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Q ~ Trust Trump's Plan ~ 05/21/21 Vol.352, Q Day 1302
qalerts.app ^ | 5/21/2021 | FReeQs, FReepers, and vanity

Posted on 05/21/2021 6:02:38 AM PDT by ransomnote



Q is the result of the sacrifices and commitment of countless patriots to win back our captured country from the Deep State and achieve the transformation President Trump promised in this campaign video. President Trump has said the awakening of the public is key to this transformation.

Q describes this awakening as follows: 

"The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding 'mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure future events through transparency and regeneration of individual thought (breaking the chains of ‘group-think’), but, more importantly, aid in the construction of a vehicle (a ‘ship’) that provides the scattered (‘free thinkers’) with a ‘starter’ new social-networking platform which allows for freedom of thought, expression, and patriotism or national pride (the feeling of love, devotion and sense of attachment to a homeland and alliance with other citizens who share the same sentiment).

When ‘non-dogmatic’ information becomes FREE & TRANSPARENT it becomes a threat to those who attempt to control the narrative and/or the stable. 

When you are awake, you stand on the outside of the stable (‘group-think’ collective), and have ‘free thought’. 

"Free thought" is a philosophical viewpoint which holds that positions regarding truth should be formed on the basis of logic, reason, and empiricism, rather than authority, tradition, revelation, or dogma. 

When you are awake, you are able to clearly see. 

The choice is yours, and yours alone. 

Trust and put faith in yourself. 

You are not alone and you are not in the minority. 

Difficult truths will soon see the light of day. 

WWG1WGA!!!" ~ Q (#3038)

The video, Qanon is 100% coming from the Trump Administration, is just one of many excellent responses to the all-important question, "Whom does Q serve?"

Q Boot Camp is a quick, condensed way to learn the background and basics about the Q movement. 

Q has reminded us repeatedly that together, we are strong. As the false "narrative" is destroyed and the divisive machinery put in place by the Deep State fails, the fact that patriotism has no skin color or political party is exposed for all to see. 

In the battle between those who strip us our constitutional rights, we can't afford to let false divisions separate us any longer. We, and our country, will be forever made stronger by diligently seeking the truth, independence and freedom of thought.

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To: humblegunner

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a post of yours that actually had anything of substance.

You post against people advertising their own website or channel, okay got it.

And you post insults, as well as occasional comments defending the deep state, anti-American narrative.

That’s it.


2,341 posted on 06/02/2021 10:31:13 AM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: bagster

I think you now understand what I was trying to tell you before your emotions took control.


2,342 posted on 06/02/2021 10:34:07 AM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: All

Mike Lindell has accomplished great things for our country.

In the course of time, those who defended making fun of Lindell will likely regret it and wonder about their own motives.


2,343 posted on 06/02/2021 10:41:53 AM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: reasonisfaith; bagster
And you post insults, as well as occasional comments defending the deep state, anti-American narrative.

That’s it.


2,344 posted on 06/02/2021 11:00:05 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner

The great limitation of communists is not knowing why they believe it.

In your case, it probably includes not knowing that you believe it.


2,345 posted on 06/02/2021 4:07:32 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: reasonisfaith

AH! So I’m a commie now.

Anybody sassing you must be a commie.

You’re pretty special.


2,346 posted on 06/02/2021 4:10:38 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner

No, that’s not the case at all.

You jumped into a conversation you weren’t ready for.

Your history of supporting anti-American ideas speaks for itself.

I would ask you to reconsider this approach. There really isn’t any good reason to support communism, not from a practical standpoint or a moral one.

I’ll give you time to think about it.


2,347 posted on 06/02/2021 4:21:13 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: reasonisfaith

You keep on making dumbass assumptions.
Even if you make 188 of them, they’re still just dumbass assumptions.


2,348 posted on 06/02/2021 4:27:51 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner
This guy just may be the oddest duck on FR of them all. And there's plenty to go around.

p.s. You commie!


2,349 posted on 06/03/2021 3:04:22 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: humblegunner

On a scale of 0 to 100 measuring expectation of intellectual quality, where 100 represents expectation of highest quality and 0 represents lowest, what number would you suggest I use to formulate my expectation of the quality of your commentary on this website?


2,350 posted on 06/05/2021 11:44:17 AM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: reasonisfaith
what number would you suggest I use to formulate my expectation of the quality of your commentary

I wouldn't.

You do you.

Be free. Frolic about making assumptions.

If you don't understand the program, the lack is not of my doing.
Nor is it my job to correct it. You're just unfortunate.

2,351 posted on 06/05/2021 11:56:01 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: numberonepal

***Nick Filet***

Went there in Orlando Saturday a week ago. Great meal - but a bit pricey for fast food. Will re-visit from time to time. I mentioned you - but not by screen name.


2,352 posted on 06/06/2021 2:06:37 PM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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(h/t  reformedliberal)
 
The following is the computer-generated transcript of a 40 minute video about corruption in medical journals, studies, pharama etc. Computer generated transcripts can lack punctuation and may have incorrect words or spellings of words.
 
 
the pharmaceutical industry
is manufacturing
all of these medical journal articles
behind the scenes
for basically marketing purposes and i
was astounded you know because i had
this enormous trust
in medical journals you have to realize
that a clinical trial on a blockbuster
drug
published in a top medical journal with
the branding
of a key opinion leader that key opinion
leaders university affiliation
is worth an enormous amount of money in
terms of
confidence what has happened
in something like the past 20 or 30
years especially with blockbuster drugs
is that we're sold a lot of
pharmaceuticals where the
risk benefit ratio is not
in favor of taking the drug and we have
all sorts of instances where people who
really didn't need to be on these drugs
took these drugs and then had serious
adverse events
so disease mongering is a marketing
scheme
of pharmaceutical companies to
persuade us to use fear
and to use our trust and science in an
extremely deceptive way
in order to persuade us to go on on
different kinds of drugs
the oligarchy of corporations here has
basically usurped cherished institutions
of democracy which involve
checks and balances in the system
but also scientific integrity
so who's looking out for scientific
integrity here's the problem
we're talking with lehman mchenry who's
the co-author of the illusion of
evidence-based medicine
so lehman if you could just tell us who
you are and a little bit about what it
is that you do
i'm a professor emeritus in philosophy
and bioethics at california state
university northridge and i'm a
consultant for a law firm called bomb
headland
eristian goldman in los angeles
california
so this book that you just mentioned
grew out of
a series of cases that i worked on as a
consultant with baum hedland
and in particular i teamed up with
a psychiatrist called john giordini in
australia
and we wrote a number of articles
together
on the subjects of corrupted
industry sponsored clinical trials
and eventually we thought that we had
enough for a book
and so the illusion of evidence-based
medicine
uh was finally produced after
uh trying to find a publisher that that
had the courage
to move forward with it and i want to
get back to what is included in that
book but
for the time being i'd like to go back
to an article
that you wrote a research piece that you
titled of
sofas and spin doctors industry
sponsored ghost writing and the crisis
of academic medicine
so first of all let me ask you what is
medical ghostwriting
how does it work and how did you
discover that it was happening
i was working on a case where lexus
smith klein
was in battle with eli lilly over
the competition to sell their top
antidepressants and one of the main
issues that came up out of this was
the problem of withdrawal or what they
call discontinuation
syndrome and one of the lawyers asked me
to have a look at
some documents that were produced in the
case
uh moving into discovery and trial and
many of them
were medical journal articles that were
published about this problem of
withdrawal particularly for paxil i came
back to him
and i said you don't have a case the the
medical literature is
firmly against you and he said
that's all ghost written don't you get
it
[Music]
the pharmaceutical industry is
manufacturing all of these medical
journal articles
behind the scenes for basically
marketing purposes
and i was astounded you know because i
had this enormous trust
in medical journals and i thought you
know of all the kinds of
literature that's published of
scientific literature that's published
surely
the the medical journals must be the
most rigorous and the most reliable
and it turns out the opposite is the
case and now i'm firmly of the opinion
that medical journals for the most part
should not qualify as scientific
journals
because not only because of the problem
of of ghostwriting but also
because of the problem that the peer
review system is so weak
that we really can't trust what's going
on out there in the medical literature
so describe to for us what exactly is
ghostwriting how does the process work
in my book i've identified about
four different degrees of
ghost riding but let's take the worst
case scenario
[Music]
a pharmaceutical company will conduct a
clinical trial
and they will hire a medical
communication
company to write the manuscript for the
trial
that person who actually writes the
manuscript is working for him a kind of
template he or she will be a sort of
freelance medical writer
as they are called the pharmaceutical
company
pays the medical communication company
to produce
this draft of the manuscript and then
once the draft is completed it goes to
the sponsor company namely the
pharmaceutical
company all of the marketing executives
to approve
that the manuscript is on message with
their marketing
agenda then they
will find what they call authors
[Music]
and these are what we call honorary
authors namely academics
at university hospitals and academic
research centers
who will be paid to put their names on
these papers
they might have had something to do with
a clinical trial they might have had
something to do with the design of the
trial
but they basically didn't do any of the
writing of the manuscript so
all of the marketing messages are
planted into the manuscript before
the so-called author of the paper
reviews it
and agrees that it would be published in
his or her name
and so that's the worst case scenario
here for
a medical ghostwriting and i think it's
just equivalent to fraud
because the readers of the medical
journals
are led to believe that that this
is a piece of research that is
guaranteed by the first author of the
manuscript and all of the other people
in the paper
and it very often turns out to be the
case that none of these people
have actually reviewed the data all
they've done is read the paper
and agreed to put their name on it you
came up with a phrase
the circle of evidence yes what does
that mean exactly
the the circle of evidence is my term
for
uh how if you look at a medical journal
article and you think the medical
journal article
is uh a genuine piece of science
and then that genuine piece of science
is used for
marketing purposes but it turns out that
if the paper
is ghost written it's produced by the
marketing
department in the first place so
marketing just refers us to marketing
and we go around in a circle
you quote richard horton who's the
current editor of the landsat is saying
that the medical journals quote
have evolved into information laundering
operations for the pharmaceutical
industry
so what did he mean by that if you think
of uh
money laundering is something that you
know criminals do
you've got dirty money that comes out
clean money
now in this case what you've got is
dirty manuscripts
that is to say ghost written manuscripts
that
are fraudulently misrepresenting the
science
and they're coming out clean at the
other end of the process
being produced in the medical journals
and looking like genuine respectable
pieces of scientific work
[Applause]
in the pharma materials they talk about
key opinion leaders
yes so the key opinion leader is given
lead authorship even though
they do not deserve that they're
effectively
uh signing their name to someone else's
work and
that someone else there's a go-between
of these medical communications
companies which
seem to me to basically just be kind of
medical marketing
pr firms is that exactly they're
essentially plagiarizing
uh the copy of the pharmaceutical
company
itself is that correct yeah i mean it's
plagiarism
in the sense of of you know the
so-called person who's taking authorship
credit
uh did not write this paper at all
that person might have reviewed the
manuscript and made a you know a couple
editorial
uh suggestions but but for the most part
that's about it
so plagiarism is means stealing in this
case sort of stealing credit you know
now we
look down upon this students at
university
students at university could fail a
course or be expelled from the
university for plagiarism
but it seems to be something that
flourishes
amongst professors which once this sort
of thing gets out
is very demoralizing i take it the key
opinion leaders so-called are
compensated for their work yes
p opinion leaders is a is a sort of term
of flattery
that the industry uses to lure
uh medical doctors into their marketing
agenda their speaker programs
things of this sort and they they are
compensated very handsomely
for their advice their opinion
but also they typically become the
so-called authors of these papers
now in this bizarre world of medical
communications
you have this strange distinction
between
a writer and an author which i never
have been able
to make any sense out of but uh for them
the writer is the person who drafted the
manuscript and that person's name
might be on the cover page when it's
actually produced and it's
submitted for approval to the
pharmaceutical industry
and it's only subsequently that that
page comes off
and another page comes in that includes
the so-called author
that's amazing so there's another step
that kind of almost the crucial step in
this process is the submission
to the journals so how does that work
the submission process will typically be
handled by the medical communication
company they will produce a package
which includes a cover letter
written in the so-called author's name
that will include
the manuscript for submission
and anything else that might be used for
the submission process
and there's a crucial transfer of
the intellectual property from the
pharmaceutical company
to the so-called named author of the
paper
so that now the paper becomes the
intellectual property of the honorary
author
for the purpose of submission
to the journal and for the purpose of
peer review
and all of that is is you know behind
the scenes here
we've only we only discover this in the
process of litigation
where we're doing discovery
[Music]
and the bomb headline law firm has made
a real effort
to make sure that this goes public
and that we will not settle any cases
unless we get them to agree
that these documents are made public the
journals
must be aware that this is a widespread
practice
what's their incentive for accepting
these papers
the main problem here is many of these
journals are
terribly conflicted in the sense that
they become dependent on pharmaceutical
industry money
they're dependent on pharmaceutical
industry money and in terms of the
enormous
revenue they receive in pharmaceutical
advertising
which by the way appears side by side to
these ghost written articles right so
you think okay you're getting a piece of
science here
that is to say you know the final
product of a clinical trial and then
you're getting
advertising for what might be exactly
the same
pharmaceutical but it turns out it's all
marketing marketing disguised to look
like science
now the problem here is that some of the
content of medical journal articles is
genuine
uh we can't we can't you know broadly
paint
all of the content of medical journals
as fraudulent
but the problem is the fraudulent
articles are so professionally done that
it's extremely difficult to distinguish
them from the genuine
so now what we've got is an article
that's submitted
to the medical journals and we don't
know really whether
the editors completely understand
the extent to which this paper has been
ghost written and the extent to which
the data has been misrepresented by
the ghostwriter to make the safety
profile of the drug look
better and the efficacy profile of the
drug
looked better we don't really know that
but enormous a number of these medical
journals are
are dependent on publishing these
industry trials
and so some medical journal editors
um have gone public
and have stated you know that they're
aware of the problem
but then you also find uh medical
journal editors
showing up to these conferences
that are put on by publication planners
in other words the ghost writers and the
medical journal editors go to the same
conference and we've got the medical
journal
editors actively soliciting the ghost
written manuscripts
from the ghost writers to their journals
there was something that
you you mentioned in your both your
article and the book
about this concept of the pharma
companies
buying thousands of issues of the
journal and that that's another
incentive
right for the uh the journals to
accept these fraudulent papers can you
describe that
so that's another way in which the
medical journals have become enormously
dependent upon
revenue from the pharmaceutical industry
you have to realize that
a clinical trial on a blockbuster drug
published in a top medical journal with
the branding of a key opinion leader
and that key opinion leaders university
affiliation
is worth an enormous amount of money in
terms of
confidence let's say for example
they want to buy a million copies of
these reprints because it's a
blockbuster drug and the sales reps are
now going to go distribute
the reprints of this journal article
so now the journal is is obviously going
to become enormously
rich on the basis of the reprint
sales of the journal article
and and also today there's another
phenomenon
where journal articles uh have open
access
and uh that's replacing the model
of the reprint issue but it's the
pharmaceutical
industry that's paying for the open
access
did you participate in thought in the
vioxx stuff or you just studied it for
your paper
this is not a case i worked on so i
don't know in a lot of detail but i can
speak
briefly about
the the fact that there were um
problems that they knew about when they
were conducting their clinical trials
with regard to stroke and um
heart attack and in this
one particular case they had a
manuscript ghost written
where they downplayed uh heart attack
cases and
the professor
who put his name on this paper was then
confronted with
the fact that there were patients in
this trial that had died of heart
attacks and were
not in fact reported in the paper and
his response to this was well
i went with the data that merck gave me
so this i think is the essence of the
problem that i referred to before
where you've got a lead author on a
paper
who can't guarantee the content of the
paper that's been published in his name
why is that well it's because the data
is owned by
the pharmaceutical company and they
release it according to their
own interests what are adverse events
and how does ghostwriting help hide
adverse events well there are a number
of ways
in which marketing people
will slice and dice the data
once it has been sort of analyzed by the
statisticians
and that's you know a very sort of
tricky process
of statistics as to how all of this can
be manipulated
but the one sort of instance that's
discussed in my book
it has to do with coding
a coding is how you describe an adverse
event in terms of some particular kind
of term
so so let's say for example in the case
of a
particular clinical trial for an
antidepressant tested on children
you get lots of adverse events which
include
suicidal ideation suicidal gestures
suicidal attempts or even completed
suicides
this became a problem with regard to
antidepressants for children because we
got a black box warning from the fda on
that eventually
and the paper i'm thinking of in
particular which was study 329
which is now famous for
this particular little tactic what they
did
was they coded suicidality or suicidal
events as something they called
emotional liability so it was basically
hidden
in the coding and emotional ability
nobody even seemed to know what that
term even meant
but it basically means anything from
crying
on the one hand all the way to sort of
attempting suicide
what are the other common ways to
manipulate a study
that these you know these medical
communications companies do
on behalf of big pharma we talk about uh
the way in which a clinical trial
is uh from start to finish
uh you've got the design of the trial
and that might be done by
you know scientists who are recruited
maybe even the key opinion
leaders who were recruited at the very
beginning
in conjunction with the internal
scientists at the pharmaceutical company
then you have the conduct of the trial
which is typically outsourced
to contract research organizations you
know it's the big
uh complex
uh effort of the logistics of of running
the clinical trial and collecting the
data
and then you have the reporting of the
trial which is done
by the medical communications company in
conjunction with
the marketing people so you've got three
different
phases here and in my book what what i'm
describing with dr gerardini
is cheating at every different level
here
all right so let's go back to the design
you're asking about
how the manipulation
can be accomplished from the very
beginning in the way
in which trials are designed so there
are a number of ways
for example if you use
too high a dose or too low a dose
of the drug against complete placebo or
comparator drug you could rig the trial
to sort of get some of the numbers that
you want
and to adversely impact a competitor
drug right i mean
sometimes these these trials are done to
slander
a a rival drug exactly
exactly you know and so in that case uh
you've got a trial that's being
conducted for a marketing purpose right
from the very start rather than
a genuine scientific purpose because you
know what
what they're doing is trying to increase
their market share with the other
companies by showing competitor that
their drug
is more effective or more safe but
getting back to
uh the problem with the design and
the fiddling with the dosage it was a
very good example of this again in study
329
where there was a comparator drug called
imipramine
that was being compared against paxil
and placebo
and they used an enormous
high dose of omipramine which
subsequent sort of researchers have
called elephant doses
especially for children and what that
did was
make the side effect profile of paxil
look
better by comparison okay so here these
are two examples right both coming from
one particular study 329
of how in the design of the trial in the
coding
and in the dosage we can get right from
the very start
a manipulation of the science what
what's the next stage and how
can manipulation enter into the picture
there there's a question here
about the conduct of the trial in many
cases
as to how the data is collected
and if it's being done by a for-profit
third party that's at service to the
sponsor
namely the pharmaceutical industry they
want to produce results that the sponsor
wants so for right from the start
there's there's a kind of financial
interest
in the outcome here um now
in one particular case that's described
in our book we had an
unblinding that occurred in the in the
conduct of the clinical trial
now in this particular case there was a
drug called citalopram that was being
tested
on children and nine
of the participants in the trial became
unblinded okay so right from the start
we've got a serious protocol violation
here
because what we're trying to do is a
double-blind
placebo-controlled clinical trial they
were dispensed
the pink commercial tablets by accident
instead of the pills which would
uh been indistinguishable as to placebo
and the study drug which was citalopram
in this case
now what we discovered again this is
only discovered through
the sort of discovery process of
litigation where we get access to all of
these documents
what we discovered is that the company
decided
to include eight of those nine
unblinded patients in the analysis of
the trial as
if they were not unblinded
you've got problems at all stages here
of design
conduct and reporting and in this case
the conduct and the reporting
there was a clear violation and
again doctors reading this medical
journal article
would be completely unaware of this we
see
what the incentive is to medical
journals because
they're taking pharma advertising and
they're getting
reprint dollars uh what about the
universities where
a lot of these physicians and you know
phds work
what's the incentive for them to be
involved in this fraud
i think universities just like the
medical journals are conflicted in the
sense that
there's an enormous incentive to to
to take in the revenue from
pharmaceutical companies
to conduct these trials at
university research hospitals for
example and
to have their university professors
participate
in drug testing now
one of the problems that we've found
with regard to
preserving the integrity of science is
that when things go badly wrong
and and then you go back to the
universities and you say
look this occurred under your watch you
need to do something about it
here is a ghost written medical journal
article that fraudulently
misrepresented the science it was your
university
professors who were the principal
investigators in this trial
and the first authors on this paper and
you need to take responsibility and
formally
acknowledge this and have
the journal article retracted
in other words encourage the retraction
from the journal that published it
and what we basically find they're
silent
let's talk about disease mongering
define that for us
disease mongering is another
term for selling sickness there was
a um pharmaceutical
executive in fact a ceo i think it was
from merck
he was reflecting on his career
on what he could have done better and he
said you know the main problem is that
we were
selling drugs to sick people what we
should have realized
is that we should sell drugs to healthy
people that way we've enormously
expanded our market and we could sell
drugs just like bubble gum
what has happened in something like the
past
20 or 30 years is that we're sold a lot
of
pharmaceuticals where the risk benefit
ratio
is not in favor of taking the drug
and we have all sorts of uh instances
where
people who really didn't need to be on
these drugs took these drugs
and then had serious adverse events
so disease mongering is a marketing
scheme
of pharmaceutical companies to
persuade us to use fear
and to use our trust in science and
extremely deceptive
way in order to persuade us to go on
on different kinds of drugs a lot of
people are just going to sort of trust
well it's a drug put out by a
pharmaceutical company it must be safe
and effective it's been approved by the
fda
and so people take the drug
for example a case like like gardasil
which is a vaccine
has been given to girls and you know
the company called merck engages
marketing pr firms to produce these
campaigns that appear on television
called
one less and these are entirely
persuasive to people who
fear cervical cancer
each year in the u.s thousands of women
learn they have cervical cancer
i could be one less one less statistic
one less because now there's gardasil
the only vaccine that may help protect
you from the four types of human
papilloma virus that may cause 70
percent of cervical cancer
but now it turns out that something like
pap smear testing
is enormously effective and basically
does the job
cervical cancer turns out to be have an
incidence it's extremely rare
but now we get cases where patients have
been
severely harmed by taking this
vaccine and end up in wheelchairs for
the rest of their lives
now this is a case where we've got the
pharmaceutical marketing which is out of
control we've got in
instances here where disease mongering
has has become a serious problem
i have cervical cancer from an infection
human papillomavirus who knew hpv could
lead to certain cancers
who knew my risk for hpv would increase
as i got older
who knew that there was something that
could have helped protect me from hpv
when i was 11 or 12
way before i would even be exposed to it
did you know
mom dad
[Music]
well that does suck like not being able
to
play sports anymore
because i did i did do a lot of sports
my favorite
this is an nj tube what it does is
basically
it goes up my nose and near my throat
and it goes past
my stomach into my jejunum or the first
part of the
small intestine because my stomach is
completely paralyzed
she got the third shot within two weeks
she was hospitalized and she remained
hospitalized
for eight solid months so they put her
on an immunosuppressant and a
uh intraconocell which is a anti-fungal
medication
i've dumped some of them out this is
what it looks like to be on gardasil
the after the aftermath of it and this
is just one bag we got about 15 more at
home
after all the struggles and fights and
we thought she was finally getting a
little better
she went to sleep she wasn't feeling
good during the day
and i wanted to check on her and she
looked like she was very still she was
in her bed
and she had passed away and i tried to
revive her
but she was gone i loved her so much i
would have
given my life first
she was just a good kid
and her mom made a bad choice
you know there are there are drugs that
that treat
very serious problems here that's a a
whole different matter
what we're talking about is is marketing
campaigns
that are designed to mold and shape
public
perceptions and to use fear in a very
sort of
effective way to
persuade patients to go to their doctors
insist
that they must have these drugs what
will you say don't wait
talk to your child's doctor today learn
more at hpv.com
now let me ask you what's the role of
the
fda the cdc the nih of
regulatory bodies uh and scientific
agencies
in this whole kind of charade to what
degree do they participate
well that's the first thing that most
people think about when
when they when they hear um
about the kind of fraud and corruption
that i'm talking about in the
pharmaceutical industry
they said well wait a minute we've got
the fda and the fda is
is one of the most respected regulatory
agencies in the world
uh so how is it possible that what
you're saying could be true
and now we have the phenomena of
regulatory capture where regulators are
captured by the industry that they're
supposed to regulate
in terms of different kinds of
legislation
that is introduced that are basically
gifts to the pharmaceutical industry
from
the senators and congress people who
are lobbied for such favorable
legislation and in these cases what we
have
is a regulatory capture
is that the industry becomes a client
to the regulators so we're not really
dealing with
sort of rigorous oversight anymore first
we continue working with the business
community to get more drugs approved
faster i'd like to ask the congressman
now to join me up here so we can sign
the bill thank you
and the other problem is called the
revolving door
where you've got regulators and
industry executives that just go back
and forth between the pharmaceutical
industry
and the fda
what do you say to people who say well
you know only
industry executives are you know
competent enough or know enough about
the industry to become
regulators well i don't think that
that's true
i mean i think that you know you could
have
uh serious epidemiologists
who are working at universities
uh who would be more ideal for these
roles
and do we have cases where someone
has just been say the head of you know
some branch of the cdc or uh
fda and then has moved directly
into an industry position where they had
literally
just helped along the approval of a
given drug and
are now you know a vice president at the
at the company who received the benefits
of that approval
you're exactly on target and that's
discussed in my book when we talk about
the case
of uh forest laboratories
citalopram and the very individuals
in the fda who gave the drug
or its
metoo molecule regulatory approval for
use in children
and when then what we find is that these
people
when they when they retire from the fda
after having approved the drug
they become a consultant for the very
company
that is going to benefit from that what
you're describing
what we've been talking about and the
nature of the work you've been doing
um has been medicine and pharmacology
in the best of times so now we're in a
situation
you know an alleged an emergency uh and
and
and drugs are uh you know are being
rushed to market without animal
trials uh so what how would you describe
uh the state of you know the response to
uh covet 19. well i'm
i'm terribly worried about this uh for
people who are who are taking this
vaccine right now who are at the front
lines
because it it has been rushed
to a market so quickly
uh that it it is it is it is alarming
and i think you know just as you said uh
if you look at if
if the way in which the testing goes on
in the best of times
uh you have every reason in the world to
be extremely
skeptical about what drugs you take and
about
whether or not you are receiving
uh the results of genuine science or
marketing
and now you have to imagine under the
worst of times namely a global pandemic
and um what we've got is a situation
where
it's extremely difficult for the top
scientists around the world to follow
the science
when you're getting so many
contradictory conclusions and results
what kind of trust and confidence are we
willing to put in this
now obviously you know we're just going
to have to wait and see
we're we're uh in the middle of all of
this at the moment
but it's an interesting question as to
whether or not the pharmaceutical
companies are
going to make this data available to
researchers
who might be interested in re-analyzing
it and attempting to determine just
exactly
what the effectiveness and safety
results were
final question what would evidence-based
medicine look like and how do we get
back
to doing it oh brilliant yeah
well i think that what we first of all
need to do
is to completely uh eliminate
um pharmaceutical companies testing
their own drugs
i mean how in the world we get into a
situation where we actually
trust the manufacturers to do their own
testing
[Music]
the oligarchy corporations here
has basically usurped democracy
the sort of uh cherished institutions of
democracy which involve
checks and balances in the system uh
but also scientific integrity
so who's looking out for scientific
integrity here's the problem
is it possible that covid19 is the
largest and most sophisticated disease
mongering campaign in human history
would say that we should approach this
with extreme skepticism
america's biopharmaceutical companies
have one very important thing in common
a common enemy we're making great
progress because we're collaborating in
ways that we've never done before
in a matter of weeks we've progressed
from potential treatments to antibodies
and antivirals that have shown positive
results to several promising vaccine
candidates
because science science science is how
we get back to normal
[Music]

2,353 posted on 06/08/2021 12:28:10 AM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: humblegunner

In other words, you’re saying my low expectations of your posts should be lowered a bit more.


2,354 posted on 06/14/2021 3:15:49 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: reasonisfaith

You can indulge in whatever fantasy bullshit you like.
Really makes no difference to me.


2,355 posted on 06/14/2021 3:17:51 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner

“You can indulge in whatever fantasy bullshit you like.
Really makes no difference to me.”

Is that another way of saying you wish you had controlled your girlish desire to jump into the conversation I was having with someone else?


2,356 posted on 06/16/2021 12:51:41 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: reasonisfaith

I say what I mean
and mean what I say.
You only object
because you are gay.

188%


2,357 posted on 06/16/2021 12:57:53 PM PDT by humblegunner
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In the mouth.


2,358 posted on 06/16/2021 12:58:59 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner

Humblegunner comes

And Humblegunner goes,

The length of his wit

Is the square root of his nose.


2,359 posted on 06/16/2021 5:53:41 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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