Posted on 11/26/2021 9:39:57 PM PST by ransomnote
[H/T Jane Long]
Funny story.
A month ago The New Yorker wrote a long piece on Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, who owns the Los Angeles Times and is the richest man in Los Angeles.
Dr. Soon-Shiong made his billions thanks to a chemotherapy drug called Abraxane, which is a repatented and dressed-up version of a nasty and somewhat effective drug called paclitaxel. Abraxane came out in 2005 and was among the first cancer drugs to cost a few thousand dollars a month - a price that seems almost quaint now, when some cost 10 times that much. (Because pharmaceutical companies are all about helping patients!)
Overall, the article wasn’t quite a hit piece, but it wasn’t favorable to Dr. Soon-Shiong - who by the way is an extremely serious Covid-phobe, a fact that doesn’t say much about his command of science. The writer, Stephen Witt, went into great and accurate detail about the history of Abraxane and Dr. Soon-Shiong’s many corporate machinations.
Witt even mentioned how “a comprehensive independent review, published in Annals of Oncology in 2006, concluded that Abraxane and similar drugs did “not really” offer a significant therapeutic benefit over established medicines, and termed them ‘old wine in a new bottle.’”
The article was deeply reported. Nicely written, too. No surprise, given where it ran. You may have heard of The New Yorker. For generations, it has been the most respected outlet in journalism, the place practically every serious reporter who can write a lick wants to end up.
Along the way Witt included this line: "A 2006 article in the New York Times reported that Abraxane was selling for forty-two hundred dollars per dose… Generic paclitaxel cost one-twenty-fifth as much.”
I remembered that article.
Because I wrote it.
Gee, I wonder where Witt found out about that Annals of Oncology article?
The point here isn’t that Witt plagiarized a bit of my piece, though he kinda did. That’s what magazine writers do.
The point here is that I could write a piece 15 YEARS AGO - about medicine and the games pharmaceutical companies play - that holds up well enough today for the New Yorker to steal from.
I am the same reporter now I was then.
Check that: I’m better now. I understand the games - and their stakes - better now than I ever have.
And I know that you all are depending on me in a way you shouldn’t have to, because coverage of Covid and the vaccines has been sucked into a political black hole that has made asking even the most basic questions next to impossible.
Thus I have the field of serious investigative journalism about the Covid vaccines - probably the most important medical story of our lives - more or less to myself. Believe it or not, I’d rather have much more competition.
I take this responsibility seriously. I am not hawking natural cures, I am not pretending that ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine is some cheap and easy solution, or that the vaccines sare some plot to kill 90 percent of the population. And probably 98% of the stories on this Substack are available to everyone for free. Which is a weird way to run a grift.
So, yeah, I’m doing my best. Which isn’t to say I don’t make mistakes. But those of you who have been reading me on Twitter and now here for the last 20 months - and that’s a lot of folks by now - know my record. Really, this little exercise in chest-thumping isn’t for you.
It’s for your friends and relatives and everyone you’re trying to convince.
Thanks for the info. I needed a P-47 cheer me up story this morning.
If you believe frauds like Fauci, Biden, Pfizer, Moderna and the rest over wise independents like Berenson, you’re the one being sucked in to the disinformation campaign.
Ivermectin works to greatly alleviate the symptoms of covid. How do I know?
Because I took it when I had covid and basically skated through the illness.
260,000,000 people in Uttar Pradesh, a state in India that has eliminated covid also seems to agree with me.
Is it a complete panacea? I doubt it but it’s sure better than a questionable vaccine that still leaves recipients wearing masks and living in fear of a virus.
Thanks. I was about to post that AHA/$hot link.
It’ll be interesting to see the $hot $hills argue with American Heart Association.
I like this part...the kooks here should take note.
I take this responsibility seriously. I am not hawking natural cures, I am not pretending that ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine is some cheap and easy solution, or that the vaccines are some plot to kill 90 percent of the population. And probably 98% of the stories on this Substack are available to everyone for free. Which is a weird way to run a grift.
Fauci should be in jail for Killing thousands....these drugs should have been given even if there were no studies...Covid was new ... you use what you have...
Add Madagascar to the list. 28,000,000 people, virtually no covid deaths. Wide use of Ivermectin.
Exactly!
They are probably trying to cover their butts now because the dam of medical staff exposure is breaking!
Please feel free to post as thread. I don’t see it out there yet. Want to make sure as many see it as possible.
This is monumental in the mandates and lawsuits.
I read that three times and still don’t really know for sure what content makes up the topic.
Our doctor put the entire family on Ivermectin when one of my sons tested positive for COVID. We all caught COVID. I’m guessing we got the ivermectin too late.
How does one get ivermectin? We’re you able to find someone willing to prescribe it for COVID, or did you have it on hand for another reason? Asking because I live in a state that seems to have something against actually treating COVID.
americasfrontlinedoctors.org
Given a choice between the way I was NOT TREATED when I had COVID, and adding several things myself. Including Ivermectin, Zithromycin to my arsenal of Zinc, Vitamins D3, C, K, NAC, Quercitin, B vitamins, Melatonin, Lysine, Grapeseed extract and Turmeric, along with an albuterol inhaler to my personal arsenal. As my kids say it I’m Good.
The newer nasal inhaler Xlear is amazing too. Add a great probiotic, and the vaccine is not needed in my house. I would like to have some Hydroxychloroquine, but Schweppes Tonic water with Quinine got me through the first time I was sick. I will survive or I won’t.
One thing I do know for sure is, I WILL NOT BE A GUINEA PIG FOR BILL GATES AND FAUCI, as big a mass murdering couple as the Germans and the Japs had on the medical front during WW 2.
The disease is real, it is a bad one. With that said, MOST of the deaths were preventable and went UNTREATED. The Medical Industrial Complex DID NOT GIVE A FLYING Phuk. My personal Doctor was great, even my local Hospital fell down real hard. Playing the “we’re overrun” game, while the elderly in Nursing facilities died by the hundreds.
Interesting--since I've seen it clearly reverse and eliminate cases that were already symptomatic.
Did you have high fevers--or 99-degree fevers?
The son who was our patient zero got pneumonia, as did my wife. They were hospitalized with oxygen.
My other son and I were asymptomatic. That may have been due to the ivermectin.
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