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by Richard Gale and Dr. Gary Null showing a physician (iatros) bleeding a patient. (From the Public Domain)
This troubling reality has reached such widespread acknowledgment that iatrogenic harm - injuries and deaths caused by medical treatment and erroneous diagnoses - now ranks as the third leading cause of death.
There is growing consensus that our federal health agencies, which are meant to protect public health, have failed to address this crisis in any meaningful way.
In fact, these
agencies have often undermined efforts to confront the serious flaws
in our healthcare system and in fact enable systemic corruption to
thrive within the industry.
However, there is increasing evidence that the actual numbers may be
significantly higher than what current estimates suggest, revealing
a deep and pervasive crisis within the healthcare system.
Published
in BMJ in 2016, the study highlighted systemic issues such as
misdiagnoses, medication errors, and inefficiencies in healthcare
systems as major contributors to these deaths.
Both
studies firmly position iatrogenic deaths as a leading cause of
mortality, but neither captures the entirety of the problem.
Systemic failures such as inadequate staffing, human error, mistakes in electronic medical records, and communication breakdowns account for another 80,000 deaths annually.
These numbers, while staggering,
only scratch the surface.
For example, a patient discharged after treatment may succumb to complications caused by medical errors, but such cases rarely make it into official statistics.
Similarly,
The COVID-19 'pandemic' added new dimensions to iatrogenic risks.
Treatments such as mechanical ventilation, poorly tested experimental vaccines and emergency use drugs like remdesivir have now been proven to cause enormous harm.
Overuse of ventilators, for instance, was linked to lung injuries and ventilator-associated pneumonia, contributing to thousands of deaths globally.
Remdesivir was associated with higher than expected rates of adverse effects such as kidney and liver damage. Vaccines are implicated in a wide variety of serious adverse events including,
The silent epidemic of iatrogenic deaths is a stark reminder of the fragility of even the most advanced healthcare systems.
Modern
medicine is riddled with preventable errors that cost hundreds of
thousands of lives each year and private corporate interests
exacerbate the problem.
A coordinated effort of disinformation and deception, largely based on shaky and often fabricated scientific evidence, led to outcomes that were disastrous by any measure.
At the heart of this crisis was an
erosion of trust in the very institutions that are supposed to
safeguard public health. Trust, the foundation of all human
relationships - personal, professional, and public - was repeatedly
broken by the American medical establishment.
These companies have faced lawsuits for everything from misleading marketing and price manipulation to negligent behavior and corporate corruption. While these drug and vaccine giants generate billions in profits annually, the legal consequences they face for their actions often come in the form of minor fines and rarely address any real accountability.
Executives
seldom face jail time, and companies are rarely forced to pay for
the full extent of the damage they cause. The result is a healthcare
system driven by profit at the expense of human lives.
Even in the face of overwhelming evidence of wrongdoing, including the suppression of crucial information, whistleblowers who dare speak the truth are often silenced or punished.
The recent revelations that the Biden administration spent $260 million to suppress information about the 'pandemic' and the mRNA vaccines highlights Big Pharma's financial and political power over Washington.
Those who
seek to expose corruption or question the status quo are met with
fierce opposition, while the powerful players behind the industry
continue to manipulate the narrative to suit their ambitions and
goals.
They are part of a culture that consistently puts the interests of pharmaceutical executives and investors above the health and safety of the public, and the results have been catastrophic.
Whether it is through the approval of dangerous drugs,
misleading marketing practices, price gouging, or a refusal to
acknowledge the harm caused by their products, these companies
contribute to the growing number of medically induced deaths that
plague the nation.
The medical industry's failure to address iatrogenic harm should be a wake-up call for the nation. As whistleblowers and medical professionals who challenge the status quo face increasing disingenuous tactics to silence their voices, the truth remains hidden from the public eye.
Until these issues are addressed, it is unlikely that meaningful
change will come to our broken healthcare system.
By understanding the role these companies play in shaping public health, we can begin to confront the reality of the broken system they have helped create.
From its humble beginnings in the 1880s, making cotton gauze dressings and eventually band aids, baby powder and shampoo, J&J has expanded into one of the most powerful multinational pharmaceutical and medical device companies in the world.
In 1959, it entered the world of Big Pharma as a leading player after succeeding in getting Tylenol approved as an over-the-counter drug.
Shortly thereafter J&J commenced with a flurry of acquisitions to increase its product line, which included,
Today, in most American home medicine cabinets one will find a popular J&J product:
Johnson & Johnson Headquarters in New Brunswick, New Jersey, seen 1/2006 by Henry N. Cobb from the Pei Company, built 1983. Original photo by user:ekem, English wikipedia (From the Public Domain)
These original fears are now known to be erroneous and unfounded.
J&J's vaccine was effectively removed in early 2023 due to serious adverse effects, particularly thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS) - a severe blood clotting disorder - and Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS).
These risks prompted the CDC and FDA to give high priority to the mRNA vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna) as early as December 2021.
After its vaccine's failure, the company
played no critical role in the 'pandemic' aside from providing supply
chains for the distribution of other drug companies' products.
Certainly, this is not a company with a clean
ethical record. 1
Brazil's Public Prosecution Service conducted an investigation into J&J's antitrust activities under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) for,
This was part of an FBI bribery scheme investigation that included Siemens, General Electric and Philips acting as a larger cartel to illegally payoff government officials in return for securing contracts with Brazil's national health programs.
The charges also
include price gouging, inflating prices up to 800 percent the market
price to cover bribes.
The SEC also charged civil complaints. The company had to pay out a $70 million penalty for buying off officials in Greece, Poland and Romania. 3
The
previous year, an executive for J&J's subsidiary DePuy was sentenced
to a year in prison for corrupt payments to physicians within the
Greek national healthcare system.
In 2013, it paid nearly $2.5 billion to
compensate 8,000 recipients for its flawed hip implants Again in
2016, another $1 billion was awarded to plaintiffs injured from this
device. 4
When its Motrin IB caplets were discovered to not properly dissolve, it hired outside contractors to buy up store supplies in order to avoid making public declarations.
No one would have known of this activity and it would
have gotten past the eyes of FDA inspectors had the deception not
been exposed during a Congressional investigation.
Johnson's baby powder made from talc in an old tin with a shaker on top (Licensed under CC0)
In April 2021, J&J again had to payout $5 billion to settle nationwide opioid lawsuits as part of a broader $26 billion settlement involving other manufacturers and distributors.
The
company manufactured and supplied the active ingredients such as Duragesic (fentanyl) and Nucynta (tapentadol) for which it was
busted for misleading marketing downplaying addiction risks,
aggressive promotion to healthcare providers, and creating
"pseudo-scientific" research to push opioids.
The
product was found contaminated with asbestos that J&J had prior
knowledge about but ignored the risks. This case followed an earlier
bankruptcy maneuver that was rejected by the courts.
There is something more to this story that demands investigation.
If the company's long rap sheet offers any warning, it is that we must be wary of any claims J&J publicly states about the efficacy and safety of its products.
Especially when the company's promise is to increase the profits of its numerous shareholders.
Along with the other two of the top three global vaccine makers, Glaxo and Sanofi, Merck exited the Covid vaccine arena after its candidates failed to generate sufficient neutralizing antibodies in early Phase 1 trials.
Instead the company shuffled its resources to
develop two new novel drugs to target SARS-CoV2 infections. 9
located in Upper Gwynedd Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. (Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0)
In 1975, it was busted by the SEC for illegal
payments to foreign government officials from "approximately" 36
nations. The scam was orchestrated through personal bank accounts
with the sole purpose of advancing drug approvals through foreign
nations' regulatory medical agencies. 10
At its height, Vioxx was earning over $2 billion in revenues annually and it is estimated that 25 million patients were prescribed the medication.
The securities class action suit against Merck alone
reached $1 billion, which at the time placed it in the top 15
securities lawsuits in US corporate history. The main criminal
charge was Merck's intentional withholding of scientific data about
the drug's adverse cardiovascular side effects.
Analyzing the drug's adverse effects over a longer time period, Unz estimated Merck may have been responsible for nearly half a million premature deaths in elderly patients, the drug's primary target group. 12
That is roughly the same number of total
civilian, military and terrorist deaths from the US's military
escapades in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan combined.
The Australian government launched a class action suit against the drug maker on charges that employees allegedly schemed a fake scientific paper that was ghostwritten for a medical journal in order to put Vioxx into a positive light.
Testimonies during the trial stated data was completely based upon "wishful thinking." 13
Merck had also founded the very same
peer-reviewed journal to publish its paper, Australasian Journal of
Bone and Joint Medicine. The journal was a fraud; it was not
properly peer-reviewed and its primary purpose was to promote Vioxx
on the Australian continent.
According to the documents, these physicians were targeted to be "neutralized" or "discredited."
Some, including Dr. James Fries at Sanford University's medical school, were clinical investigators who happened to speak out about the drug's shortcomings.
One email stated,
But Merck's troubles with the dangers of its products, falsifying data about drugs' efficacy and safety and exaggeration of medical claims go back sixty years.
In the 1960s, the FDA discovered that the drug maker's arthritis medication Indocin had not been properly tested for efficacy and its adverse effects were completely ignored. 15
In the 1970s, Merck's drug dietheylstilbestrol (DES) prescribed for the prevention of miscarriages caused a flurry of vaginal cancer cases and other gynecological disorders.
Merck had all along known that DES was carcinogenic based upon its own animal clinical trials. In 2007, its cholesterol drug Zetia was shown to increase liver disease.
Again Merck had known about Zetia's liver risks
but withheld the clinical trial's damning results. 16
A federal court in California found that Merck committed perjury for lying in a patent infringement case against Gilead Sciences over the latter's blockbuster Hepatitis C drug Sovaldi.
The judge ruled that Merck carried out a,
It turned out that Merck's patent claims were a
sham and orchestrated by its legal division. 18
In 2006, the IRS went after Merck for owing almost $2 billion in back taxes.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Merck partnered with a British bank to create an offshore subsidiary in tax-friendly Bermuda to divert taxable revenue on its bestselling cholesterol drugs Zocor and Mevacor through a patent scheme.
The company ran the operation for ten years
before the FDA uncovered the racket. 19
Currently Merck markets vaccines for,
On its website, the FDA assures the public that,
However, not a single Merck vaccine has ever been tested in a scientifically viable double-blinded placebo controlled trial.
In each case, the placebo in the control group was not inert, such as a sterile saline. Rather Merck tests its vaccines with the viral component against a faux placebo containing the same ingredients, including aluminum, but minus the virus.
Known as a "carrier solution," the standard scientific protocol does not designate it as a proper placebo for measuring the efficacy and disease risks of a drug.
And in the case of Gardasil, the trial was statistical trickery to mask Gardasil's adverse effects. One placebo group received the company's proprietary adjuvant amorphous aluminum hydroxyphospate sulfate (AAHS), a known neurotoxin.
The adjuvant has yet to be properly tested for safety. 20
One of the more serious risks of aluminum adjuvants is the triggering of an extreme autoimmune response, what Israeli immunologist Yehuda Schoenfeld has called,
In 2016, the investigators in a Cochrane Database Collaboration
analysis of Merck's Gardasil were so alarmed they filed a complaint
against the European Medical Agency for failing to adequately assess
the vaccine's neurological harms.
Gardasil 9 in French packaging (showing the MSD branding) (Licensed under CC0)
His in-depth investigations through his Children's Health Defense organization uncovered evidence that the vaccine increases birth defects in children conceived of HPV-vaccinated moms; miscarriages have increased 2000 percent above normal, and girls are experiencing serious reproductive complications, including infertility, at approximately ten-fold above the normal rate.
During an interview on the Progressive Radio Network, Kennedy noted that there was 10 times greater risk of dying from cervical cancer among Gardasil trial participants compared to the general public.
There is
a 10-fold increase for ovarian failure, and 1 in 37 girls who
receive the vaccine will experience an autoimmune disease after 6
months of receiving the series of injections.
The most frequent adverse effects were arthritis and arthropathy, autoimmune thyroiditis, celiac disease, hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism, inflammatory bowel disease, psoriasis, Raynaud's Phenomenon, rheumatoid arthritis and uveitis.
He stated that according to
Merck's own statistics, girls are one hundred times more likely to
experience a serious adverse effect from the vaccine than to be
protected from cervical cancer.
One strategy Merck has employed is to take
advantage of FDA loopholes to fast track its drugs. 21
The two Merck whistleblowers, virologists Stephen Krahling and Joan Wlochowski, filed a lawsuit against Merck for being in violation of the False Claims Act. According to the charges, Merck had "falsified its mumps vaccine test results to hit an efficacy rate of 95 percent.
The company achieved this by adding,
This would certainly explain why mumps outbreaks in summer camps and on college campuses are found to occur among those vaccinated.
The case was settled out
of trial and the plaintiffs received an undisclosed amount from
their former employer.
When the documentary film was officially selected to screen during the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival in Manhattan, we discovered in an earlier report that Merck left its fingerprints on the film's removal and censorship.
The Alfred Sloan Foundation is the festival's largest sponsor; pro-vaccine advocate Bill Gates is also a notable contributor.
One of the leading persons on the Foundation's board of trustees was Dr. Peter Kim.
The film presents a harsh indictment against Dr Julie Gerberding, the former head of the CDC who allegedly coordinated the cover up of data that confirmed,
After managing the agency's operations to mine sweep the data and generate new studies with public funds to suggest thimerosal's safety, Gerberding accepted her reward from the pharmaceutical industry by becoming the head of Merck's vaccine division.
In addition, according to the whistleblowing of a senior CDC scientist, Dr. William Thompson, Gerberding was allegedly responsible for destroying the CDC's research that showed African American boys were at a substantially higher risk of becoming autistic from Merck's MMR vaccine.
Fortunately, Dr. Thompson, who was present during the order to shred documents, saved copies which he subsequently turned over to Congressman Bill Posy and an independent biologist Prof. Brian Hooker.
Since then, Congress has
refused to hold hearings thereby supporting the cover-up.
Plaintiffs have argued that Merck failed to warn users of Zostavax's
risks. In 2020, a jury awarded $120 million in punitive damages in
one case while others remain pending.
In 2021, Organon spun off from Merck, thereby limiting Merck's
direct involvement as compared to litigations against larger opioid
producers such as Purdue Pharma and J&J.
In reversal, Merck sued the Department of Health and Human Services last year claiming that the Act violated its Fifth Amendment privileges by harming its profits and threatening future drug innovation.
All told, these examples of Merck's culture of greed, deception, political maneuvering and aggression has collectively injured countless people.
Its prime directive is selling drugs; its history of crimes and misdemeanors should indicate the company holds little integrity in its commitment to prevent and treat disease.
The full extent of the casualties from Merck's drugs and vaccines may never be properly calculated.
For firms such as Merck, Pfizer and Johnson and Johnson, injuries and deaths are the collateral damage of getting poorly tested products on the market and as fast as possible.
Therefore it is crucial to RFK's efforts to rein drug and vaccine makers such as Merck for the public good.
Cleaning the federal health agencies from coercive corporate interests will the entire edifice of vaccine pseudoscience and the public will realize that for decades it has been guinea pigs for extremely lucrative cash cows.
The majority of these deaths are caused by FDA approved drugs' adverse effects and when patients are prescribed multiple medications in the absence of thorough clinical research to determine the safety of their synergistic effects.
Consequently our health agencies' oversight and
monitoring of drugs on the market is dismal and deadly.
World Headquarters building (1961–2023) (Licensed under CC BY 2.0)
Pfizer is one of America's oldest pharma firms with 300-plus drugs and vaccines commonplace in American doctors' tool kits:
It is also a major player in the generic drug market and more recently dominates the Covid-19 vaccine market with this mRNA gene therapy injections.
In the irrational panic to quickly get
a vaccine against the SARS virus to market, its Covid-19 vaccine was
the first to receive emergency use authorization
According to the Corporate Research Project, it,
Back in 1958 it was charged by the Federal Trade Commission for price fixing and making false statements to dubiously acquire a patent for tetracycline. 24
Two years later the Justice Department filed criminal antitrust charges against Pfizer's board chairman and president on the matter. 25
Other similar charges include a $784 million
settlement for underpaid rebates to Medicaid and $107 million fine
for overcharging its epilepsy drug phenytoin sodium. 27
The ads included named physicians endorsing its
drugs. However, according to a Saturday Review investigation, the
doctors turned out to be completely fictitious. 28
At the same time it is legally battling against hundreds of lawsuits due to its popular heartburn drug, Zantac, being contaminated with the carcinogen N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), an "extremely hazardous" toxin used in rocket fuel and industrial lubricants.
Although the FDA erroneously claims that Zantac's NDMA levels are low, they have still been measured to be between 3,000 and 26,000 times higher than the FDA's safety cut-off point. 29
Another adverse effect of NDMA
is hepatotoxicity leading to liver fibrosis and scarring.
There would be more scrutiny and
warranted suspicion to question how Pfizer could have developed a
truly safe and effective vaccine in such a short period of time.
It has a reputation to outdo notorious hedge fund vulture capitalists and underworld strategies to bully governments in return for securing supplies of its products.
For example,
If this gives the impression that Pfizer is a serial predator on poorer foreign nations, Argentina and Brazil are only two examples.
In 2003, after it appeared that Congress might
pass a bill to permit cheaper prescription drugs in Canada for sale
in the US, Pfizer attempted to change the rules of the game and
demand Canadian pharmacies to order directly from Pfizer rather than
wholesalers in order to dominate the market and interrupt the supply
chain. 34
In early 2024, Pfizer settled a significant antitrust lawsuit for $93 million after being caught conspiring with Ranbaxy Laboratories to delay the market entry of generic versions of its blockbuster cholesterol drug Lipitor.
Plaintiffs accused Pfizer of using
fraudulent patents and incentivizing Ranbaxy to postpone competition
in order to protect Lipitor's high price.
The case turned into a Medicaid fraud and cost the company $784 million in fines.
In 2021, Pfizer settled a class
action suit for $345 million after price gouging its EpiPen, a
life-saving allergy treatment by increasing the cost from $100 for a
two pack to over $600.
China suspended the mRNA vaccines after a flurry of deaths among Norwegian elderly.
The highly prestigious journal Science reported the concerns over the Pfizer vaccine's polyethylene glycol nanoparticle and its relationship to the serious allergic reactions and cases of anaphylaxis. 38
And in a briefing released by the CDC's Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee gave warning that,
Therefore there is no evidence whatsoever that Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine can scientifically and consensually be ruled as safe.
But as
we have observed from Pfizer's litany of criminal activities above,
safety and effectiveness of a drug or product has never been a
priority in the company's executive office.
Pfizer's prime directive is selling drugs; its history of misdemeanors and crimes should indicate the company holds no integrity or medical ethics with a sincere commitment to prevent and treat disease.
For firms such as Pfizer, injuries and
deaths are the necessary collateral damage of getting poorly tested
products on the market and as fast as possible. In our opinion, a
black box warning should be slapped on the Pfizer logo.
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Rather, it will only worsen as we witnessed during the
'pandemic'...
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