Transcript Are We All Pharma Monkeys Now?

Are We All Pharma-Monkeys Now?
Drug Companies:Saviours of the Planet
Or
The Most Evil Embodiment of
Unrestrained Neo-liberal Capitalism?
All in the Name of Profit
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Sponsor charities: Alzheimers’s, osteoporosis
Sponsor fake ‘independent’ journals
Conceal negative results, skew meta-analyses
Remove drug from market before patent ends
Lobby for DTC at National, European Govts
Conceal side-effects and delay decisions; FDA
Sponsor/Control meetings; David Healy
Ghost write articles in journals, for speakers
All in the Name of Profit
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Sponsor charities: Alzheimers’s, ostoporosis
Sponsor fake ‘independent’ journals
Conceal negative results, skew meta-analyses
Remove drug from market before patent ends
Lobby for DTC at National, European Govts
Conceal side-effects and delay decisions; FDA
Sponsor/Control meetings; David Healy
Ghost write articles in journals, for speakers
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Drug companies are companies
Legally, companies’ purpose to is make profits
Medicines are just products to companies
Companies are not immoral, but amoral
Talk to Reps, but keep your fingers crossed
and your minds open
• Your obligation is to the patient in front of you
• There is no such thing as a free lunch
There is no such thing as
a free lunch
• www.Nofreelunch.org
• www.pharma-watch.com
• www.accessmed.msf.org