Big Pharma criminality no longer a conspiracy theory

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Big Pharma criminality no longer a conspiracy theory

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Bribery, fraud, price fixing now a matter of public record

Mike

Natural News

Monday, July 9, 2012

(NaturalNews) Those of us who have long been describing the

pharmaceutical industry as a “criminal racket” over the last few years

have been wholly vindicated by recent news. Drug and vaccine

manufacturer Merck was caught red-handed by two of its own scientists

faking vaccine efficacy data by spiking blood samples with animal

antibodies.

GlaxoKline has just been fined a whopping $3 billion for

bribing doctors, lying to the FDA, hiding clinical trial data and

fraudulent marketing. Pfizer, meanwhile has been sued by the nation’s

pharmacy retailers for what is alleged as an “overarching anticompetitive

scheme” to keep generic cholesterol drugs off the market and thereby

boost its own profits.

The picture that’s emerging is one of a criminal drug industry that

has turned to mafia tactics in the absence of any real science that

would prove their products to be safe or effective. The emergence of this

extraordinary evidence of bribery, scientific fraud, lying to regulators

and monopolistic practices that harm consumers is also making all those

doctors and “skeptics” who defended Big Pharma and vaccines eat their

words.

To defend Big Pharma today is to defend a cabal of criminal

corporations that have proven they will do anything ­ absolutely

anything ­ to keep their profits rolling in. It makes no

difference who they have to bribe, what studies they have to falsify, or

who has to be threatened into silence. They will stop at nothing to

expand their profit base, even if it means harming (or killing) countless

innocents.

Let’s take a look at recent revelations:

GlaxoKline pleads guilty to bribery, fraud and other crimes

A d v e r t i s e m e n t

It what is now the largest criminal fraud settlement ever to come out of

the pharmaceutical industry, GlaxoKline has pleaded guilty and

agreed to pay $1 billion in criminal fines and $2 billion in civil fines

following a nine-year federal investigation into its activities.

According to U.S. federal investigators, GlaxoKline

(

http://www.naturalnews.com/036416_GlaxoKline_fraud_criminal_char…

):

• Routinely bribed doctors with luxury vacations and paid speaking

gigs

• Fabricated drug safety data and lied to the FDA

• Defrauded Medicare and Medicaid out of billions

• Deceived regulators about the effectiveness of its drugs

• Relied on its deceptive practices to earn billions of dollars selling

potentially dangerous drugs to unsuspecting consumers and medical

patients

And this is just the part they got caught doing. GSK doesn’t even deny

any of this. The company simply paid the $3 billion fine, apologized to

its customers, and continued conducting business as usual.

By the way, in addition to bribing physicians, GSK has plenty of money to

spread around bribing celebrities and others who pimps its products. The

company reportedly paid $275,000 to the celebrity doctor known as “Dr.

Drew,” who promoted Glaxo’s mind-altering antidepressant drug Wellbutrin

(

http://naturalsociety.com/top-radio-doctor-paid-by-glaxosmithkline-to…

).

As the Wall Street Journal reports:

In June 1999, popular radio personality Dr. Drew Pinsky used the

airwaves to extol the virtues of GlaxoKline PLC’s antidepressant

Wellbutrin, telling listeners he prescribes it and other medications to

depressed patients because it “may enhance or at least not suppress

sexual arousal” as much as other antidepressants do. But one thing

listeners didn’t know was that, two months before the program aired, Dr.

Pinsky ­ who gained fame as “Dr. Drew” during years co-hosting a popular

radio sex-advice show “Loveline” ­ received the second of two payments

from Glaxo totaling $275,000 for “services for Wellbutrin.”

(

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230393340457750503200685…

)

Merck falsified vaccine data, spiked blood samples and more, say

former employees

According to former Merck virologists Krahling and Joan

Wlochowski, the company:

(

http://www.naturalnews.com/036328_Merck_mumps_vaccine_False_Claims_Ac…

)

• “Falsified test data to fabricate a vaccine efficacy rate of 95 percent

or higher.”

• Spiked the blood test with animal antibodies in order to artificially

inflate the appearance of immune system antibodies.

• Pressured the two virologists to “participate in the fraud and

subsequent cover-up.”

• Used the falsified trial results to swindle the U.S. government out of

“hundreds of millions of dollars for a vaccine that does not provide

adequate immunization.”

• Intimidated the scientists, threatening them with going to jail unless

they stayed silent.

This is all documented in a 2010 False Claims Act which

NaturalNews has acquired and posted here:

http://www.naturalnews.com/gallery/documents/Merck-False-Claims-Act.p…

Millions of children put at risk by Merck

In that document the two virologists say they, “witnessed firsthand

the improper testing and data falsification in which Merck engaged to

artificially inflate the vaccine’s efficacy findings.”

They also claim that because of the faked vaccine results, “the United

States has over the last decade paid Merck hundreds of millions of

dollars for a vaccine that does not provide adequate immunization… The

United States is by far the largest financial victim of Merck’s

fraud.”

They go on to point out that children are the real victims,

however:

“But the ultimate victims here are the millions of children who every

year are being injected with a mumps vaccine that is not providing them

with an adequate level of protection. …The failure in Merck’s vaccine has

allowed this disease to linger with significant outbreaks continuing to

occur.”

Merck’s mumps viral strain is 45 years old!

According to the complaint, Merck has been using the same mumps

strain ­ weakened from generations of being “passaged” ­ for the last 45

years! The complaint reads:

“For more than thirty years, Merck has had an exclusive license from

the FDA to manufacture and sell a mumps vaccine in the U.S. The FDA first

approved the vaccine in 1967. It was developed by Dr. Maurice Hilleman,

at Merck’s West Point research facility, from the mumps virus that

infected his five year-old daughter Jeryl Lynn. Merck continues to use

this ‘Jeryl Lynn’ strain of the virus for its vaccine today.”

A complete medical farce

This information appears to show Merck’s mumps vaccine to be a

complete medical farce. Those who blindly backed Merck’s vaccines ­ the

science bloggers, “skeptics,” doctors, CDC and even the FDA ­ have been

shown to be utter fools who have now destroyed their reputations

by siding with an industry now known to be dominated by scientific fraud

and unbounded criminality.

That’s the really hilarious part in all this: After decades of doctors,

scientists and government authorities blindly and brainlessly

repeating the mantra of “95% effectiveness,” it all turns out to be total

quackery hogwash. Utterly fabricated. Quackety-quack quack. And all those

hundreds of millions of Americans who lined up to be injected with MMR

vaccines were all repeatedly and utterly conned into potentially

harming themselves while receiving no medical benefit.

Intelligent, informed NaturalNews readers, home school parents, and

“awakened” people who said “No!” to vaccines are now emerging as the

victors in all this. By refusing to be injected with Merck’s vaccines,

they avoided being assaulted with a fraudulent cocktail of adjuvant

chemicals and all-but-useless mumps strains over four decades old. They

protected their time, money and health. Those who refuse to be physically

violated by vaccines are, once again, turning out to be the smartest

people in society. No wonder they also tend to be healthier than the

clueless fools who line up to get vaccinated every year.

Merck fraudulently misrepresented the efficacy of its vaccine and

contributed to the spread of infectious disease, says lawsuit

The faked vaccine efficacy numbers aren’t the only troubles Merck is

now facing. Shortly after the above False Claims Act was made public,

Chatom Primary Care filed suit against Merck. That document is available

from NaturalNews at:

http://www.naturalnews.com/gallery/documents/Chatom-Lawsuit-Merck-Mum…

It alleges that:

• [Merck engaged in] …a decade-long scheme to falsify and misrepresent

the true efficacy of its vaccine.

• Merck fraudulently represented and continues to falsely represent in

its labeling and elsewhere that its Mumps Vaccine has an efficacy rate of

95 percent of higher.

• Merck knows and has taken affirmative steps to conceal ­ by using

improper testing techniques and falsifying test data ­ that its Mumps

Vaccine is, and has been since at least 1999, far less than 95 percent

effective.

• Merck designed a testing methodology that evaluated its vaccine against

a less virulent strain of the mumps virus. After the results failed to

yield Merck’s desired efficacy, Merck abandoned the methodology and

concealed the study’s findings.

• Merck also engaged in “incorporating the use of animal antibodies to

artificially inflate the results… destroying evidence of the falsified

data and then lying to an FDA investigator… threatened a virologist in

Merck’s vaccine division with jail if he reported the fraud to the

FDA.”

• “Merck designed a testing methodology that evaluated its vaccine

against a less virulent strain of the mumps virus. After the results

failed to yield Merck’s desired efficacy, Merck abandoned the methodology

and concealed the study’s findings. [Then] Merck designed even more

scientifically flawed methodology, this time incorporating the use of

animal antibodies to artificially inflate the results, but it too failed

to achieve Merck’s fabricated efficacy rate. Confronted with two failed

methodologies, Merck then falsified the test data to guarantee the

results it desired. Having achieved the desired, albeit falsified,

efficacy threshold, Merck submitted these fraudulent results to the FDA

and European Medicines Agency.”

• “Merck took steps to cover up the tracks of its fraudulent testing by

destroying evidence of the falsified data and then lying to an FDA

investigator… Merck also attempted to buy the silence and

cooperation of its staff by offering them financial incentives to follow

the direction of Merck personnel overseeing the fraudulent testing

process. Merck also threatened… Krahling, a virologist in Merck’s

vaccine division from 1999 to 2001, with jail if he reported fraud to the

FDA.”

• “Merck continued to conceal what it knew about the diminished efficacy

of its Mumps Vaccine even after significant mumps outbreaks in 2006 and

2009.”

Obama administration has zero interest in actual justice

Another interesting note in all this is that under President Obama,

the U.S. Dept. of Justice showed no interest whatsoever in

investigating Merck over the False Claims Act filed by two of its former

virologists. Despite the convincing evidence of fraud described in detail

by insider whistleblowers, the Obama Department of Justice, led by

gun-running Attorney General Holder who is already facing serious

questions over Operation Fast and Furious, simply chose to ignore

the False Claims Act complaint.

When evidence of criminal fraud was brought before the U.S. Department of

Justice, in other words, the DoJ looked the other way with a wink and a

nod to the medical crimes taking place right under their noses. Who cares

if tens of millions of children are being injected year after year with

a fraudulent mumps vaccine? There’s money to be made, after all,

and exploiting the bodies of little children for profit is just business

as usual in a fascist nation dominated by corporate interests.

Pfizer sued by retailers over anticompetitive scheme

Adding to all this, Pfizer has now been sued by five U.S. retailers

(pharmacies) who accuse the company of monopolistic market practices.

According to the lawsuit, Pfizer conspired to prevent generic versions of

its blockbuster cholesterol drug Lipitor from entering the market. This

was done to protect billions in profits while making sure patients did

not have access to more affordable cholesterol drugs. Pfizer sells nearly

$10 billion worth of Lipitor each year.

According to the Reuters report on this lawsuit, Pfizer is being accused

of

(

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/05/us-pfizer-walgreen-lipitor-…

):

• Obtaining a fraudulent patent

• Engaging in sham litigation

• Entering a price-fixing agreement to delay cheaper generics

• Entering arrangements with pharmacy benefit managers to force retailers

to buy more Lipitor (chemical name is atorvastatin calcium)

No arrests or prosecution of Big Pharma executives

One of the most astonishing realizations in all this is that given

all the criminal fraud, bribery, misrepresentation, lying to the

FDA, price fixing and other crimes that are going on in the

pharmaceutical industry, you’d think somebody somewhere might be arrested

and charged with a crime, right?

Nope.

To date, not a single pharmaceutical CEO, marketing employee or drug rep

has been charged with anything related to all this fraud. In America,

drug company employees are “above the law” just like top mafia

bosses of a bygone era.

How insane is this, exactly? Consider this:

Imagine if YOU, an individual, went around town bribing doctors,

falsifying data, selling a fraudulent product to the government, lying to

regulators, engaging in anti-trade price-fixing and threatening your

employees into silence. What would happen to you?

You’d probably wind up rotting in prison, the subject of an FBI

investigation and a DoJ prosecution.

So why is it okay for a multi-billion-dollar corporation to carry out

these same crimes and get away with it? Why are the CEOs of top drug

companies given a free pass to commit felony crimes and endless

fraud?

I’ll tell you why, and you’re not gonna like the answer: Because

America has become a nation run by crooks for the benefit of

crooks. It’s one big country club, and as comedian Carlin used

to say, “YOU ain’t in it!”

If Big Pharma would falsify data on vaccines, what else would the

industry do?

I hope you’re getting the bigger picture in all this, friends. If

these drug companies routinely bribe doctors, falsify data, defraud the

government and commit felony crimes without remorse, what else would they

be willing to do for profit?

Would they:

• Falsify efficacy data on other prescription drugs?

• Exploit children for deadly vaccine trials?

• Invent fictitious diseases to sell more drugs?

• Unleash bioweapons to cause a profitable pandemic?

• Conspire with the CDC to spread fear to promote vaccinations?

• Silence whistleblowers who try to go public with the truth?

• Give people cancer via stealth viruses in vaccines?

• Destroy the careers of medical scientists who question Big Pharma?

• Force a medical monopoly on the entire U.S. population via socialist

health care legislation?

But of course they would. In fact, the industry is doing all those things

right now. And if you don’t believe me, just remember that five years

ago, no one believed me when I said drug companies were engaged in

criminal conspiracies to defraud the nation ­ something that has

now been proven over a nine-year investigation.

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