Drug Company Merck Tries to “Silence” Doctors
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Merck is a pharmaceutical company that makes the drug Vioxx. Internal company emails were uncovered that revealed the company had a “hit list” of doctors, researchers, and academics who criticized the drug Vioxx. The emails said something to the effect that these doctors should be “neutralized.”
There are also allegations that the company used intimidation tactics to silence critics of the drug. These alleged tactics include dropping funding for institutions and interfering with academic appointments.
“We may need to seek them out and destroy them where they live,” a Merck employee wrote, according to an email excerpt read to the court by Julian Burnside QC, acting for the plaintiff.
Over 1,000 Australians are suing Merck for Vioxx related heart attacks and strokes. According to the FDA., Vioxx was responsible for about 27,000 deaths by 2004.
Even after all that, the company is still making concerted effort to make the drug appear safe. This is just another example of blatant greed and manipulation by a drug company, at the expense of people’s health and lives.
Would you really trust any pharmaceutical company to maintain a high level of ethics or to have your best interests in mind? I wouldn’t. I do all my own research before anyone puts anything in my body. I encourage you to do the same.
I read on some blog (I can’t remember where) about a chemist who had a job interview at a pharmaceutical company, and when he asked about the industries efforts to cure illness the interviewer told him:
“Our industry is based on sustainability.”
You know what that means don’t you? It means drug companies do not like illness to be cured. They intentionally want your illness to be “sustainable”. It makes perfect business sense. That might be okay if you are selling disposable Kleenex. But it is not okay when you are toying with peoples’ health and even their lives. It is even less okay when companies deliberately try to give you the impression that they are trying to help you, yet are knowingly inflicting harm on you. It is evil, and people need to wake up.
You can read the story here.
Disclaimer: This article is not medical advice. This is opinion and is for informational purposes only. If seeking medical advice, consult a licensed physician.
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[...] Living presents Drug Company Merck Tries to “Silence” Doctors posted at Scientific Living, saying, "Merck had an internal "hit list" of doctors they [...]
[...] Living presents Drug Company Merck Tries to “Silence” Doctors posted at Scientific Living, saying, “Merck had an internal “hit list” of doctors [...]
This isn’t the only drug. Try statins. Talk about dangerous! There are tons of people who have bad reactions to it, but the drug company has convinced doctors, who parrot the company line: “There is no such thing as an allergy to statins.” Not only doctors, but also the FDA parrots this (they are, coincidentally, trying to outlaw acetaminophen except by prescription, and trying to stop combination narcotics on which many cancer patients and others depend for pain relief, instead of addressing real issues like this one).
I had an allergy to statins. Allergy to them nearly killed my mother, my uncle, and me. I had to treat Mom myself, with antihistamines and ranitidine (generic Zantac, which works by blocking a different type of histamine than a typical antihistamine does). I watched her like a hawk, hardly daring to leave her side, because when they gave it to her behind my back at the hospital, they refused to take responsibility for addressing her allergy response because “there’s no such thing as an allergy to statins.”
A friend knows of someone who has collected articles on the number of deaths caused by statins, and the number of severe allergy reactions which were attributed to other medications or to foods to avoid blaming the real culprit – statins. I have realized that as soon as one is published online, copy and paste it – because it WILL be removed. Not one bit of information that there is a statin allergy must be allowed to exist in the medical community, because statins don’t cause allergy reactions.
Imagine that – a substance to which no one is truly allergic. If you believe that, you probably play poker with the tooth fairy, Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Great Pumpkin. And lose!
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A DRUG TO WHICH NO ONE HAS AN ALLERGY, ONLY SIDE EFFECTS THEY DON’T WANT TO ENDURE. IF THERE ARE NO STATIN ALLERGIES, WHY TELL PEOPLE ON TV ADS THAT THEY NEED TO REPORT CERTAIN PROBLEMS AS THEY MAY BE DANGEROUS? THE MUSCLE PAIN THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT CAUSES A BREAKDOWN OF MUSCLES THAT WILL RUIN YOUR KIDNEYS WHILE IT’S DESTROYING YOUR MUSCLES, AND WILL MAKE YOUR BODY TOO ACID, A CONDITION CALLED METABOLIC ACIDOSIS. I DON’T CALL THAT A SEVERE SIDE EFFECT – I CALL THAT AN ALLERGY, ESPECIALLY SINCE THE CONDITION CAN BE FATAL.
Thanks for the real life story! The world is a fairy tale until you get hit with a hammer.
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