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

Brownstone Institute / April 25, 2023 / Media, Pharma / 4 minute read

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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.

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Big Pharma’s Co-Pay Coupon Racket

Marc Ang / April 10, 2023 / Pharma, Policy, Society / 4 minute read

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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.

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States Can Break Through Pharma’s Liability Shield

Brownstone Institute / March 3, 2023 / Law, Pharma / 4 minute read

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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.

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How Government Insulated Big Pharma from Liability

William Spruance / February 9, 2023 / Law, Pharma / 6 minute read

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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.

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The Hypocrisy of Modern Pharmacological Ethics

Aaron Hertzberg / October 3, 2022 / Pharma / 9 minute read

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Pharmacists will fill prescriptions for medications without checking to see if the patient is on a different drug that is contraindicated to be taken together with the new drug, fill prescriptions for highly addictive opioids with black-box warning, and fill coprescriptions for highly addictive opioids. But they won’t fill prescriptions for Ivermectin or HCQ, two of the safest drugs ever developed if prescribed for Covid.

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FDA is using Covid Vaccines as a “Platform Technology”

Robert Malone / September 29, 2022 / Pharma, Policy, Technology, Vaccines / 7 minute read

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In the future, the FDA’s CBER will have to come to terms with the fact that the pre-clinical trials were completely inadequate, and yet they now have 50+ mRNA vaccine trials currently enrolling and over 150 more on the way based on that highly flawed pre-clinical data package. A quick search at clinicaltrials.gov yields documents the problem that they have created.

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Covid Exposed the Medical-Pharmaceutical-Government Complex

Mark Oshinskie / June 18, 2022 / Economics, Government, Pharma, Policy / 8 minute read

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The Med/Pharma/Gov establishment, including the NIH and CDC, hasn’t saved America during 2020-22. To the contrary, Covid interventions have worsened overall societal outcomes. These net harms should have inflicted—and, depending on longer-term vaxx effects, may yet inflict—a big black eye on the Medical Industrial Complex.

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The Anatomy of Big Pharma’s Political Reach

Rebecca Strong / April 8, 2022 / Media, Pharma / 38 minute read

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The public typically relies on an endorsement from government agencies to help them decide whether or not a new drug, vaccine, or medical device is safe and effective. And those agencies, like the FDA, count on clinical research. As already established, big pharma is notorious for getting its hooks into influential government officials. Here’s another sobering truth: The majority of scientific research is paid for by the pharmaceutical companies.

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New Hampshire Votes for Pharmaceutical Freedom

Jeffrey A. Tucker / March 18, 2022 / Law, Pharma, Policy / 6 minute read

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This battle is much larger than the legal status of Ivermectin. That’s just one symbol. What’s really at stake here is the idea of medical freedom itself. And freedom is a precondition for scientific inquiry and the search for the truth. It is also essential for public health. This is one of many lessons of the disastrously botched pandemic.

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The COVAX Delusion Reinforces Pharmaceutical Colonialism

David Bell / February 22, 2022 / Pharma, Policy, Vaccines / 7 minute read

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COVAX is a vehicle by which a very powerful and wealthy group seeks to impose a new paradigm on global public health, with centralized, pharma-based interventions replacing community-driven healthcare and national health sovereignty. We cannot afford to leave it as a side issue to the local battles that we face, or our successes will be pyrrhic. The corporatist, centralized health paradigm that COVAX epitomizes is a fog of delusion that seeks to ensnare us all.

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Saturday Night Fights at the Pharmacy

Pierre Kory / January 13, 2022 / Law, Pharma, Policy / 9 minute read

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The majority of pharmacists (not all!) have simply stopped thinking critically or devoting effort to review the evidence base, instead simply believing what they are told by their Boards (a.k.a. their “Ministries of Truth”). As if the insane numbers of ill omicron patients to care for is not challenging enough.

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The Corruptions of Pharma as a Service

Joakim Book / December 7, 2021 / Economics, Pharma, Public Health / 6 minute read

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But given the corruption in American politics, in its bureaucracy, and most importantly in its media and academic establishments, is it inconceivable to suggest that maybe Big Pharma wanted its share of the as-a-Service-revolution?

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