Deadly Medicines and Organized Crime- How Big Pharma has Corrupted Health Care

[Amanda]

Just found out about this book from this article https://off-guardian.org/2021/07/07/covid19-the-final-nail-in-coffin-of-medical-research/

Peter Gotzsche, who set up the Nordic Cochrane Collaboration, and who was booted out of said Cochrane collaboration for questioning the HPV vaccine (used to prevent cervical cancer) wrote the book. Deadly Medicine and Organised Crime [How big pharma has corrupted healthcare].
The book cover states:

The main reason we take so many drugs is that drug companies don’t sell drugs, they sell lies about drugs…virtually everything we know about drugs is what the companies have chosen to tell us and our doctors… if you don’t believe the system is out of control, please e-mail me and explain why drugs are the third leading cause of death.”


Got good reviews here https://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Medicines-Organised-Crime-Healthcare/dp/1846198844

http://lust-for-life.org/Lust-For-Life/_Textual/PeterCGotzsche_DeadlyMedicinesAndOrganisedCrime-HowBigPharmaHasCorruptedHealthcare_2013_378pp/PeterCGotzsche_DeadlyMedicinesAndOrganisedCrime-HowBigPharmaHasCorruptedHealthcare_2013_378pp.pdf

[ziero0]

You are where you are by the law of your being. So suggests James Allen in As A Man Thinketh.

Hucksters and con artists were around in Allen's time and before. Campsites used by Lewis & Clark can be located because they carried little pills containing mercury to relieve constipation.

These con artists sell hope. It makes them feel good. You take these "medications" for this reason:

TAKING MEDICATIONS MAKES YOUR PHYSICIAN FEEL BETTER.

You doctor is the junky and you are his proxy.

Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSBP) is a mental health problem in which a caregiver makes up or causes an illness or injury in a person under his or her care, such as a child, an elderly adult, or a person who has a disability. Because vulnerable people are the victims, MSBP is a form of child abuse or elder abuse

[monty]

…virtually everything we know about drugs is what the companies have chosen to tell us and our doctors…

Exactly. Since big pharma gained control of the medical schools we now have a generation of doctors who are trained to write prescriptions.

[keehah]

Corporate news is no longer filler for drug ads, corporate news itself has become drug ads, i.e. selling, even coercion of its viewers to accept and inject experimental vaccines.

Heck President Trump claimed fighting cold and flu season now “means the full power and strength of the military.” While Trump promoted more than just experimental vaccines, less risky and better performing anti-viral medications, still which of these officials who claim to work to improve American's health promote diet, exercise or vitamins?

thrillist.com: Why You See Such Weird Drug Commercials on TV All the Time (https://www.thrillist.com/health/nation/why-are-prescription-drug-advertisements-legal-in-america)

3/23/2016
[T]he United States is the only country, besides New Zealand, that legally permits "direct-to-consumer" pharmaceutical advertising...

[W]hile Ronald Reagan was telling Americans to "Just Say No," the feds cozied up to the pharmaceutical industry, and relaxed their legal restrictions. Direct-to-consumer marketing (DTCM), what you probably know as "drug commercials," was first given the seal of approval in the US in 1985.

Even though pharmaceutical companies were legally allowed to advertise new drugs directly to consumers, the law still required a full list of side effects; this mandate meant DTCM ads were mostly restricted to print, then the only medium that could provide enough space to tell people they might get night sweats and night terrors and night cravings and night terror cravings.

Drug commercials as you know them really only began in 1997, when constraints were further loosened, and new meds began to feature in television commercials. For its part, the FDA notes that no federal law has ever outlawed drug ads, justifying its progressively lax regulation.