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Welcome to the Dissident Dispatch everyone. Thanks once again for coming aboard.
Today I am going to give my two cents about Big Pharma! Those dastardly medical system manipulators!
Good God Almighty people where do I start?
Let me start with a quick disclaimer, just so my friends and family who work their ass off within the medical system are less offended and pissed at me.
Most Doctors, nurses and other health care workers are trying to do their best, they want to help people, make them better, keep them alive and get them out the door and back with their families. Everyone is happy and healthy!
More than once when I needed trauma care, if it were not for the hardworking, caring people in the white coats and scrubs, my ass would have been dead or hobbling for the rest of my days.
No doubt without many modern medicines and surgery procedures many of us would all be dead at an early age.
So to all my friends and family in the medical field that may one day hear this, please do not take this personally, I love you all and am thankful for what you do.
End of disclaimer. Moving on! Where do I start?
The over prescribing of psychiatric meds and opiates?
Unquestionable, cult-like Vaccine dogma?
Large scale criminal fraud by big Pharma?
Conquered politicians through Pharma's political lobbying?
Conquered academia through public-private for profit partnerships and lucrative new medicine patent deals?
It is hard to keep up with all the scams and fraudulent collusion between big pharma, big government and their favored approved and controlled research institutions.
Or what about the Pharma conquered legacy media, who rarely dares speak a negative word about big Pharma. Let me start there.
Turn on any television or pick up any magazine in the United States and you are bombarded with medicine advertisements.
The US is one of only two nations in the world, the other being New Zealand, where direct to consumer prescription drug advertising is allowed by the government.
Imagine that, New Zealand.
I am sure many of you have been paying attention to Jacinda Ardern, the New Zealand Prime Minister, and all the authoritarian speeches she gives. What a dictatorial lunatic?
I live abroad, and as soon as I reach the first airport in the United States when traveling back home to Florida, I immediately notice the insane amount of medicine advertisements on television and in magazines.
I think many in the United States are so accustomed to medical ads, they do not realize how strange it is.
“Ask your doctor about this or that and how it can help you with this and that.” And of course at the end of the commercial, the weird high speed legal disclaimer about all the adverse effects. 45 seconds of fancy marketing and 2 minutes worth of adverse effects sped up to 15 seconds.
And the ads are everywhere in print publications too, it’s wild to witness, once you have been detached from the US television programming for a while.
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I remember the first time I saw an ad for “restless leg syndrome.” I honestly thought it was a parody! How about doing some exercise during the day or evening, so your leg is not restless?
They will classify nearly anything into a syndrome or a disease, approve a drug for the new illness, advertise it to you directly, and then pay commissions to the doctors to prescribe the drug to you after you come in their office and ask the doctor about it.
How much money are these Pharma companies paying for advertising in the US?
Big Pharma spent $6.58 billion in 2020 on direct-to-consumer advertising in the U.S. Pharmaceutical companies rank as the third largest television advertiser in the United States, behind the automotive and retail industry. Makes sense, people need cars, Amazon and drugs right?
In 2018 the United States was the largest pharmaceutical market in the world, generating about $485 billion which is around 40% of the $1.2 trillion generated worldwide.
This is over $350 billion more than any other country in the world.
I understand that the United States is the biggest economy in the world, and so of course will have the highest spend on pharmaceuticals, but wow 40% of the world's market, while the United States is only 4.23% of the entire global population.
That is a lot of legal drugs being consumed by Americans.
Are Americans healthier because of this? I doubt it. I guess they need all these drugs to counter symptoms of their unhealthiness.
Let me switch gears to the big Pharma controlled esteemed medical journals, which are often cited by Pharma shills in the legacy media, to validate recommendations to use the latest fashionable and expensive new drugs promoted by the pharmaceutical companies.
These journals rarely print studies that go against the latest Pharma narrative and if they do, the studies are often quickly retracted.
Many of us who were paying attention during covid witnessed many studies showing positive outcomes from early treatment with inexpensive drugs like hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin. Only to see those studies quickly retracted. Then we find out later that the well meaning doctors and scientists who authored those studies were threatened by the medical mafia. They had to pull them to save their careers.
Not because they were poorly structured studies, but because they went against Big Pharma’s profit driven narrative. Like COVID vaccines “safe and effective” mantra we have heard for the last two years.
Now, the information gatekeepers can not withstand the flood of information because there have been so many studies done all over the world showing there are often beneficial effects to both HCQ and Ivermectin to treat covid.
Let’s go back in time just a little, let me read to you from Dr. Marcia Angell, former editor-in-chief of the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. This is not a conspiracy rag, the New England Journal of Medicine is the gold standard medical journal in the United States and she was the Editor in Chief.
What I am about to read is from over 10 years ago, think how much deeper Pharma’s tentacles have reached since she had the following to say.
“The boundaries between academic medicine — medical schools, teaching hospitals, and their faculty — and the pharmaceutical industry have been dissolving since the 1980s, and the important differences between their missions are becoming blurred. Medical research, education, and clinical practice have suffered as a result.”
“To a remarkable extent … medical centers have become supplicants to the drug companies, deferring to them in ways that would have been unthinkable even twenty years ago. Often, academic researchers are little more than hired hands who supply human subjects and collect data according to instructions from corporate paymasters. The sponsors keep the data, analyze it, write the papers, and decide whether and when and where to submit them for publication. In multi-center trials, researchers may not even be allowed to see all of the data, an obvious impediment to science and a perversion of standard practice.”
“[Drug] manufacturers typically prefer to work with academic medical centers. Doing so increases the chances of getting research published, and, more importantly, provides drug companies access to highly influential faculty physicians — referred to by the industry as ‘thought leaders’ or ‘key opinion leaders.’ These are the people who write textbooks and medical-journal papers, issue practice guidelines (treatment recommendations), sit on FDA and other governmental advisory panels, head professional societies, and speak at the innumerable meetings and dinners that take place every day to teach clinicians about prescription drugs.”
“Medical centers increasingly act as though meeting industry’s needs is a legitimate purpose of an academic institution…. Academic leaders, chairs, and even deans sit on boards of directors of drug companies. Many academic medical centers have set up special offices to offer companies quick soup-to-nuts service.”
“Increasingly, industry is setting the research agenda in academic centers, and that agenda has more to do with industry’s mission than with the mission of the academy. Researchers and their institutions are focusing too much on targeted, applied research, mainly drug development, and not enough on non-targeted, basic research into the causes, mechanisms, and prevention of disease.”
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Think about that, of course drug companies, in the business of making money, are not looking into “the causes, mechanisms, and prevention of disease” as Dr Angell says. Why? Because there is no profit in a cure and prevention.
Profit is in the disease and treatment! No one in Pharma is making money off prevention.
More disease, more opportunity, more demand for product, more sales, more profit. It’s good business.
Let me read another quick quote from Arnold Relman, also a former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine and a Harvard Professor, he said, “The medical profession is being bought by the pharmaceutical industry, not only in terms of the practice of medicine, but also in terms of teaching and research. . . . The academic institutions of this country are allowing themselves to be the paid agents of the pharmaceutical industry. I think it’s disgraceful.”
So how has this been allowed to happen?
Angell mentioned…
“The boundaries between academic medicine… and the pharmaceutical industry have been dissolving since the 1980s.”
What happened in the 1980’s? Well…The Bayh–Dole Act of 1980 for one, which permitted scientists, universities, and businesses to patent and profit from discoveries made through federally funded research.
The act completely eliminated the barriers between academia, science, industry and government oversight.
Public-Private partnerships ended up corrupting the science, academic and government oversight distancing - from the profit driven financial ties of Big Pharma.
After Bayh-Dole, both the universities and pharmaceutical industry were allowed to create business partnerships with the very government agencies that they are supposed to oversee on behalf of the public.
So the public watchdogs, “the police” so to speak, like the FDA, NIH and CDC, meant to protect the public, are actually in business with the industry they should be policing.
Why do you think there is a revolving door between FDA heads and Pfizer CEO’s for example?
Why do you think the FDA keeps recommending COVID vaccines, which anyone with half a brain can now clearly tell, it obviously does not do shit.
It’s all about the money! Show me the money! Say it louder! Show me the money!
To add to the scam perpetrated on all of us, just to rub it in everyone's face a little more, a lot of the research at public universities is publicly funded, that means taxpayer paid. It is your hard earned money paying for many of the for profit research grants.
The NIH spends about $41.7 billion annually in medical research for the American people. You don’t think some of these billions are not helping Big Pharma make a little more profit? Come on now!
You’ve probably heard by now, officials from CDC and NIH, and scientists from universities, along with pharmaceutical companies have patents together. Wasn't Senator Rand Paul hammering Dr. Fauci about this, as he smugly replied they do not have to disclose that type of information.
Many government bureaucrats, like Fauci, have a financial stake promoting and increasing the use of many expensive Pharma products.
That’s why Fauci and every other Big Pharma shill always tell us that cheap over the counter drugs, the ones they do not hold the patents for, or are not earning money off of, do not work.
Oh no! You need the new fancy, expensive drugs, like Remdesivir or Paxlovid in the case of our current big Pharma hyped medical emergency narrative, covid.
Remdesivir can cost as much as $390 per vial, or $2,340 for a 5-day course of treatment.
The new Paxlovid treatment course can cost as much as $530 bucks. Well, that is a little more reasonable.
No, no we peasants can not use cheap and effective Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine mixed with supplements like zinc, vitamin C and vitamin D to treat covid.
Those do not work!! The media repeats over and over.
I know from experience one can buy over the counter, for less than $20 in almost any third world country, enough Ivermectin and HCQ for months.
Vitamins and supplements too are inexpensive all over the world.
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As usual Big Pharma (the industry) colludes with big government (the police) and profits, while we the people get ripped off and left poorer and unhealthier.
It’s all a big fraud!
This same private-public partnership scam is highlighted too with today's recommended vaccine schedule.
Which promotes 72 vaccines before the age of 18. Think about that. Do kids appear healthier to you because of this?
Does it make sense to you that Pharma companies would push more and more vaccines, to make us healthier, when making us healthier in theory should make them less profit? Healthy people do not need treatments or therapies, right?
After all the covid vaccine lies pushed by Pharma, if you still believe and trust them with making any vaccine recommendation, I feel sad for you. Seriously.
Vaccines fall within a special liability category where the manufacturers have nearly full liability protection for their products, there is even a special court system for vaccine injury.
Think about it.
If vaccines are so safe, as safe as any other drug or treatment on the market, why do they have a special court system specifically set up to handle vaccine injury cases?
Let me read you directly from Wikipedia about the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program;
“The Office of Special Masters of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, popularly known as "vaccine court", administers a no-fault system for litigating vaccine injury claims.
These claims against vaccine manufacturers cannot normally be filed in state or federal civil courts, but instead must be heard in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, sitting without a jury.
The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP or NVICP) was established by the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA), passed by the United States Congress in response to a threat to the vaccine supply due to a 1980s scare over the DPT vaccine.
Despite the belief of most public health officials that claims of side effects were unfounded, (of course public health officials are going to say this, they are paid for by Pharma) large jury awards had been given to some plaintiffs, most DPT vaccine makers had ceased production, and officials feared the loss of herd immunity.”
Big Pharma was getting their ass sued off and losing so much money for faulty vaccines they had to close down production. They obviously lobbied the corrupt politicians, to create the vaccine court to save their asses.
God forbid sacred Big Pharma get caught up in lawsuits, lose money and have their stock price nose dive. Politicians can not let that happen to their brothers in scams and profit, Pharma.
If you have not already, read the book “Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and The Forgotten History” by Suzanne Humphries MD and Roman Bystrianyk.
It is a must read for anyone who cares to know the history of vaccine "science."
I do not understand it. Why on earth do people still trust these companies?
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Look at Pfizer. A major player, maybe the biggest player in the COVID vaccine market.
Let me share with you “The 10 Biggest Pfizer Lawsuits in Company History.”
I found this on lawyering.com. There will be a link in the description.
I am not going to read you all this, just highlight them.
10 - “In 2012, Pfizer agreed to pay $55 million for illegally promoting Protonix off-label… they were accused of misbranding the drug because it marketed the drug for an unapproved use.”
9 - “In 2009, Pfizer had given 200 Nigerian children an experimental anti-meningitis drug, Trovan. The drug caused the death of 11 children while the rest were left with disabilities such as deafness blindness, paralysis, and brain damage.” 11 out of 200 died! That is insane. These are fucking butchers!
8 - Faulty Heart Valves - $215 Million - about 350 deaths
7 - Chantix - $288 Million - anti-smoking drug that was linked to causing depression. 25 people killed themselves and Pfizer was sued over 2,700 times over the drug
6 - Rapamune – $490.9 Million - Kidney drug that was illegally marketed
5 - Medicaid Rebates- $784.6 Million - Fifteen US states filed complaints against Pfizer and its subsidiary Wyeth. Interestingly, Wyeth was involved in many of these cases
4 - Neurontin - This one was three different suits totaling – $945 Million
3 - Now we cross over into the billions - Prempro - a hormone replacement therapy drug - Pfizer ended up paying over $1.2 Billion to settle nearly 10,000 cases
2 - Number 2 we have Celebrex coming in at $1.5 billion
And finally…
1 -Bextra, Zyvox, Geodon, and Lyrica - $2.3 Billion - It was the largest healthcare fraud settlement in the history of the Justice Department. Pfizer and subsidiary, Pharmacia & Upjohn Company Inc., agreed to pay $2.3 billion after the subsidiary pled guilty to misbranding Bextra, purposing to defraud.
Pfizer has a proven track record of defrauding the public, this is fact.
Why do people keep putting their faith in companies like Pfizer?
I guess because they control the information war, they control the narrative.
Pfizer and other pharmaceutical companies practically control the media through ad revenue.
They control the government through political lobbying and insider trading.
They control the “esteemed” medical journals and scientists through basically a sponsorship program.
The public rarely hears a dissenting view point.
Let’s zero in on covid for a moment, the latest grand Pharma farce.
It was comical when the first vaccines arrived in the country where I live, there was this massive press conference at a hospital, full of local reporters and cameras. They filmed live on local TV the doctors opening the first box of vaccine vials.
The vaccines were in a special cooler with dry ice to keep them cold, vapor flowing out of the box like smoke at a magicians show. Doctor’s with full surgical gear and masked up as they handled the first vial like nuclear plutonium, holding it up in the air, swinging it slowly from side to side so everyone could get a good look at it, in all its glory. Everyone clapped and cheered hysterically. It was so dramatic.
“Oh the vaccine is going to save us!”
“Covid is finally over.”
“We will finally be rid of the evil virus soon.”
I remember thinking, what an idiotic production this is, like the vaccine was sent by God, like it was a chalice filled with Holy Water, raised up in front of the congregation by the high medical priests at the pharmaceutical alter.
At the very beginning of the pandemic I remember hearing about Hydroxychloroquine, and then later Ivermectin.
Do you? Do you remember?
Dr. Didier Raoult a French physician and microbiologist specializing in infectious diseases talking about using HCQ and Azithromycin for early treatment. He was demonized and gaslighted by the media.
The late, God rest his soul, Dr Zev Zelenko using HCQ and Zinc, then Ivermectin, curing 1000’s of people, with no hospitalizations. He was demonized and gaslighted by the media.
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Dr Stella Immanuel too, the African American doctor who gave a powerful speech in Washington DC with American Frontline Doctors. I shared her speech on social media at the time and had “liberal” friends commenting, friends who are all "Black Lives Matter" or "I stand with Ukraine" or "whatever the fucking latest virtue sinaling mind control bullshit is," calling her a “witch doctor.” WTF?
It’s interesting, if you search in Google for information about Dr Stella Immanuel, it’s all these articles about her under investigation by the Texas Medical Board for her false covid claims about HCQ, and some of her outlandish religious comments. You have to dig deep through the search results but if you do, you'll find out the investigation into her was dismissed without prejudice.
She withstood the attacks and is doing better than ever, still practicing medicine, still saving lives.
You know why there were practically no covid cases in Africa? People there on the dark continent eat HCQ and Ivermectin like candy for Malaria and other nasty parasites.
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President Trump amplified all these medical dissident voices on the world stage at multiple press conferences talking about doctors having positive results with inexpensive over the counter drugs, and he got skewered in the media over it. The media beholden to Pharma.
How dare the US president discuss an inexpensive option that may help save lives. We can't have that in the United States.
Doctors all over the world were reporting great results, keeping people out of hospitals, saving lives!
What did many US state surgeon generals and medical authorities do during the pandemic? They enacted rules to limit the prescription of HCQ and Ivermectin. Why?
Because they too are beholden to the merchants of death, big Pharma.
When all the good news was starting to leak out, what did Pharma do, they rushed to create poorly designed studies, to prove the doctors having results were wrong.
They designed the studies to fail by either starting treatment with HCQ or Ivermectin way too late, when the patients are nearly dead anyways, or by administering way too large of a dose, dangerous levels well beyond what is considered safe.
The studies were frauds!
They were meant to fail, meant to be used by the media to demonize the Doctors having real world, real clinical results.
The only answer, the only solution for covid and a return back to normalcy was through the needle of the new shiny profitable Pharma product… Their holy profit driven grail, the covid vaccine
Remember? Come on now! You remember don’t you?
The covid vaccine that would prevent us from catching covid entirely, oh wait.. That’s right, they changed it.
You could still catch covid, but you will not get as sick, since you're vaccinated. And if you take a bunch of boosters you'll be protected again.
Then it was… well you’ll still catch covid, still get just about as sick, but you will not spread covid, only the unvaccinated will spread it.. Those nasty filthy unvaccinated super spreaders
Then… well you will still get sick, you can still spread it.. ah fuck it! Just take the vaccine and keep your damn mouth shut! You racist conservative conspiracy theorist super spreading ass holes!
Just take it!
Take it!!!
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