News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Police in Spain have uncovered at least 2,200 famous people, including the President of PharmaMar, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in Spain, holding false COVID-19 vaccine certificates bought from a nurse.
Medicine has been corrupted by the corporate interests of large companies, which suppress negative trial results, conceal adverse effects and do not share raw data, according to a peer-reviewed article in the BMJ.
Dr John D. Flack, a retired Pharmaceutical Research Scientist, is appalled that these gene-technology Covid vaccines were not subject to the standard safety studies required for novel genetic-based medicines.
The Wellcome Trust has called for coronavirus to be “treated like the common cold”, as Israeli Prof Ehud Qimron slams the lockdown consensus as a failure based on myths and lies.
The White House Chief Medical Adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci has said that pharmaceutical companies will make booster shots designed to target the Omicron variant, even though this course of action is unnecessary.
by Cephas Alain In his final speech from the White House, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned that an arms race would take resources from other areas – such as building schools and hospitals. As interest has increased in the lab leak hypothesis for the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic it has cast the spotlight upon the behaviours of parts of the scientific community, including the role of peer review, conflicts of interest and the ownership and funding of professional journals. In turn, this can all be considered within national and international political and organisational contexts. ‘Big Pharma’ is also under scrutiny. This article seeks to explain the general nature of the potential threat posed by Big Pharma. It is not a new story. Indeed, it can be usefully discussed with the help of a 60 year-old Presidential address. On September 5th, 2021, LBC radio host and commentator Maajid Nawaz drew an analogy from Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Farewell Address to the nation as 34th President of the United States on January 17th, 1961. Maajid Nawaz suggested that the threat to democratic society described by President Eisenhower of the ‘Military-Industrial Complex’ has, at least to some degree, been supplanted by a ‘Big Pharma Industrial Complex’. He also suggested that the behaviours of governments in pursuing Covid related policies, such as the vaccination of ...
A new study in the Lancet finds that adverse events are 400% more common in real world patients than in trial participants for a standard blood pressure drug, calling the reliability of all drug trials into question.
Big Pharma employee: "Stock price performance is seen as a measure of their success, and it will trump anything else. So any new information that might damage the share price, if it can be stalled or quashed, will be."
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