by Mike Adams
the Health Ranger
July 09, 2012
from
NaturalNews Website
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.
GlaxoSmithKline 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...
GlaxoSmithKline
pleads guilty to bribery, fraud and other crimes
It what is now the largest criminal fraud settlement ever to come
out of the pharmaceutical industry, GlaxoSmithKline 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,
GlaxoSmithKline:
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Routinely bribed doctors with
luxury vacations and paid speaking gigs
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Fabricated drug safety data and
lied to the FDA
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Defrauded Medicare and Medicaid
out of billions
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Deceived regulators about the
effectiveness of its drugs
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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.
As the Wall Street Journal reports:
In June 1999, popular radio
personality Dr.
Drew Pinsky used the airwaves to extol the
virtues of GlaxoSmithKline 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."
(Source)
Merck falsified
vaccine data,
spiked blood samples and more, say former
employees
According to former Merck virologists
Stephen Krahling and Joan Wlochowski, the company:
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"Falsified test data to
fabricate a vaccine efficacy rate of 95 percent or higher."
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Spiked the blood test with
animal antibodies in order to artificially inflate the
appearance of immune system antibodies.
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Pressured the two virologists to
"participate in the fraud and subsequent cover-up."
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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."
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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.
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.
It alleges that:
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[Merck engaged in] ...a
decade-long scheme to falsify and misrepresent the true
efficacy of its vaccine.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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"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."
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"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... Stephen Krahling, a virologist in Merck's
vaccine division from 1999 to 2001, with jail if he reported
fraud to the FDA."
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"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 Eric 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,
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Obtaining a fraudulent patent
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Engaging in sham litigation
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Entering a price-fixing
agreement to delay cheaper generics
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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 going to 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 George Carlin used to
say, "YOU aren'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:
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Falsify efficacy data on other
prescription drugs?
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Exploit children for deadly
vaccine trials?
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Invent fictitious diseases to
sell more drugs?
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Unleash bioweapons to cause a
profitable pandemic?
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Conspire with the CDC to spread
fear to promote vaccinations?
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Silence whistleblowers who try
to go public with the truth?
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Give people cancer via stealth
viruses in vaccines?
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Destroy the careers of medical
scientists who question Big Pharma?
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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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