Dirty Tricks by (Big Pharma) Drugs Manufacturers

Dirty Tricks by (Big Pharma) Drug Mfrs

There’s no thing as a corporation with a heart!  No large corporation ever gave it’s workers anything they weren’t forced into by competition or unionization. That’s a myth fostered by big corporations like Big Pharma etc.

To Big Pharma, selling their products is much more important than killing a “few” customers.  How dirty can you get?  It isn’t enough that drug companies use phony test reports to get their drugs approved by the FDA.  And, Big Pharma has managed to get a majority of drug manufacturers workers on the FDA board that approves all new drugs! (Yes, the FDA, originally formed to protect us, now only protects Big Pharma in effect.)  

Nor, is it enough that they use more phony reports to fool consumers (and MD’s) into believing that vitamins aren’t needed.  If that’s so, why are drug companies all over the world trying to take over such?  You know that supplements will increase in price if that happens!

Did you know that third year medical school students get gifts and even money every month?  Big Pharma also spends thousands of dollars every month on every MD in various forms ranging from outright bribery, to “free” samples.  That’s bribery, but it’s spun again to look better.  Many of the better MD’s are starting to refuse such samples, and not allow drug salespeople in their office.  All too few.

In my not so humble opinion, what I found out recently is the ultimate in “spin”, worthy even of Carl Rove. The drug lobby PhRMA actually commissioned some authors to write a “fiction” novel about some terrorists in Canada that were poisoning drugs purchased by Americans.  The book deal fizzled, and the authors reportedly were offered $100,000 to keep the deal quiet.  This was first reported by Lloyd Grove, a columnist for the New York Daily News,

It was also reported that this same lobby had its budget increased by one million bucks just to discourage US citizens from buying Canadian drugs.

Of course, we can all understand why Big Pharma wants to discourage drug buying in Canada.  Those drugs are sold there at half or less of the US price.  This loses profit, and it also makes the truth about drug actual costs pretty plain to all.  Drug companies are among the richest in the country, and getting richer all the time.

They keep trying to again “spin” the truth by claiming that this excessive profit is “needed” for research for new drugs.  Just a little independent research on this shows that most drug companies spend more on advertising drugs than they do on research.
And that doesn’t even need to include the huge amounts that go to “literally bribe” MD’s.

Here’s an interesting sidelight to that book.  Supposedly it was “dumbed” down because the lobby knew that women bought most of the drugs, and they think that women are dumb?  Who’s dumb now?

Is Big Pharma evil enough and greedy enough to actually hire such a scenario?  If so, how would anybody know whether it was terrorists or just the “normal” drug deaths for a long time?

Did you know that the fourth leading cause of death in the US is prescription drugs?  This was the statistic quoted in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Actually, this number is much higher according to Dr. Gary Null in his book “Death by Medicine”.  (This article is available by typing “Death by Medicine” into a search engine.)

Did you also know that drug deaths have doubled since the FCC allowed drug TV and radio advertising with the “spins” on side effects minimized cleverly?  If you realized and listened to such drug ads, paying no attention to the visual effects, and the soothing voices, would you really buy “might cause death” which is what they have to say, but they spend a lot of money disguising that so that it seems not so bad. 

Now, let’s look at the scenario of such a book.  First of all, virtually all the drugs sold from Canada are from US Drug Firms.  They are packaged safely and it would be very difficult to insert poison into them.  One way would be to form a new Canadian firm that sells drugs.  These could now be opened and poisoned, and then sold.  Sooner or later, such deaths would be detected, and the tracing back to the manufacturer, and then to the “new” company.  This company would be shut down, and probably some people would go to jail (I don’t count on that).

So, whose brainchild was this?  I don’t know, but his kind seems to be replicating more and more.  Slogans are becoming more than truth, and the country is worse for it. 

Adding to Big Pharma’s accomplishments is their success in not only the FDA, but also with the Center for Disease Control (CDC).  Did you know that the Bush Administration and the CDC as well as the FDA (and Big Pharma) all knew that mercury (in childhood vaccines as a preservative to lengthen shelf life was causing autism in children years before it became known to the public.  That’s how strong Big Pharma is.  They believe that destroying infants and children lives (and bankrupting many parents) rather than immediately recalling products and losing money is a better choice! 

Unless we stop these huge corporations that would rather kill people than lose money, we are not safe.  Big money is power in too many ways, and power corrupts!