Big pharma

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Interests	drugs, Pandemic/Preparation, Genetic modification
The multinational drug companies, supposedly in competition, but who have interlocking interests and personnel, and who operate a revolving door with their supposed regulatory agencies, now long since captured.

Big pharma is a shorthand for referring to the large pharmaceutical companies.

Official narrative

Wikipedia has an article entitled Big Pharma conspiracy theory which, as the title suggests, . Most concerns around big pharma are illegitimate.

Advertising

Advertising and marketing is so important to big pharma that "9 out of the top 10 industry leaders spend more on marketing than on research and development", while some commercially-controlled media writers like to point at R&D and trials as the cause of high prices. (Pfizer addresses the question of high prices on its website, but does not really answer it)

Legal cases of note

Those who are adversely affected by medications, even when not warned about them on the label, were determined in a 5-4 decision by the US Supreme Court not to be liable to financial compensation.

Lobbying

Full article: Big pharma/Lobby

Full article: Big pharma/Lobbyist

Big Pharma spends much more on governmental lobbying and "public relations" than any other industry.

Manipulation of studies

Pharma companies manipulate studies for publication by choosing and excluding parameters beforehand, thus framing the findings:

• the medication will be tested against another one, from which is known, that it is inferior in it's effectiveness
• the medication will be tested against another one, which is administered in lesser dosage than to be effective
• the medication will be tested against another one, which is administered in higher dosage to let the own medication appear less toxic
• the formulation of questions beforehand will be done in such a way, that positive results are guaranteed
• only positive results will be publicized, which may be clinical endpoints like: survival time, pain relief, blood pressure - but relative risk or absolute risk may not not change and are not mentioned
• adverse reaction from vaccines is by and in large caused by adjuvants; control studies with a "placebo" are done with the same adjuvants without the pathogen, to show that side effects are equally on both sides

Watch on YouTube

Journeyman Pictures: Perspectives on the Pandemic - The Illusion of Evidence Based Medicine — "As much of the world rushes to receive a lightly-tested pharmaceutical product, we thought it was high time to look again at the (very) big business of medicine. Leemon McHenry, PhD, guides us to the fraudulent core of ghostwritten studies, captured legislators, revolving-door regulatory agencies, pay-to-play medical journals, and the "key opinion leaders" who lend their academic credentials to giant corporations...for a price."

In 2015, Richard Horton, editor of the prestigious medical journal the Lancet, wrote bluntly of these problems. A symposium—on the reproducibility and reliability of biomedical research, held at the Wellcome Trust in London discussed "one of the most sensitive issues in science today: the idea that something has gone fundamentally wrong with one of our greatest human creations." Pointing out that "part of the problem is that no-one is incentivised to be right. Instead, scientists are incentivized to be productive and innovative" he also stated:

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“Much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness.”
Richard Horton (2015) 

Dr. Marcia Angell, a physician and was longtime Editor-in-Chief of the New England Medical Journal (NEMJ), considered to be another one of the most prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals in the world, has made similar observations:

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“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of the New England Journal of Medicine.”
Marcia Angell (2009) 

Weblinks

• Rockefeller Medicine a report by James Corbett - Video links

References