Posted on 06/17/2021 5:56:47 AM PDT by Kaslin
The best way to be sure a debate is lost is to accept it within the framework provided. So, with that being said, the debate about Big Pharma is another example of beginning a discussion back on one's heels and at an immediate disadvantage. Without a doubt, hearing or reading the words "Big Pharma" conjures up the image of an enormous, greedy and wildly profitable industry prospering and expanding as it lays waste to the public and extinguishes its competition.
This is the inherent context in which any public conversation about Big Pharma begins. Big Pharma reaps scandalous profits while charging the public inflated prices for essential medications. Moreover, the innovations and discoveries within the industry are often sponsored by government research grants funded by the taxpayers.
In the wake of the now receding COVID-19 pandemic, many observers have hopefully had the occasion to reexamine the inherently negative premise of Big Pharma. No honest and informed observer can come to any other conclusion than were it not for the genius, inventiveness, skill and prowess embedded within Big Pharma, the pandemic would have accelerated, with countless millions of us having by now fallen ill, suffered gravely and died.
A recounting of these facts in this most recent triumph of our biomedical industry highlights this and the vital role they play in society. Shortly after Chinese released the DNA sequence of the COVID-19 virus, both Pfizer and Moderna had developed a novel mRNA vaccine approach. Within the context of former President Donald Trump's Operation Warp Speed, the government became a partner in this novel and unprecedented vaccine and hastened its development, production and distribution to Americans. Not a single American citizen paid a penny out of pocket to receive these extraordinary vaccines, and for the first time in human history, a pandemic that gripped the entirety of humankind now has been largely contained within populations that have been vaccinated. Imagine how many lives would have been saved had the Chinese government released the DNA sequence earlier.
Despite this monstruous effort by Big Pharma, there appears to be no need to be encumbered by the facts; recently, the European Union announced plans to sue Big Pharma member AstraZeneca because of its delay in vaccine dissemination. The company had committed to deliver 300 million vaccines within the first six months of 2021, but in fact, only 100 million vaccines were administered. A careful parsing of the facts makes it clear that the problem was not the pharmaceutical company itself but instead its partners at Oxford University. There, scientists within the Jenner Institute wanted to themselves produce the vaccine and make it available at cost. Apparently, the issue that beset the scientists was that the pharmaceutical company might profit from the vaccine, and that concern created the stumbles that delayed the vaccine's availability, even as the third COVID-19 wave beset Europe.
Likewise, here in America, it has been seriously proposed that the intellectual property the companies hold for their vaccine development should be stripped away. This is in the name of more rapid distribution to developing nations. Private property is the central pavilion of a free society, and its removal by force of law places our government in line with the People's Republic of China as they brazenly steal the technology of private companies that sell their products to the Chinese people.
Recently, we have heard of an astounding new development in cancer care wherein patients with lung cancer and a particular genetic marker may be successfully treated with a new medication. This on top of the burgeoning immunotherapy that has already revolutionized the care of those afflicted with lung cancer, which, not so long ago, carried the stigma of certain imminent death. Imagine persuading the woman whose husband has advanced lung malignancy that this new medicine's manufacturer is her enemy.
What medicines do you or your spouse or your parents take that were not developed in the United States by Big Pharma? If we choose to kill the goose that lays the golden egg, we are simply less prosperous. If we choose to vilify and undermine our pharmaceutical industry, we stand to lose far more than just our prosperity.
Pushing up front the accomplishments while ignoring the greed and forcing Americans to pay the full price of development is also not honest.
Sorry, but Big Pharma is a really big and life-threatening problem that corrupts 99% of our medical profession.
In 1949 Dr. Fred Klenner, a board-certified graduate of Duke University Medical School, published a cure for all acute viral illnesses using mega-doses of vitamin C. Dr Klenner’s publication has never been refuted, but its use by mainstream medicine has been successfully suppressed by Big Pharma. Occasionally someone put’s Klenner’s discovery into practice and saves a life. https://jeffreydachmd.com/vitamin-c-saves-dying-man/
Add in the deaths caused by Big Pharma suppression of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin to treat the Wuhan virus, and you can easily see that the deaths caused by Big Pharma have been in the millions.
devere wrote: “Sorry, but Big Pharma is a really big and life-threatening problem that corrupts 99% of our medical profession.”
Sorry, but that is simply wrong.
Well when the med beds roll out its going to be a moot point. 😏
There is more and more and more money going toward healthcare every day
They’re building giant hospitals left and right and advertising on the radio every day about how great they are
I have said from the beginning here I’ve had this opinion for over 30 years that the vaccine industry is pure unadulterated inexcusable evil masquerading as saving the world
To that point once again I’m going to post the sordid history of the vaccine industry to get CPUs anybody of the notion that they’re good at all
But beyond the unmedicated evil of the vaccine industry and are democratic states he he try to force these poisons onto children before they enter the public school system may being in destroying many of them there are far more terrible and awful things about the western medical establishment and the theory that you need the doctor for everything and you should always listen to them
Big Pharma is really big drug
Not only do they have hundreds of different vaccines that they would love to force you to take which are actually drugs they have millions and millions of different drugs but they would love to force it on you
The inherent nature of good health is self care and understanding the fundamental principles of diet exercise and fresh air and filling your mind with healthy things
For the most part you shouldn’t really need doctors at all unless you break something had a severe laceration or having a baby or in severe pain
The attempt in this article to walk a tight rope and try to rehabilitate the incredibly evil vaccine industry is laughable on its face
As regards one of the other giant lies that the medical establishment has used for decades if not centuries now is that colloidal silver is not an effective agent in defeating viruses and bacteria in fact it is incredibly effective itself and it is the only prophylactically for antibacterial and anti-viral agent that you need.
Are used to say before COVID-19 the “treating the common cold is a multi billion dollar business”
Well now of course as we got this communist plot for us to produce at this book that Covid nonsense now it’s upwards of $1 trillion a year with the testing the bull crap the vaccines and all the other garbage that big farm is thrusting upon us
To prove my point about colloidal silver I’m just going to do a couple of links here that show you widely circulated by a paper showing the effectiveness
The stupid and mostly Evo medical establishment used to go after people that would promote colloidal silver generators for selling the product but they have had their hands tied because they’re lying and they cannot actually do it anymore legally
So I only can do is put out miss information at this point and say that it will turn you blue or gray weather it’s not safe or some other nonsense
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Antibacterial Activity of Colloidal Silver against Gram-Negative and Gram-Positive Bacteria - NCBI - NIH
by AV Domínguez · 2020 · Cited by 19 — Here, we aimed to evaluate the in vitro activity of colloidal silver (CS) against multidrug-resistant (MDR) Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria. A total of 270 strains ...
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Antibacterial efficacy of colloidal silver alone and in combination with other antibiotics on isolates from wound Infections - Academic Journals
by JO Orji · 2007 · Cited by 13 — the colloidal silver at both concentrations and also to some of the antibiotics in the paper disc. ... Key words: Antibacterial, colloidal silver, clinical bacteria isolates, antibiotic discs, killing ...
Do you have any facts to back your opinion? My perception is that Big Pharma views every illness as primarily a profit opportunity. Capitalism is a great thing, but it has had decidedly mixed results in the medical field.
There are some good vaccines, such as for tetanus and diphtheria. The polio vaccine wasn’t needed, because Dr Klenner was curing 100% of his polio patients with vitamin C back in the 1940s.
devere wrote: “Do you have any facts to back your opinion? My perception is that Big Pharma views every illness as primarily a profit opportunity.”
Do you have any facts to back up your allegation that 99% of our medical profession is corrupt?
Profit isn’t your enemy. Capitalism and profit are the principal reasons you enjoy the life style you do and have access to the medications that keep you healthy.
Capitalism and profit ARE the principal reasons I enjoy the lifestyle I do. But my good health comes from diet, exercise, and the grace of God, not drugs.
My daughter is a physician. She spent a decade of her time and some of my small fortune becoming a physician, and she is understandably concerned about possibly losing her license. So she follows the pro-Big_Pharma corruption that comes from NIH, FDA, & CDC. Hepatitis_B vaccine for infants? No problem, if the government says so it must be a good idea.
My family physician is a great guy, but he is like my daughter. He looks haggard after letting many of his patients die from the Wuhan virus due to failing to prescribe hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin. Doctors who are scared of losing their livelihood can no longer exercise their independent professional judgment. My estimate is 99%, but if you think it is 98%, I won’t argue.
Interesting chart, however, it is rather dated chart.
It could be very informative if it was updated...
Defense contractors too I imagine. I bet GE and the obama admin were probably like that. We're a Corporatocracy.
Do you even read what you write before hitting the post button? That is such a ridiculous statement. You should be embarrassed.
The U.S., under a capitalist system, dominates just about every area of the medical industry. They do so by innovating. Innovation is driven by the search for profits and a competitive economy. Throughout the 80's and 90's, and into the 2000's, 90% of all new commercialized pharmaceuticals were discovered in the U.S.
What do you think drives research and development? It's profit. Collectivist countries and others that practice price controls do not bring innovative medical products or pharmaceuticals to market. The U.S. is the golden goose of the medical industry.
What you write is somewhat true, but the large flaw in your intemperate argument is that commercialized pharmaceuticals are not what is most beneficial for health. Good public sanitation has been very important, and individual diet and exercise are very important. Apart from those things, non-patentable natural substances are generally much more beneficial than commercialized pharmaceuticals. No drug company, regardless of it’s research budget, can come up with anything as beneficial as vitamins C & D, or curcumin, or IP6. Were you aware that curcumin, in a double-blinded, placebo controlled study, was 100% effective in preventing type-2 diabetes?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22773702
http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/diacare/35/11/2121.full.pdf
A study 3 years earlier had investigated how curcumin exercised its anti-diabetic effects:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19665995
No drug company can match that sort of result. The only things they can do to continue to profit is try to suppress public knowledge, and also suppress use in mainstream medical practice. And it appears that is what has been happening successfully, at least since the 1940s, if not before.
http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/1991/pdf/1991-v06n02-p099.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1kD3BolXnE
https://www.seanet.com/~alexs/ascorbate/198x/smith-lh-clinical_guide_1988.htm
So when I wrote “Capitalism is a great thing, but it has had decidedly mixed results in the medical field.” I was actually deliberately understating the extent of the problem. The results in the medical field have actually ranged from mixed to tragic. Just in 2020-1 the suppression of medical use of unprofitable vitamins C&D, hydroxychloroquine+zinc and ivermectin has probably killed 1/2 million Americans.
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