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.
PING
Berenson is freaking awesome — a true journalist in a world where 99.8% of his erstwhile colleagues are shills, dupes or propagandists.
The writer is not the superior intellect he fancies himself to be. He is part of the disinformation campaign.
If one cannot get hydroxychloroquine, Quercetin is supposed to do the same thing.
-PJ
Merely speaking from experience in my family: Ivermectin has been a cheap, easy, and 100-percent effective solution.
I've read his by-line over the years, but I don't know what he's getting at by his assertion above.
And I'll add: It's possible that he has a lot of random opinions. . . i.e., that he's substantially full of crap.
Maybe that ivermectin is more effective the earlier that it’s taken, and then it’s efficacy declines if not taken until a patient has developed complications...?
I was puzzled by the diss as well.
Jabos
See my post #9
On April 20, 1944, the U.S. Army Air Force's (USAAF) IX Air Support Command was officially redesignated IX Tactical Air Command (TAC). The 32-page booklet "Achtung Jabos!" was produced by the USAAF in early 1945 to tell the history of the IX TAC through the end of 1944. [The word "Jabo" is derived from the German "Jäger-Bomber," or "fighter-bomber" (literally, "hunter-bomber"). Sixty years after the end of the war in Europe, German veterans still speak with awe when talking about the daily demonstrations of unchallenged Allied air power that they witnessed on the Western Front in 1944-45. Some say they still unconsciously glance up over their shoulders at the mere memory of having a Jabo descending on them, guns blazing. They still hear the warning shouts of their comrades. Achtung Jabos!]
If you think they don't, reflect on the Fair N Free "Election" of 2020.
Yep. Or as someone once said, “The pen is mightier than the sword.”
Pfizer’s about to pull the same scam with their expensive Ivermectin clone.
I was surprised when I first saw Alex Berenson appear on Fox talk shows.....during the ‘pandemic’
.....the name was familiar only because I read a few of his ‘John Wells’ spy novels
He wrote well but I couldn’t relate to his protagonist.....John Wells, undercover spy after 9/11.....disguising himself and blending into the Mideast for years until he himself embraced the Muslim religion .....he became a true believer, it seemed
That was off putting so I stopped reading his brand.
Not all of his books reflect John Wells......some of the others are very good
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Thanks for the testimonial, my friend. I hope this comment gets to you.
Frankly, we don’t need any more articles on Covid treatments or the vaccine. IT’S clear that everyone has their opinion they want to foist on others, plus the science and politics on the subject change by the hour.
WHAT WE DO NEED, IS A REAL BONA FIDE FAIR MINDED REPORTER, who will explain to us, what happened on the night and early hours of the 2020 Election. (Since you failed to dispel the conspiracy that Trump colluded with the Russians.)
Karl Rove can’t explain how there were dumps of ballots all for Biden after midnight, or the fact that a large percentage of mail in ballots were counted after the election, and that the ballots themselves were fakes.
I digress.
Bottom line, tell us what happened. Get off your high horse one trick pony self gratulations herewith, and tell us what is going on in this country....right before our eyes.
We can handle the election of a poor president. This has happened, but what we’re seeing here, are the results of a fraudulent election, where a man and woman, and probably several senators and house member were elected thru false means.
We can’t survive fake elections
ALL OF US ON FREE REPUBLIC FEAR THAT’S GOING TO GET WORSE. Each day there’s something.
Here’s a tinderbox list for you, if you care to look into it, of events transforming before our very eyes because of Biden. These events would never have happened under a Trump Admin.
1. Ukraine
2. Taiwan
3. China military build up
4. Inflation at home
5. Higher energy prices
6. More crime
7. Border is totally lost
8. Looming events of terror being planned as we speak here at home
9. Growing assault on our right to defend ourselves.
10. Supply chain issues
11. I could go on and on
We haven’t even come close to seeing the worst of it yet my friend.
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Funny, I was thinking that about you. How ironic
From the American Heart Association website
Abstract 10712: Mrna COVID Vaccines Dramatically Increase Endothelial Inflammatory Markers and ACS Risk as Measured by the PULS Cardiac Test: a Warning | Circulation
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/circ.144.suppl_1.10712
No, he’s trying to be cautious. I don’t think he’d deny that those drugs have value. He’s saying be skeptical of everything and don’t go around thinking you’ve got a magic bullet that is 100% effective under all conditions.
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