Posted on 09/19/2019 7:37:15 PM PDT by Windflier
It was recently disclosed that Pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly paid millions of dollars to the victims of a mass shooter to cover up the connection between the mass shooter and prozac.
Why are all mass shooters, past and present, always on some similar type of prescription drugs, most notably antidepressants?
Everybody should know by now that pharmaceutical companies tend to be extremely unethical, and that they have a very tight stranglehold over government health regulatory agencies like the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food & Drug Administration (FDA).
According to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., pharmaceutical companies have more lobbyists in Washington D.C. than there are congressmen and senators combined. They are even more powerful than big oil and gas, so you can just imagine the power they exercise over politicians and our federal health regulatory agencies.
It’s also important to point out the revolving door that exists between big pharma and federal health regulatory agencies. Julie Gerberding, the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association ‘Woman of the Year,’ is a prime example of someone who has gone through the revolving door between government regulatory agencies and the corporations they are supposed to be regulating. She was once the Director of the CDC before moving over to an executive position at Merck.
This is no secret, multiple scientists from within these organizations, like the CDC, have even “blown the whistle.”
A group called the CDC Scientists Preserving Integrity, Diligence and Ethics in Research, or CDC SPIDER, put a list of complaints in a letter to the CDC Chief of Staff and provided a copy of the letter to the public watchdog organization U.S. Right to Know (USRTK).
We are a group of scientists at CDC that are very concerned about the current state of ethics at our agency. It appears that our mission is being influenced and shaped by outside parties and rogue interests. It seems that our mission and Congressional intent for our agency is being circumvented by some of our leaders. What concerns us most, is that it is becoming the norm and not the rare exception. Some senior management officials at CDC are clearly aware and even condone these behaviours.
There are so many examples of pharmaceutical fraud, it’s truly unbelievable how they are able to operate. One of the latest examples comes from the drug maker that produces Prozac. This is an antidepressant that Joseph Wesbeker’s victims claimed was responsible for his shooting rampage 30 years ago at Standard Gravure. The maker of the drug quietly paid $20 million to help “ensure a verdict exonerating the drug company.”
The company is called Eli Lilly, and they hid the payment for more than two decades, all the while defying a Louisville judge who fought to reveal it because he said it influenced the jury’s verdict.
Apparently, Wesbecker started to take Prozac about a month before his killing spree that killed eight and wounded 12 in the print shop attached to the Courier Journal. All but one of the victims sued Eli Lilly.
In exchange for the payment, the plaintiffs – eight estates and 11 survivors – agreed to withhold damaging evidence about the arthritis drug Oraflex that Lilly withdrew from the market. Lilly pleaded guilty to 25 criminal misdemeanor counts for failing to report adverse reactions that patients suffered from the drug, and the drug company feared that the Prozac jury would be more inclined to rule against the drug maker if it learned of it. The plaintiffs agreed that if the jury found Lilly liable, they would not seek damages, nor would they appeal the verdict if they lost.
Here is another example of fraud I wrote about a few years ago with regards to antidepressants. Again, it involved pharmaceutical companies that were not disclosing all information regarding the results of their drug trials. Researchers looked at documents from 70 different double-blind, placebo-controlled trials of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) and serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRI) and found that the full extent of serious harm in clinical study reports went unreported. These are the reports sent to major health authorities like the U.S. FDA.
the fact that you place Prozac in the same psychoactive category as the benzos and antipsychotics shows your ignorance.
You are talking out your hat.
Makes sense that the mentally ill were being treated for mental illness.
No telling - they use these drugs on what are essentially malfunctioning brains and they have no idea of what makes the drugs “work” and what the true effect on the brain is...probably save a lot of lives by prescribing mood enhancers vs. drugs that screw with the brain’s operation in unknown ways...Valium, anyone?
I said that all these drugs are psychoactive, that they minimize inhibitions, and that their appearance for trials with final acceptance on the market are coincident with mass shootings. All these statements are true, and because of it, your own ignorance is showing. Prozac is an SSRI. And I should have added the amphetamines Dexedrine and Adderall to the above list, ones wich were coincident to mass shootings.
“Of course, but drugs altered the mind of the one who pulled the trigger.”
Absolutely, I was trying to remember what we had discussed in common on here in the past. I remember now it was this particular topic we are in complete agreement on. Remember the son in law I told you about? THIS!
EVERY ONE of these Mass Killers has been on one or more of these drugs!
Actually, until they started handing these out like candy there were very few at all.
If you think it stopped there I have a bridge to sell you. My son’s Psychiatrist treated him like a guinea pig until I put my foot down as a father. His response was ‘You’re a narcissist!’ While chasing me down the hall at his office! I told him to look in the mirror.
My son today is a healthy young entrepreneur who immediately improved as a student and as a person once that poison was fully out of his body. His original drugging occurred in 3rd grade because he had a hard time sitting in his seat at school while his mom and I were going through a nasty divorce. She and I paid financially only, he paid emotionally for many years and the drugs MADE IT FAR WORSE. His teachers finally BEGGED us to take him off them because he was a zombie in class in middle school. He had NO mental health issue besides worrying about his parents.
If I ever see that Psychiatrist on the street I’m going to spit in his face. And anyone else who cavalierly proclaims that drugs are the answer.
“Don’t be ignorant on this one. “
I most certainly am not. But if you want to shift the blame away from the dude who pulled the trigger to the manufactures of the items (drugs and Guns) ...
Have you actually EVER read about these drugs? I would NEVER let a person on these drugs touch ANY weapon, let alone a gun. Yes, you are clearly limiting your thinking on this issue. There are WARNING LABELS on these psychotropic drugs that CLEARLY spell out the side effect of violent episodes. I guess you would be against a law that would not allow a gun purchase by someone who is taking these dangerous drugs too. If so, keep burying your head in the sand. I have friends who lost loved ones at Stoneman Douglas last year and that kid PASSED a background check!
Anything following this statement should be viewed with scepticism.
Have you actually EVER read about these drugs? I would NEVER let a person with guns touch ANY drug, let alone these drugs. Yes, you are clearly limiting your thinking on this issue.
Are you proposing that when the doctor prescribes these drugs that a court ordered confiscation of Guns should be issued?
None of that changes the fact that 2/3’s of mass shooters did NOT have a history of psychiatric drug use or that millions of persons have taken them and NOT killed anyone.
Mass shooters have many other things in common at a much higher rate like fatherlessness and anti-social personalities and narcissism.
The facts simply do not line up on that particular mythic factoid. Ignoring what the actual math says is confirmation bias.
There is increasing mental illness and most of it is related to methamphetamine use, especially when coupled with alcohol or marijuana. Overexcited energy levels while simultaneously depressing inhibitions is a how you get outrageous behavior.
Another dumb thing I see is the reporting and government response to the “opioid crises”. People dropping like flies from illegitimate heroin/fentanyl abuse, but hey, lets restrict pain pills for legitimate chronic pain or cancer patients and hand out free needles to the junkies.
It makes no sense.
BUMP!
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