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 ==== Predatory Pharmaceutical Trials ==== ==== Predatory Pharmaceutical Trials ====
 During the 1950s, [[:Gregory Pincus]] targeted poor women in [[:Puerto Rico]] for testing of oral contraceptives.((PBS/American Experience | [[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/pill-puerto-rico-pill-trials/|The Puerto Rico Pill Trials]])) During the 1950s, [[:Gregory Pincus]] targeted poor women in [[:Puerto Rico]] for testing of oral contraceptives.((PBS/American Experience | [[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/pill-puerto-rico-pill-trials/|The Puerto Rico Pill Trials]]))
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 +Pfizer stands accused of experimenting on orphan babies to test its [[:COVID-19 vaccines]].((Oct 1, 2021 | [[:The Expose]] | [[https://dailyexpose.uk/2021/10/01/breaking-pfizer-stand-accused-of-experimenting-on-orphan-babies-to-test-their-covid-19-vaccine/|BREAKING – Pfizer stand accused of experimenting on orphan babies to test their Covid-19 vaccine]]))
  
 ==== Farming Humans for Products ==== ==== Farming Humans for Products ====
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 ==== Dangerous Medication ==== ==== Dangerous Medication ====
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 +=== Swine Flu Vaccines, 1976 ===
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 +"Safe and effective" vaccines rolled out against swine flu in 1976 that subsequently turn out to be damaging to several hundred people, particularly with neurological disorders such as Guillain-Barre Syndrome.((https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/guillain-barre-syndrome/)). The eerie similarities are hard to ignore.(([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=_NELRAz2Xqo&feature=emb_logo | Video, 11 minutes]]))
  
 === Vioxx === === Vioxx ===
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 [[:Regulatory capture]] is the process by which the entities being regulated by society's chosen regulatory structures take control of those structures. If done stealthily, this results in fooling society into a broad sense of safety while giving immense power to those doing the capturing. The pharmaceutical industry devotes a greater proportion of its budget to lobbying and marketing, which seems to have resulted in greater levels of regulatory capture than with most industries. [[:Regulatory capture]] is the process by which the entities being regulated by society's chosen regulatory structures take control of those structures. If done stealthily, this results in fooling society into a broad sense of safety while giving immense power to those doing the capturing. The pharmaceutical industry devotes a greater proportion of its budget to lobbying and marketing, which seems to have resulted in greater levels of regulatory capture than with most industries.
  
 +In May, 2019, The Roosevelt Institute published a piece called 'The Cost of Capture: How the Pharmaceutical Industry Has Corrupted Policymakers and Harmed Patients' that //"explore(s) how drug companies influence policymakers and what this means for patients, the American health care system, and our economy. One of a series on Big Pharma, this issue brief defines “corporate capture,” or a form of corruption in which industry exerts undue influence over policymakers in regulatory and legislative bodies, often at the expense of the public interest or in contravention of democratic will."//((https://rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/cost-of-capture-pharmaceutical-industry-corrupted-policymakers-harm-patients/))
 ==== Revolving Door ==== ==== Revolving Door ====
  
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 === Study 329 === === Study 329 ===
 "In the early 2000s, based on Study 329, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) marketed Paxil (paroxetine) as safe and effective for children and adolescents when company executives were aware that a number of studies (all but Study 329 unpublished) had shown that the drug was no better than placebo and caused thought disturbance and suicidal behavior in some youngsters."((https://study329.org/ | Restoring Study 329: Scientific Integrity Through Data Based Medicine)) "In the early 2000s, based on Study 329, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) marketed Paxil (paroxetine) as safe and effective for children and adolescents when company executives were aware that a number of studies (all but Study 329 unpublished) had shown that the drug was no better than placebo and caused thought disturbance and suicidal behavior in some youngsters."((https://study329.org/ | Restoring Study 329: Scientific Integrity Through Data Based Medicine))
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 +[[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23521369/|Undue industry influences that distort healthcare research, strategy, expenditure and practice: a review]]
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 +[[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12533125/|Scope and impact of financial conflicts of interest in biomedical research: a systematic review]]
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 +[[https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200005183422024|Uneasy alliance - clinical investigators and the pharmaceutical industry]]
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 +[[https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMed010093?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov|Sponsorship, Authorship, and Accountability]]
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 +[[https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/356/bmj.i6770.full.pdf|Financial ties of principal investigators and randomized controlled trial outcomes: cross sectional study]]
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 ===== Medical Provider Capture ===== ===== Medical Provider Capture =====
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 [[https://www.cms.gov/OpenPayments|Open Payments]] houses a publicly accessible database of payments that reporting entities, including drug and medical device companies, make to covered recipients like physicians, nurses and other healthcare providers.  In 2020, Pfizer paid out over $738MM to hospitals and healthcare providers. [[https://www.cms.gov/OpenPayments|Open Payments]] houses a publicly accessible database of payments that reporting entities, including drug and medical device companies, make to covered recipients like physicians, nurses and other healthcare providers.  In 2020, Pfizer paid out over $738MM to hospitals and healthcare providers.
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 +===== Terrorism Funding Claims =====
 +In January, 2022, a U.S. appeals court revived a lawsuit against several pharmaceutical companies including [[Pfizer]] and [[AstraZeneca]] over allegations of contracts in [[Iraq]] that funded terrorism that resulted in the deaths of Americans during the Iraq War.((January 4, 2022 | Mike Scarcella | [[Reuters]] | [[https://news.yahoo.com/u-court-revives-lawsuit-against-193221732.html|U.S. court revives lawsuit against Pfizer, others on Iraq terrorism funding claims]]))((January 6, 2022 | Kevin Dunleavy | [[Fierce Pharma]] | [[https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/appeals-court-revives-lawsuit-against-pfizer-roche-astrazeneca-and-johnson-johnson-claims|Pfizer, Roche, AstraZeneca and J&J face newly revived lawsuit claiming they funded terrorism in Iraq]]))
  
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