Tag: Big Pharma

The boundary between liberal democracy and draconian dictatorship proved to be virus thin, writes Professor Ramesh Thakur. Tools of repression became uncomfortably familiar on the streets of Western democracies.

Hydroxychloroquine was dismissed as a Covid treatment early on and its supporters were censored. But now a new peer-reviewed study finds the cheap drug dramatically cuts Covid mortality after all.

Sir Jonathan Van-Tam's move from the U.K.'s pandemic team to pharma giant Moderna has reignited discussions about Government officials moving to the private sector and the potential misuse of information.

Safety concerns with the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine have been sparked by revelations of the cosy relationship between BioNTech and the German regulator which approved it for release.

What was there to like in the Covid era, asks Ramesh Thakur. Billions, if you were Big Pharma. Unchecked power, if you were Big State. More control over the world's governments, for the WHO. Misery for the rest of us.

The 'pandemic' is the greatest medical scandal of the century caused by pharmaceutical companies whipping up panic and unduly influencing the WHO, said the Council of Europe Health Chief – in 2010.

An FOI reveals that the Australian Government made over 4,000 requests to digital platforms to take down content related to Covid, in the latest example of the Censorship Industrial Complex in action.

How do you get people to take expensive medicine against something that hits them on average once a year and lasts a few days, like a cold? By manufacturing a pandemic, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.

The trouble with waiting 21 days after the jab to count someone as vaccinated is that it can make even a placebo appear to have 95% vaccine efficacy, say Prof Norman Fenton and Prof Martin Neil.

Even on conservative assumptions, a '90% relative effectiveness' for a vaccine is just a 0.00027% absolute effectiveness for a young person. This was not properly explained, undermining informed consent.