Tag: pharma

  • Our Public Health System Is Failing

    Public Health Departments established with the intent to improve the health standards of the citizens of the US but instead are failing the 327 million people who live in this country. Unfortunately now public health prioritizes profit over people. Our communities get increasingly more ill while pharmaceutical profits increase exponentially. Anyone who takes the time to look at the big picture understands that this is true. These thoughtful words from Jennifer Margulis via Facebook

    This is what PUBLIC HEALTH has brought us: 

    • ❌ Toxic water in Flint, Michigan
    • ❌ An addiction crisis that results in 70,000 drug overdose deaths per year, nearly 70% from opioids
    • ❌ Some 600,000 unnecessary C-sections a year  
    • ❌ One of the highest maternal mortality rates of any industrialized country
    • ❌ 23 million Americans suffering from autoimmune conditions  
    • ❌ 1 in 36 children with ASD
    • ❌ Suicide rates rising, especially among young people and medical doctors , and a life expectancy rate that has fallen (slightly but enough to be considered statistically significant) for the past 3 years.

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    Public Health prioritizes profits over people, resulting in one of the most bloated vaccine schedules in the world.

    I love America. We all want the same thing: our children and our planet to survive and thrive. It pains me to see so many parents suffering because their children have environmentally induced iatrogenic brain and immune system damage.

    Public Health is failing the 327 million people who live in this country. Anyone who takes the time to look at the big picture understands that this is true.

    Having concerns about the CDC’s current childhood vaccine recommendations isn’t about being anti-vaccine. It’s about being in favor of children’s health, evidence-based medicine, science, and intact brains.

     Journalists, it’s time to report fairly and accurately on this topic.

    Politicians, responding to the failure of Public Health by trying to force for-profit medicine on every family is absurd.

    ‍⚕️ ‍⚕️ Doctors, enough already. Come out of the closet. We need you to fight for our children not for Big Pharma.

    ~Jennifer Margulis, PhD

  • Which diseases should you fear?

    What diseases do you FEAR your child might contract? Measles? Mumps? Leprosy? Wondering how many parents walk around daily concerned about their child contracting leprosy? It still exists- by the thousands in various parts of the world. The United States has roughly 200 new cases every year with over 6,500 cases of Hansen’s disease/Leprosy. Did you know that? I didn’t until I just looked it up. (See the source)

    Don’t you think it’s weird that there was hysteria over 31 measles cases (where no one died or was permanently harmed) and you hear exactly ZERO about 200 cases of leprosy and its long term health impact?  

    Everyone knows when there is a measles or mumps outbreak. It’s all over the local news. Healthy (yet unvaccinated) children are denied school. Parents are pushed to get ‘updated’ on vaccines.

    How do we not hear about these cases of leprosy? Why aren’t you walking around concerned about leprosy every day? Why aren’t you concerned about someone from another country bringing leprosy into the US and somehow exposing all of our most vulnerable to this illness?

    I’ll tell you why…You are afraid of what we vaccinate for because these illnesses are hyped up all of the time. It’s propaganda. You are told what to fear, so they can then sell you their product for profit.

    Measles and others is a concern for you – because you are told that it should be. But you don’t walk around fearing leprosy. Your children haven’t contracted it either.

    Funny how that all works, isn’t it?

    The only diseases we fear are the ones that a vaccine has been developed and marketed for. We never feared measles and mumps in the early 20th century… Because the media didn’t tell us to.

    Yes, there are vaccines for bacterial and viral diseases. Of course they are working on vaccines for hundreds of diseases that we are not yet afraid of because we haven’t been to do to so. 

    Did you know the newest vaccine requirement for Idaho is for a disease that affects 3 individuals in the state with a population of 1.6 million. A disease that is so exceedingly rare and already on a downward trend WITHOUT this extra vaccine requirement. It calls into question the motivation for the requirement. 

    Perhaps its because Idaho Legislators are Sold Out to Big Pharma?

    Learn More about the Meningitis Mandate

  • Medical School Professors Are Also PAID Consultants to Drug Companies

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    Harvard Medical School students like Kirsten Austad, left; Lekshmi Santhosh, Kim Sue and David Tian, members of the American Medical Student Association, object to the influence of drug companies in the schools educational curriculum.
    Jodi Hilton for The New York Times

    BOSTON — In a first-year pharmacology class at Harvard Medical School, Matt Zerden grew wary as the professor promoted the benefits of cholesterol drugs and seemed to belittle a student who asked about side effects.

    Mr. Zerden later discovered something by searching online that he began sharing with his classmates. The professor was not only a full-time member of the Harvard Medical faculty, but a paid consultant to 10 drug companies, including five makers of cholesterol treatments.

    “I felt really violated,” Mr. Zerden, now a fourth-year student, recently recalled. “Here we have 160 open minds trying to learn the basics in a protected space, and the information he was giving wasn’t as pure as I think it should be.”

    Mr. Zerden’s minor stir four years ago has lately grown into a full-blown movement by more than 200 Harvard Medical School students and sympathetic faculty, intent on exposing and curtailing the industry influence in their classrooms and laboratories, as well as in Harvard’s 17 affiliated teaching hospitals and institutes.

    They say they are concerned that the same money that helped build the school’s world-class status may in fact be hurting its reputation and affecting its teaching.

    The students argue, for example, that Harvard should be embarrassed by the F grade it recently received from the American Medical Student Association, a national group that rates how well medical schools monitor and control drug industry money.

    This article originally appeared at: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/business/03medschool.html?mwrsm=Twitter&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com.
  • Medical Science OR Medical Marketing?

    Medical Science OR Medical Marketing?

    Do you still believe that “medical science” is independent of the industry it reports on?!! Leading vaccine-maker MERCK admits paying for the creation of a new medical journal in Australia to promote it’s products while appearing to be an independent journal. 

    Current Editor-in-Chief of the prestigious medical journal The Lancet commented on this last year by saying: “Much of scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue…Science has taken a turn towards darkness.” — Dr Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief of leading medical journal The Lancet.”

    But news of a Merck-sponsored publication for doctors in Australia, that has come to light in a personal injury lawsuit there over Vioxx, has raised eyebrows in international medical publishing.

    From 2002 through 2005, the Australian affiliate of Merck paid the Australian office of Elsevier, an academic publisher, to publish eight compilations of scientific articles under the title Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine, a spokesman for Elsevier said. The Merck marketing compilation was unusual in that it looked like an independent peer-reviewed medical journal. It even called itself a “journal,” without indicating in any of the issues that Merck had paid for it.

    Elsevier is not the only publishing house which has been accused of sometimes blurring the line between advertising and science. This problem is particularly pronounced in medicine, where there is much money to be made from sales of drugs and medical devices. Drug companies push to publish positive results, saysGiustini, who runs a popular wiki for health librarians, because it is an effective means of getting the attention of doctors, who prescribe drugs and recommend medical devices. So it shouldn’t come as a complete surprise, he says, that a drug company (Merck, in the case of the fake Australian journal) funded a marketing publication in a form that looked like a journal. “It’s troubling and shocking but not completely new.”

    The effects of polluting medical literature with poor or suspect science are significant, says Giustini. Doctors are too busy to carefully assess every article about a new drug or device, he says, yet must now take that time because they are wary of accepting in good faith the authors’ conclusions.

    “I believe that many doctors reviewing the journal would likely believe it to be a peer-reviewed medical journal, and rely upon the contents as they would upon other journals they read,” said Robert J. Donovan, an expert witness for the plaintiff, according to a deposition statement.

    Its not just Australia the British Medical Journal is also guilty.

    The British Medical Journal published several scathing editorials against Dr. Andrew Wakefield whose research figures pointed to a possible connection of gut damage in children and the administration of MMR vaccine in the 90’s. Hardly an independent view as the BMJ admits it receives funding from both Merck and GSK, the makers of the MMR vaccines. 

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2734229/

  • Cures Act Kills Informed Consent

    Cures Act Kills Informed Consent

    December 7, 2016
    The “21st Century Cures Act” just passed the Senate and heads to Obama, who will sign it.

    HR 6 – 21st Century Cures Act which looked to be dead in the water was secretly thrown into HR 34 at the last minute – a bill that was actually for tsunami detection, forecast, warning, research, and mitigation to create a 900+ page bill. We have a runaway government, who’s interest is not the safety of the public, that is clear. (see more about the evolution of this bill from NVIC )

    What does it really mean?

    Vaccines will be fast -tracked and require LESS safety testing

    HR 34 allows the approval of drugs by the FDA vaccines “with the least BURDENSOME means.” Drugs should require the MOST rigorous testing, not the least burdensome means.

    Now your child’s vaccines are going to be developed with even LESS testing than before, and will all be fast-tracked to production. Government mandated vaccines and an exponentially growing vaccine schedule the vaccine manufacturers will make lots and lots of money.
    Keep in Mind: The vaccine manufacturers having ZERO legal liability for their products, and 300 new vaccines in the development pipeline – the pharmaceutical industry literally cannot lose, no matter how many lives are destroyed.  

     “The 21st Century Cures Act is a drug company stockholder’s dream and a consumer’s worst nightmare,” said Barbara Loe Fisher, NVIC Co-founder and President. “Making experimental drugs quickly available for the sick and dying, who voluntarily choose to use them, is one thing, but Congress should not be greasing the skids to license experimental vaccines that government will recommend and legally require healthy children and adults to use. It is a prescription for disaster.”

    Medical testing no longer requires informed consent. 

    Even more ominous is the section 2263 the elimination of informed consent. What is informed consent ? Permission granted in the knowledge of the possible consequences, typically that which is given by a patient to a doctor for treatment with full knowledge of the possible risks and benefits.  Now all patients receiving treatment by any medical doctor may be, WITHOUT THEIR KNOWLEDGE, enrolled in a clinical trial for drugs and devices as long as there is “minimal risk” to the patient and the practitioner, and as long as there are “safeguards”.  The effect of this act is to leave “safety” to guesswork and rationalization, and to allow the medical establishment to assess harm in drugs and devices in a manner in which

    (1) the patients are not informed that they are in a clinical trial, and
    (2) they have no right to say “No” to being part of an experiment.

    If they are harmed during the trial, they cannot know that they should sue because any ill effect of the experimental drug or device cannot be traced to the experiment. This allows the medical establishment to experiment on the population with impunity. 
    The act does not specify “minimal risk”.

    This provision makes no sense logically, or scientifically, and is dangerous. We use clinical trials not only to study the efficacy of drugs and devices, but also to determine their safety profiles.

    Please watch the video of Senator Elizabeth Warren speaking out against this bill (in the first comment of this post), for more information. 

    This bill along with Obama’s November 4th Executive Order, The Global Health Agenda and the CDC’S new proposed rule in October to detain and quarantine anyone, any city, indefinitely and to release them only conditionally are not coincidences. These are all movements against our Health Freedom, our Human Rights including the Nuremberg Code and they take away our Informed Consent.