Those of us who have long been describing the pharmaceutical industry as a "criminal racket" over the last few years have been wholly vindicated by recent news. Drug and vaccine manufacturer Merck was caught red-handed by two of its own scientists faking vaccine efficacy data by spiking blood samples with animal antibodies. GlaxoSmithKline has just been fined a whopping $3 billion for
bribing doctors, lying to the FDA, hiding clinical trial data and
fraudulent marketing. Pfizer, meanwhile has been sued by the nation's
pharmacy retailers for what is alleged as an "overarching
anticompetitive scheme" to keep generic cholesterol drugs off the market
and thereby boost its own profits.
The picture that's emerging is one of a criminal drug industry that has turned to mafia tactics in the absence of any real science that
would prove their products to be safe or effective. The emergence of
this extraordinary evidence of bribery, scientific fraud, lying to
regulators and monopolistic practices that harm consumers is also making
all those doctors and "skeptics" who defended Big Pharma and vaccines eat their words.
To defend Big Pharma today is to defend a cabal of criminal corporations that have proven they will do anything -- absolutely anything --
to keep their profits rolling in. It makes no difference who they have
to bribe, what studies they have to falsify, or who has to be threatened
into silence. They will stop at nothing to expand their profit base,
even if it means harming (or killing) countless innocents.
Let's take a look at recent revelations:
GlaxoSmithKline pleads guilty to bribery, fraud and other crimes
It what is now the largest criminal fraud
settlement ever to come out of the pharmaceutical industry,
GlaxoSmithKline has pleaded guilty and agreed to pay $1 billion in
criminal fines and $2 billion in civil fines following a nine-year
federal investigation into its activities.
• Routinely bribed doctors with luxury vacations and paid speaking gigs
• Fabricated drug safety data and lied to the FDA
• Defrauded Medicare and Medicaid out of billions
• Deceived regulators about the effectiveness of its drugs
• Relied on its deceptive practices to earn billions of dollars selling
potentially dangerous drugs to unsuspecting consumers and medical
patients
And this is just the part they got caught
doing. GSK doesn't even deny any of this. The company simply paid the
$3 billion fine, apologized to its customers, and continued conducting
business as usual.
By the way, in addition to bribing
physicians, GSK has plenty of money to spread around bribing celebrities
and others who pimps its products. The company reportedly paid $275,000
to the celebrity doctor known as "Dr. Drew," who promoted Glaxo's
mind-altering antidepressant drug Wellbutrin (
http://naturalsociety.com/top-radio-doctor-paid-by-glaxosmithkline-to...).
As the Wall Street Journal reports:
In June 1999, popular radio
personality Dr. Drew Pinsky used the airwaves to extol the virtues of
GlaxoSmithKline PLC's antidepressant Wellbutrin, telling listeners he
prescribes it and other medications to depressed patients because it
"may enhance or at least not suppress sexual arousal" as much as other
antidepressants do. But one thing listeners didn't know was that, two
months before the program aired, Dr. Pinsky -- who gained fame as "Dr.
Drew" during years co-hosting a popular radio sex-advice show "Loveline"
-- received the second of two payments from Glaxo totaling $275,000 for
"services for Wellbutrin."
(
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230393340457750503200685...)
Merck falsified vaccine data, spiked blood samples and more, say former employees
• "Falsified test data to fabricate a vaccine efficacy rate of 95 percent or higher."
• Spiked the blood test with animal antibodies in order to artificially inflate the appearance of immune system antibodies.
• Pressured the two virologists to "participate in the fraud and subsequent cover-up."
• Used the falsified trial results to
swindle the U.S. government out of "hundreds of millions of dollars for a
vaccine that does not provide adequate immunization."
• Intimidated the scientists, threatening them with going to jail unless they stayed silent.
Millions of children put at risk by Merck
In that document the two virologists say
they, "witnessed firsthand the improper testing and data falsification
in which Merck engaged to artificially inflate the vaccine's efficacy
findings."
They also claim that because of the faked
vaccine results, "the United States has over the last decade paid Merck
hundreds of millions of dollars for a vaccine that does not provide
adequate immunization... The United States is by far the largest
financial victim of Merck's fraud."
They go on to point out that children are the real victims, however:
"But the ultimate victims here are
the millions of children who every year are being injected with a mumps
vaccine that is not providing them with an adequate level of protection.
...The failure in Merck's vaccine has allowed this disease to linger
with significant outbreaks continuing to occur."
Merck's mumps viral strain is 45 years old!
According to the complaint, Merck has
been using the same mumps strain -- weakened from generations of being
"passaged" -- for the last 45 years! The complaint reads:
"For more than thirty years, Merck
has had an exclusive license from the FDA to manufacture and sell a
mumps vaccine in the U.S. The FDA first approved the vaccine in 1967. It
was developed by Dr. Maurice Hilleman, at Merck's West Point research
facility, from the mumps virus that infected his five year-old daughter
Jeryl Lynn. Merck continues to use this 'Jeryl Lynn' strain of the virus
for its vaccine today."
A complete medical farce
This information appears to show Merck's
mumps vaccine to be a complete medical farce. Those who blindly backed
Merck's vaccines -- the science bloggers, "skeptics," doctors, CDC and
even the FDA -- have been shown to be utter fools who have now destroyed their reputations by siding with an industry now known to be dominated by scientific fraud and unbounded criminality.
That's the really hilarious part in all this: After decades of doctors, scientists and government authorities blindly and brainlessly repeating
the mantra of "95% effectiveness," it all turns out to be total
quackery hogwash. Utterly fabricated. Quackety-quack quack. And all
those hundreds of millions of Americans who lined up to be injected with
MMR vaccines were all repeatedly and utterly conned into potentially harming themselves while receiving no medical benefit.
Intelligent, informed NaturalNews
readers, home school parents, and "awakened" people who said "No!" to
vaccines are now emerging as the victors in all this. By refusing to be
injected with Merck's vaccines, they avoided being assaulted with a
fraudulent cocktail of adjuvant chemicals and all-but-useless mumps
strains over four decades old. They protected their time, money and
health. Those who refuse to be physically violated by vaccines are, once
again, turning out to be the smartest people in society. No wonder they
also tend to be healthier than the clueless fools who line up to get
vaccinated every year.
Merck fraudulently misrepresented the efficacy of its vaccine and contributed to the spread of infectious disease, says lawsuit
It alleges that:
• [Merck engaged in] ...a decade-long scheme to falsify and misrepresent the true efficacy of its vaccine.
• Merck fraudulently represented and
continues to falsely represent in its labeling and elsewhere that its
Mumps Vaccine has an efficacy rate of 95 percent of higher.
• Merck knows and has taken affirmative
steps to conceal -- by using improper testing techniques and falsifying
test data -- that its Mumps Vaccine is, and has been since at least
1999, far less than 95 percent effective.
• Merck designed a testing methodology
that evaluated its vaccine against a less virulent strain of the mumps
virus. After the results failed to yield Merck's desired efficacy, Merck
abandoned the methodology and concealed the study's findings.
• Merck also engaged in "incorporating
the use of animal antibodies to artificially inflate the results...
destroying evidence of the falsified data and then lying to an FDA
investigator... threatened a virologist in Merck's vaccine division with
jail if he reported the fraud to the FDA."
• "Merck designed a testing methodology
that evaluated its vaccine against a less virulent strain of the mumps
virus. After the results failed to yield Merck's desired efficacy, Merck
abandoned the methodology and concealed the study's findings. [Then]
Merck designed even more scientifically flawed methodology, this time
incorporating the use of animal antibodies to artificially inflate the
results, but it too failed to achieve Merck's fabricated efficacy rate.
Confronted with two failed methodologies, Merck then falsified the test data to guarantee the results it desired. Having
achieved the desired, albeit falsified, efficacy threshold, Merck
submitted these fraudulent results to the FDA and European Medicines
Agency."
• "Merck took steps to cover up the
tracks of its fraudulent testing by destroying evidence of the falsified
data and then lying to an FDA investigator... Merck also attempted to buy the silence and
cooperation of its staff by offering them financial incentives to
follow the direction of Merck personnel overseeing the fraudulent
testing process. Merck also threatened... Stephen Krahling, a virologist
in Merck's vaccine division from 1999 to 2001, with jail if he reported
fraud to the FDA."
• "Merck continued to conceal what it
knew about the diminished efficacy of its Mumps Vaccine even after
significant mumps outbreaks in 2006 and 2009."
Obama administration has zero interest in actual justice
Another interesting note in all this is that under President Obama, the U.S. Dept. of Justice showed no interest whatsoever in
investigating Merck over the False Claims Act filed by two of its
former virologists. Despite the convincing evidence of fraud described
in detail by insider whistleblowers, the Obama Department of Justice,
led by gun-running Attorney General Eric Holder who is already facing
serious questions over Operation Fast and Furious, simply chose to ignore the False Claims Act complaint.
When evidence of criminal fraud was
brought before the U.S. Department of Justice, in other words, the DoJ
looked the other way with a wink and a nod to the medical crimes taking
place right under their noses. Who cares if tens of millions of children
are being injected year after year with a fraudulent mumps vaccine?
There's money to be made, after all, and exploiting the bodies of
little children for profit is just business as usual in a fascist nation
dominated by corporate interests.
Pfizer sued by retailers over anticompetitive scheme
Adding to all this, Pfizer has now been
sued by five U.S. retailers (pharmacies) who accuse the company of
monopolistic market practices. According to the lawsuit, Pfizer
conspired to prevent generic versions of its blockbuster cholesterol
drug Lipitor from entering the market. This was done to protect billions
in profits while making sure patients did not have access to more
affordable cholesterol drugs. Pfizer sells nearly $10 billion worth of Lipitor each year.
• Obtaining a fraudulent patent
• Engaging in sham litigation
• Entering a price-fixing agreement to delay cheaper generics
• Entering arrangements with pharmacy benefit managers to force
retailers to buy more Lipitor (chemical name is atorvastatin calcium)
No arrests or prosecution of Big Pharma executives
One of the most astonishing realizations in all this is that given all the criminal fraud,
bribery, misrepresentation, lying to the FDA, price fixing and other
crimes that are going on in the pharmaceutical industry, you'd think
somebody somewhere might be arrested and charged with a crime, right?
Nope.
To date, not a single pharmaceutical CEO,
marketing employee or drug rep has been charged with anything related
to all this fraud. In America, drug company employees are "above the law" just like top mafia bosses of a bygone era.
How insane is this, exactly? Consider this:
Imagine if YOU, an individual, went
around town bribing doctors, falsifying data, selling a fraudulent
product to the government, lying to regulators, engaging in anti-trade
price-fixing and threatening your employees into silence. What would
happen to you?
You'd probably wind up rotting in prison, the subject of an FBI investigation and a DoJ prosecution.
So why is it okay for a
multi-billion-dollar corporation to carry out these same crimes and get
away with it? Why are the CEOs of top drug companies given a free pass
to commit felony crimes and endless fraud?
I'll tell you why, and you're not gonna like the answer: Because America has become a nation run by crooks for the benefit of crooks. It's one big country club, and as comedian George Carlin used to say, "YOU ain't in it!"
If Big Pharma would falsify data on vaccines, what else would the industry do?
I hope you're getting the bigger picture
in all this, friends. If these drug companies routinely bribe doctors,
falsify data, defraud the government and commit felony crimes without
remorse, what else would they be willing to do for profit?
Would they:
• Falsify efficacy data on other prescription drugs?
• Exploit children for deadly vaccine trials?
• Invent fictitious diseases to sell more drugs?
• Unleash bioweapons to cause a profitable pandemic?
• Conspire with the CDC to spread fear to promote vaccinations?
• Silence whistleblowers who try to go public with the truth?
• Give people cancer via stealth viruses in vaccines?
• Destroy the careers of medical scientists who question Big Pharma?
• Force a medical monopoly on the entire U.S. population via socialist health care legislation?
But of course they would. In fact, the
industry is doing all those things right now. And if you don't believe
me, just remember that five years ago, no one believed me when I said
drug companies were engaged in criminal conspiracies to defraud the nation -- something that has now been proven over a nine-year investigation.
source:
worldtruth.tv
