Big Pharma and the Mob

FREE SYNDICATION: We are partners not rivals. Reprint our news stories to quickly build your news platforms.

“It is scary how many similarities there are between the pharmaceutical industry and the mob. The mob makes obscene amounts of money, as does this industry. The side effects of organised crime are killings and deaths, and the side effects are the same in this industry. The mob bribes politicians and others, and so does the drug industry,” says former Vice-President of Pfizer pharmaceuticals.

Big pharma is filled with examples of wrongful death, extortion, fraud, corruption, obstruction of justice, embezzlement, fake journals, harassment and hit lists that would make even the most hardened Mafia godfather blush. Big Pharma has been fined billions by the U.S. Department of Justice, but these enormous fines are just looked upon as just another acceptable business overhead.

Dr Peter C Gøtzsche has first-hand experience with the criminality behind the pharmaceutical industry. The academic exposed the massive fraud in Deadly Medicines and Organized Crime: How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Healthcare.

Dr Gøtzsche has an impressive clinical background, as noted by The Nordic Cochrane Centre, a not-for-profit organisation that produces credible, accessible health information that is free from commercial sponsorship and other conflicts of interest: A large part of Dr Gøtzsche’s academic career has focused on bias, trials and evidence synthesis.

Gøtzsche reveals the corruption behind exorbitant prices for branded drugs, bringing attention to the fact that drugs are not expensive because of development costs, but because of the political lobbying, marketing and excess profit taking.

He also points out many medical trials are nothing more than smoke and mirrors. Big pharma organise research in such a way that the best populations and comparison groups are selected because they support the preferred outcome of the company; they control data and do analyses in-house and hire professional writers to write the papers. Many times, academics are paid to be listed as contributors to the study, yet in reality; they had very little input and cannot substantiate the data. According to Gøtzsche, “The ‘best’ drugs may simply be those with the most shamelessly biased data.”

“Our prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer in the United States and Europe. Around half of those who die have taken their drugs correctly; the other half die because of errors, such as too high a dose or use of a drug despite contraindications.

“Our drug agencies are not particularly helpful, as they rely on fake fixes, which are a long list of warnings, precautions, and contraindications for each drug, although they know that no doctor can possibly master all of these.

Major reasons for the many drug deaths are impotent drug regulation, widespread crime that includes corruption of the scientific evidence about drugs and bribery of doctors, and lies in drug marketing, which is as harmful as tobacco marketing and, therefore, should be banned.

We should take far fewer drugs, and patients should carefully study the package inserts of the drugs their doctors prescribe for them and independent information sources about drugs such as Cochrane reviews, which will make it easier for them to say “no thanks”.”²

Before you shrug-off Gøtzsche’s argument as simply one man’s view on a complex issue, consider pharmaceutical giant Merck’s tainted history. During testimony in an Australian class action case, emails between Merck employees presented labels such as “neutralize,” “neutralized,” or “discredit” next to doctors’ names who criticized the drug Vioxx. One email said: “We may need to seek them out and destroy them where they live.”

There’s a great deal of dissent among medical professionals when it comes to natural health, and many refuse to entertain the idea that healing involves more than pharmaceutical chemicals.

Incredibly, the AMA represents only 17% of medical doctors, many of which are medical students who were given a free membership. And yet, the organisation is the fifth most powerful special interest group on Capitol Hill, paying out a staggering $19.7 million for lobbying efforts in 2014 alone.

MICHAEL WALSH like Julian Assange is an internationally acclaimed journalist, author, and broadcaster shunned by liberal-left corporate media. He is the author of RISE OF THE SUN WEEL, EUROPE ARISE, TROTSKY’S WHITE NEGROES, MEGACAUST, WITNESS TO HISTORY, SCULPTURES OF THE THIRD REICH VOLUME I and VOLUME II  and 51 other book titles.

KEEP REAL NEWS OPEN: Donate by using Western Union, MoneyGram, registered mail or contact Michael Walsh: [email protected] or [email protected] 2) Follow our blog. 3) Share our stories and 4) buy our author signed books. 5) Receive free newsletters by writing subscribe to [email protected]

Michael Walsh currently has eight books listed under BUY DIRECT. Royalties will be ploughed into adding further popular titles declared taboo by the treacherous troika; Amazon, Facebook, and Mainstream Media. When ordering the book contact Michael Walsh by email [email protected] to receive your signed copy.

New stories every day!

THE ETHNIC-EUROPEAN

The Voice of Ethnic-Europeans Worldwide

https://europeansworldwide.wordpress.com/