I don't know why no one trusts big pharma.. They just want to keep us all safe..
AHH NO. It can't be.. Surely not!!
Let me google this at once.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...agrees-to-criminal-plea-idUSTRE5813XB20090902
Hm, it looks ok! The article mentions "marketing fraud"..
I also see this on page 1.
USA TODAY TO THE RESCUE!
*FACT* *CHECK*
BOOM
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/...st-pfizer-alleged-marketing-fraud/4857499001/
Fact check: Resolved lawsuits against Pfizer alleged marketing fraud, data manipulation
PHEW.
That was a close one. It's just "marketing fraud" and "data manipulation".
And if we check page 1 of google and read all the articles, we can clearly see that it was just a bit of misleading marketing. Nothing to be concerned about. We've all been there.
Ok, let's cut the bullshit.
This is where it ends for more people and they go back to netflix and popcorn.
But let's dig a little deeper.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-09-03/pfizer-fine-should-act-as-deterrent/1417140
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Pfizer was also accused by authorities of paying kickbacks to doctors to prescribe its drugs.
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The practices were exposed by former Pfizer sales representative and Gulf War veteran, John Kopchinski.
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In a statement he said: "In the army I was expected to protect people at all costs. At Pfizer I was expected to increase profits at all costs, even when sales meant endangering lives. I couldn't do that."
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Pfizer says it regrets its past actions and will learn from them.
" <-- Really?
https://www.corpwatch.org/article/pfizer-admits-bribery-eight-countries
https://europepmc.org/article/PMC/2875889
This is on europepmc.org
Not some shady conspiracy site.
The author -
https://europepmc.org/search?query=AUTH:"Robert G Evans"
Here he is -
https://chspr.ubc.ca/about/people/core-faculty/robert-evans/
Is this a kooky conspiracy theorist?
Let's see.
Emeritus Professor at Vancouver School of Economics.
Internationally esteemed health economist.
Recipient of Canada's highest honor for lifetime achievement.
Officer of the Order of Canada.
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Fellow of Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
Do I need to go on?
Now that I have established a SOLID and highly qualified author. Much more so than some clown at USA TODAY.
Let's look at some of his quotes from the article about Pfizer being corrupt. -
https://europepmc.org/article/PMC/2875889
" Pfizer has been a "habitual offender," persistently engaging in illegal and corrupt marketing practices, bribing physicians and suppressing adverse trial results"
Illegal and corrupt marketing practices?
Bribing physicians?
Suppressing adverse trial results?
Come on, folks. When is it going to hit you hard on the face who you're dealing with?
Why do you trust page 1 of google?
Why do you trust the crap written by mainstream media? It's all a lie. It's all funded propaganda.
Going a little deeper isn't hard. Just look for qualified people talking about things. Research those people like I did above. It's pretty undisputable. Are you going to try and discredit Robert G Evans? Do you believe USA TODAY's fact check?
Here's another quote
"This noble language might suggest that Omnicare is “an eleemosynary outfit.”
2 Not so. It is a strictly for-profit corporation (OCR-N on the NYSE) like Johnson & Johnson (JNJ-N), with the mission – the one for which its executives are paid – of providing “enhanced shareholder value” "
"Payments from J&J to Omnicare to encourage pharmacists to promote the prescribing of Risperdal were a win–win strategy for both corporations."
"The charges against J&J have not been proven in court, nor are they likely to be. Corporations prefer not to go to trial; rather, they negotiate a settlement that will permit them to continue denying wrong-doing while paying to make the charges go away."
"Omnicare, as it happens, settled related charges last November for a payment of $98 million to the United States and state governments (
Associated Press 2010); with that case settled, J&J will probably choose the same option. The only real issue in dispute will be the size of the penalties."
Say what? Omincare made a payment of $98 million to the US and state government?
Here's the link to the citation -
http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20100115.escenic_1432378/BNStory/Business/
Oh look at that. It's been deleted and 301's to the homepage. Oh well.
Here's one that's still live. Let's see if this can be FACT CHECKED by USA TODAY so we can all get back to netflix and popcorn.
https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2003/June/03_civ_386.htm
justice.gov. Strong. This will require some extra wacky FACT CHECKER powers.
"The settlement announced today resolves HCA's civil liability for false claims resulting from a variety of allegedly unlawful practices, including cost report fraud and the payment of kickbacks to physicians."
Ah there we go.
FALSE CLAIMS.
Yes.. Let's settle. We don't want to go to court to dispute these false claims. We'll just settle, and in this case with a non-guilty plea.
Just read the article, folks. It's on justice.gov for christ sake. I'm doing my best to give you SOLID sources and not kooky conspiracy blogs.
Wake up. Be free. Be loving and stop the division. We are all one family.