Pharma

Pharma articles feature opinion and analysis of Big Pharma including impacts on economics, public policy, social life, and more.

Pharma articles at Brownstone Institute are translated into multiple languages.

Filter posts by category

serious harm

Sorry but Serious Harms from the Vaccine are Not Rare

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

Drug regulators and public health agencies have saturated the airways with claims that serious harms following covid vaccination are “rare.” There has been very little scrutiny of that claim by the media, and I could not find an instance where international agencies actually quantified what they meant by the term “rare” or provided a scientific source.

Sorry but Serious Harms from the Vaccine are Not Rare Read Journal Article

illusion of effective covid vaccine

The Bias that Creates the Illusion of an Effective Covid Vaccine

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

How could Covid vaccines have been highly effective in the frail and elderly? They were not. To understand why, we have to struggle with complicated biases in observational studies because we don’t have randomized trials with a mortality endpoint.

The Bias that Creates the Illusion of an Effective Covid Vaccine Read Journal Article

flow test

Why Did the UK Government Waste £4 billion on the Innova Lateral Flow Test?

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

These tests were proven to be ‘not fit for purpose’ with the FDA having significant concerns about their performance, which had not been adequately established. In addition, ‘labelling distributed with certain configurations of the test includes performance claims that did not accurately reflect the performance estimates observed during the clinical studies of the tests.’

Why Did the UK Government Waste £4 billion on the Innova Lateral Flow Test? Read Journal Article

AI ydroxychloroquine

My Conversation with AI Over Hydroxychloroquine

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

I apologize for any confusion or frustration that my previous responses may have caused. As an AI language model, I do not intentionally provide incorrect information. However, I understand that I made errors in my previous responses, and I apologize for any confusion or inconvenience that this may have caused.

My Conversation with AI Over Hydroxychloroquine Read Journal Article

totalitarianism-pharma

The Pharmacological Path to Soft-Core Totalitarianism

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

Soft-core totalitarianism was predicted by past seers who tried to warn us about where Western Civilization was headed. The leavening of tyranny with the intentional supply of banal distractions, creature comforts, and legalized drugs pepper their descriptions. They repeatedly describe a kind of semi-anesthetized, semi-tolerable dystopia.

The Pharmacological Path to Soft-Core Totalitarianism Read Journal Article

Israel deaths

Thousands of Averted Covid Deaths in Israel: Science Fiction

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

Lockdowns were futile and detrimental, mask mandates were futile, Covid vaccines were marginally beneficial, futile, or worse, and influential studies of vaccine effectiveness contain at least one major flaw, and probably more. These truths will become common knowledge when contemporary, brainwashed Covid scientists are replaced by a new generation of scientists with inquisitive minds.

Thousands of Averted Covid Deaths in Israel: Science Fiction Read Journal Article

The Tucker Carlson Departure From Fox and the Power of Big Pharma 

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

Carlson attacked the news media for taking “hundreds of millions of dollars from Big Pharma companies” and promoting “their sketchy products on the air and as they did that, they maligned anyone who was skeptical of those products.”  The facts demonstrate a chilling indication that legacy media remains beholden to Big Pharma, and their programming requires the approval of the figures that they are supposed to hold accountable.

The Tucker Carlson Departure From Fox and the Power of Big Pharma  Read Journal Article

big pharma

Big Pharma’s Co-Pay Coupon Racket

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

Drugmakers rely on shady promotional gimmicks to keep the cost of brand-name medicine high, and you’ve seen them in action. In the many, many, many television commercials you’ve seen for various drugs—and Big Pharma is the second largest advertiser by industry—consider how many mention a coupon the manufacturer offers. In fact, the share of brand-name prescription drug spending that included a coupon rose from 26 percent in 2007 to 90 percent in 2017.

Big Pharma’s Co-Pay Coupon Racket Read Journal Article

pharma liability

States Can Break Through Pharma’s Liability Shield 

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

State officials across the nation can help usher in the “new generation of Republican leadership” that Governor Sanders described. They can fight against the federal government’s insulation of Big Pharma, affirm their commitment to the justice of the Seventh Amendment, and champion the rights of their citizens against the widely distrusted, highly profitable industry. 

States Can Break Through Pharma’s Liability Shield  Read Journal Article

big pharma insulated from liability

How Government Insulated Big Pharma from Liability

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

The industry dedicated billions of dollars to manipulating Americans into taking its products while their government stripped them of their right to legal action; citizens, devoid of the ability to hold the companies accountable in the court of law, continue to subsidize the federal-pharmaceutical hegemon with their tax dollars. 

How Government Insulated Big Pharma from Liability Read Journal Article