and deceit of the private sector, right? Wrong. Enjoy another brief list:
- The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) worked behind the scenes with company Biogen to alter previously conducted trials of their $56,000 per year Alzheimer’s treatment, and “by removing the subset of people for whom the drug didn’t work, they found a slight statistical effect in favor of the drug.” Even after doing this, an advisory committee voted 10–0 against approving the drug. The FDA approved the drug anyway, causing three committee members to resign.
- In that case, the third-party advisors did the right thing. This is not always the case: a study by Science Magazine tracking 107 FDA advisors for four years found that 62 percent received money from related drug makers, with 25 percent receiving over $100,000 and 6 percent receiving over $1 million. It only takes a few corrupt advisors to fix a panel and feign medical consensus.
- In 2017, it was revealed that the acting Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director for heart disease and stroke prevention had been secretly communicating with Coca-Cola, providing guidance on how “to influence world health authorities on sugar and beverage policy matters.”
The American healthcare system remains mired in good old-fashioned crony capitalism, fascism, corporatism, mercantilism, protectionism … fancy words for when private companies work with governments to subvert the forces of competition. The suppression of research into off-patent drugs is a nasty symptom of this problem.
While there are countless drugs to which this applies, we will discuss ivermectin. First, addressing the drug’s dismissal by its own manufacturer, Merck, let it be known that ivermectin is no longer under patent. Merck no longer owns exclusive rights to the drug’s production. The forces of competition have been bestowed upon the drug, thus making it far cheaper.
Meanwhile, Merck is also currently rolling out an oral covid treatment, which the US government is providing $1.2 billion in funding to research. This would be under patent and may explain the company’s opposition to using ivermectin.
The usefulness of ivermectin remains debatable. However, it’s important to note that in early April 2020, a study at the University of Monash in Australia suggested it can be effective. Moreover, the drug is FDA approved, has existed for forty years, won a Nobel Prize, and is extremely safe when used at recommended levels. Given the crisis and ivermectin’s safety—safe even if not conferring big benefits for covid sufferers—the rush to condemn use of the drug appears suspect.
Indeed, a week after the Australian study was published, the FDA advised against using ivermectin for COVID-19 treatment, forcing desperate people to the black market and to self-prescribe versions of the drug intended for animals.
The FDA noted subsequently that “additional testing is needed.” Yet, to date, there has not been a single completed government-funded study on the effectiveness of ivermectin against covid-19. Meanwhile, they have funneled billions toward research into vaccines and patented treatments.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded trials for remdesivir, still under patent with Gilead, despite it being less effective and having more severe side effects than ivermectin.
The FDA approved remdesivir under emergency use authorization (EUA) despite published trials, later stating “remdesivir was not associated with statistically significant clinical benefits.”
One would think that if “additional testing” is so important, the US government might be interested in funding research to examine the potential benefits of cheap, safe, and proven drugs that have shown some promise in treating covid. But that’s clearly not what going on.
Funding is geared toward helping huge pharmaceutical companies develop new patented drugs. As long Big Pharma wants it, and if there’s a profit to be made, apparently our government will be there to provide funding.
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BOMSHELLL ON AMERICAN TALK RADIO BY RUSH LIMBAUGH REPLACEMENTS
On my way to get a metformin refill I was astonished at this telephone call-in by a Canadian Epidemiologist based out of Toronto.
Apparently Caribbean or Jamaican by the dialect. You need to hear this. Trouble hearing? There is a transcript.
MUST CIRCULATE—all that we at Principia have been saying for almost a year.
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Richard Noakes
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“If” it could be ascertained that Covid “Vaccines” are in actual fact “Gene Therapy”, then the Big 4 and all others, don’t have any cross the board protection from prosecution as they do, while the “Vaccines” are listed as “Vaccines” and they can be held to account for each and every death that their “vaccines” have caused, via The Geneva Convention, including ALL of our politicians who have been bribed or “polled” by Big Pharma and they can all be “hung by the neck, until dead” and the sooner the better, in my opinion, including the Elite Globalists, who, to my way of thinking, are behind what is being allowed to happen here and who they are, might surprise you.
There is only one way to safely combat Coronavirus and that is with my free salt water cure, not with a Nesti Pot or by any other means – we are not talking about silly games here – Delta is very real, it is terrifyingly potent and proficient in killing people, horribly, because it does not have an on/off switch, that “we” know of, it is a man made bio-weapon and “we” are in a fight for the survival of the human species and all other air breathing species on this planet, make no mistake over that.
Complacency will be the death of most of us, especially those who queue up like sheep to be vaccinated, without regards to their safety, or because their TV told them to do it.
See: Vaccine contents by Dr Young: https://www.drrobertyoung.com/post/transmission-electron-microscopy-reveals-graphene-oxide-in-cov-19-vaccines?postId=611fb76141ab600015b9802a
See: A strategy to assess spillover risk of bat SARS-related coronaviruses in Southeast Asia
This article is a preprint and has not been certified by peer review [what does this mean?]. It reports new medical research that has yet to be evaluated and so should not be used to guide clinical practice.
Abstract
Emerging diseases caused by coronaviruses of likely bat origin (e.g. SARS, MERS, SADS and COVID-19) have disrupted global health and economies for two decades.
Evidence suggests that some bat SARS-related coronaviruses (SARSr-CoVs) could infect people directly, and that their spillover is more frequent than previously recognized. Each zoonotic spillover of a novel virus represents an opportunity for evolutionary adaptation and further spread; therefore, quantifying the extent of this “hidden” spillover may help target prevention programs. We derive biologically realistic range distributions for known bat SARSr-CoV hosts and quantify their overlap with human populations. We then use probabilistic risk assessment and data on human-bat contact, human SARSr-CoV seroprevalence, and antibody duration to estimate that ∼400,000 people (median: ∼50,000) are infected with SARSr-CoVs annually in South and Southeast Asia. These data on the geography and scale of spillover can be used to target surveillance and prevention programs for potential future bat-CoV emergence.
Competing Interest Statement
P.D. served as a member of the WHO-China joint study on COVID-19 origins, is a current member of the Lancet COVID-19 Commission Taskforce on the Origins and Early Spread of COVID-19 and One Health Solutions to Future Pandemics, and was Chair of the IPBES Pandemics and Biodiversity Workshop. P.D. has made numerous public statements both independently, and as part of these groups, on the likely origins of COVID-19 and the need to assess risk and prioritize targeted surveillance for future disease emergence. L.F.W. serves on multiple committees for WHO, FAO and OIE on COVID-19 including assay and vaccine development and animal models; has ongoing research investigating the origin of COVID-19; and has made statements on this issue to the media.
Author Declarations
I confirm all relevant ethical guidelines have been followed, and any necessary IRB and/or ethics committee approvals have been obtained.
Yes
The details of the IRB/oversight body that provided approval or exemption for the research described are given below:
Not applicable – this paper does not contain human research data. It analyzes ecological data to infer risk patterns of spillover across a large geographical area.
All necessary patient/participant consent has been obtained and the appropriate institutional forms have been archived.
Yes
I understand that all clinical trials and any other prospective interventional studies must be registered with an ICMJE-approved registry, such as ClinicalTrials.gov. I confirm that any such study reported in the manuscript has been registered and the trial registration ID is provided (note: if posting a prospective study registered retrospectively, please provide a statement in the trial ID field explaining why the study was not registered in advance).
Yes
I have followed all appropriate research reporting guidelines and uploaded the relevant EQUATOR Network research reporting checklist(s) and other pertinent material as supplementary files, if applicable.
Yes
Paper in collection COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 preprints from medRxiv and bioRxiv
Me: So much for “herd immunity”
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FarthingtonMacMananus
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Remember in 2019 when Fauci said that masking and social distancing for viruses was “paranoia,” urging healthy eating and exercise instead?
https://science.news/2021-09-16-2019-fauci-virus-masks-distancing-paranoia-healthy.html#
““No, no, no!” Fauci interjected while laughing as Rubenstein suggested wearing a mask and social distancing as a way to stay safe and protected against infectious disease.
“You avoid all the paranoid aspects and do something positive,” Fauci added in giggling condescension at Rubenstein’s mere suggestion that wrapping one’s face in a diaper might help to prevent infection.
“A) good diet, b) you don’t smoke, I know. I know you don’t drink, at least not very much, so that’s pretty good. Get some exercise – I know that you don’t get as much exercise as you should. Get good sleep – I think that the normal, low-tech, healthy things are the best thing that you can do, David, to stay healthy.”
That’s some interesting prescient sort of patronizing suggestion, don’t you think?
Fauci botched the AIDS epidemic so big pharma could profit. He’s doing it again with COVID
https://corruption.news/2021-09-16-fauci-botched-the-aids-epidemic-for-big-pharma.html
Swine flu? Avian flu? Measles? Polio? Ebola? Influenza in general? ANY supposedly “contagious pathogenic” virus ever? FRAUDULENT BULLSHIT.
BREAKING: Two healthcare insiders at Aegis Living blow whistle on alleged elder abuse and medical fraud … ‘Aegis Living is grossly taking advantage of severely vulnerable adults’ … ‘Signature had been forged multiple times’
https://corruption.news/2021-09-15-healthcare-insiders-at-aegis-living-blow-whistle.html
Now, you kinda know many “healthcare” institutions are kinda pathetic. Their protocols worthless, their methodology and products degenerate. Collapse that system.
Some people DO sell their souls and make pacts and shit…and then they are, well, possessed. It’s much more common than you might think. And since that’d be anti-life qlippoth allegiance, it means fun times like genocide, death, sacrifices, etc.
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FarthingtonMacMananus
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Random stuff most people (including me) might not have known about pharma garbage they love so much.
https://www.activistpost.com/2021/09/hospital-staff-must-swear-off-common-meds-that-used-fetal-cell-lines-for-rd-to-receive-religious-exemption-for-covid-vax.html
““Thus,” Troup went on, “we provided a religious attestation form for those individuals requesting a religious exemption,” he said. The form includes a list of 30 commonly used medicines that “fall into the same category as the COVID-19 vaccine in their use of fetal cell lines,” Conway Regional said.
The list includes Tylenol, Pepto Bismol, aspirin, Tums, Lipitor, Senokot, Motrin, ibuprofen, Maalox, Ex-Lax, Benadryl, Sudafed, albuterol, Preparation H, MMR vaccine, Claritin, Zoloft, Prilosec OTC, and azithromycin.”
Why? Coz it’s founded on sort of anti-life, satanic (or whatever you want to call it) fraudulent degenerate principles. As you would know, sacrifices and rituals are big in cults.
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FarthingtonMacMananus
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Literally none of that shit is anything I use or would use… so hey, I guess I’m religious now.
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