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Running Time: 30:32
Description: Today we examine the pharmaceutical industry’s willingness to kill in the pursuit of the almighty dollar.
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Documentation – More bitter pills for big pharma
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03:11
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Estimates the US pharmaceutical industry was worth $259 billion in 2005.
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Business Week
Documentation – The truth about the drug companies
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03:16
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Estimates worldwide sales of prescription drugs at $400 billion in 2002.
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NY Review of Books
Documentation – Fears over child epilepsy drugs
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04:37
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Reveals that drugs are not adequately tested on children, leaving doctors to guess at appropriate doses.
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BBC News
Documentation – ‘Anti-aids gel’ trial is stopped
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05:51
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A WHO trial of an anti-Aids drug increased the chances of contracting Aids.
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BBC News
Documentation – Court fines OxyContin maker $634M US
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07:22
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Purdue Pharma made false claims about OxyContin’s addictive properties.
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CBC
Documentation – Contaminated blood inquiry begins
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09:19
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‘BBC’s Newsnight programme has reported seeing documents suggesting experts were aware of the threat at an early stage, but transfusions were not stopped.’
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BBC News
Documentation – Nigeria sues Pfizer over child deaths
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10:46
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Pfizer took children out of meningitis epidemic camps and pumped them full of untested, unapproved drugs, killing, blinding and maiming them.
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The Age
Documentation – Bayer exposed (HIV contaminated vaccine)
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13:11
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Bayer corporation knowingly dumped HIV-infected drugs on European, Asian countries, killing many hemophiliacs.
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YouTube
Documentation – Vaccine
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17:45
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Wikipedia article on the history and uses of vaccines.
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Wikipedia
Documentation – Amid bird flu vaccine debate, scientists aren’t sure of protective dose
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19:24
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Doctors have no way of knowing how to pre-vaccinate against bird flu, as no one knows what the epidemic flu will look like in an infected person.
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CBC News
Documentation – MMR study doctor calls for probe
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22:09
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Dr. Andrew Wakefield defends his study showing a link between the MMR vaccine and autism and bowel disorders.
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BBC News
Documentation – MMR scare doctor ‘paid children’
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22:30
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Dr. Wakefield faces misconduct charges even as parents groups demonstrate their support.
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BBC News
Documentation – Who is telling the truth about MMR jabs and autism?
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22:40
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A report detailing a mother’s belief that her son became autistic as a result of the MMR vaccine.
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Daily Mail
Documentation – Millions in Iraq to get MMR jab
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23:33
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The WHO and Unicef are organizing volunteers to give millions of Iraqis autism…I mean MMR vaccines.
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BBC News
Documentation – Shaken babies or vaccine damage?
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24:39
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A report by Dr. Viera Scheibner on how so-called ‘shaken baby syndrome’ usually strikes babies who have recently been vaccinated.
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Nexus
Documentation – Girls to get HPV vaccine
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27:27
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Nova Scotian girls are going to be offered the new Gardasil vaccine by Merck.
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The Chronicle Herald
Documentation – Vaccine Risk Awareness Network
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29:16
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For more information about the Vaccine Risk Awareness Network, visit their website.
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VRAN
Documentation – Gardasil – the cervical cancer vaccine?
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33:52
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The FDA’s approval of Gardasil was not based on its claim that it can prevent cancer.
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Cancer Monthly
Documentation – Judicial Watch uncovers three deaths relating to HPV vaccine
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34:24
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Judicial Watch’s article including the VAERS report which details deaths and other serious reactions to Gardasil.
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Judicial Watch
More than 1 million OxyContin pills ended up in the hands of criminals and addicts. What the drugmaker [Purdue] knew.
http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-oxycontin-part2/
In an interview, Crowley said that in the five years he spent investigating suspicious pharmacies, Purdue never shut off the flow of pills to any store.