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Dr. Kevin Stillwagon's avatar

Like George Carlin reminded all of us, "It's a BIG club, and you ain't in it."

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Crixcyon's avatar

More like a ritualistic cult of demons.

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Barbara Charis's avatar

It a BIG club, but it has nothing to do with health; its all about joining a Medical Industry that thrives on selling profitable pharmaceutical products.

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Kathleen Nathan's avatar

PROFITABLE...yes....but EFFECTIVE?..NO!

Most drugs only make you sicker because they mask the symptoms while allowing the CAUSE of your disease to remain unchecked....that's the idea....to make you more "comfortable" while they suck the life out of you....making you drug dependent and ultimately unable to function without a sh*tload f stuff with toxic side effects. They are the classic "pushers" needing addicts....not autonomous healthy individuals. By the time my wonderful doctor worshiping father-in-law passed away he had a huge tray of pill bottles he was supposed to be taking all the time. One day he took all of them and threw them in the trash. He lived another couple of years and seemed to enjoy his life! Bless his memory.

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Schyler's avatar

Pithy and profound.

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R123 NEWS's avatar

Ask me for the link to the patient action group that is already fighting to reclaim healthcare for health and care

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Lydia Lozano's avatar

Maybe some of them ought to be in prison for what they've done to us. They are perching in the big Pharma companies waiting for a chance to return to government.

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Kathleen Nathan's avatar

Exactly...like the murderous "birds" they are... preying on the oblivious tax-payer....too engrossed in trying to earn enough to keep body and soul together while paying t the egregious "taxes"....so that grifters like "Dr." ROACH-el Walinsky and Christine Greedy and Anthony Fraudchi can get huge retirement pensions...

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Philanthropy Poketwanus's avatar

We reward psychopathy and punish artists and poets. You get what you pay for. 🥺

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Henry Engelking's avatar

People have to be extremely gullible and foolish to think this close relationship between regulators and industry is acceptable. For those that think this relationship is good for their health, I wish them well.

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sandy's avatar

Unfortunately Chief of Staff Wiles was a registered lobbyists in 2024 and has lobbied on behalf of big Pharma, agriculture, oil, and tobacco.

https://www.citizen.org/article/meet-susie-wiles-controversial-corporate-lobbying-clients/

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

Yes. It doesn’t matter which party’s candidate gets elected as president. They’re all controlled by the pharmaceutical industry, as well as other powerful forces. Same for Congress members…totally corrupted, regardless of party. Look for actions, not words.

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Schyler's avatar
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The existing "Ethics" regulations are incredibly loose, e.g. prohibiting a former senior regulator from "appearing before" a body a year or two after leaving their post --but not at all addressing giving "strategic advice" to the former regulated entities or communicating indirectly.

This is a huge part of The Swamp in many areas, e.g. in defense also where former Pentagon brass go on to the various defense industries whose products they once purchased, and to lobby their former colleagues to buy more (expensive) systems etc.

Throw in those a degree of separation away from former high level officials (spouses, children) and the full scope of corruption starts to emerge, e.g. the Michelle Obamas of the world getting cushy hospital "counsel" jobs for multiple six figure salaries, the Chelsea Clintons of the world getting huge CNN gigs. Then there's "book laundering" e.g. Senators and failed Presidential candidates "selling" their books to various donors by the truckload, getting huge advances on same.

Better laws would help. But in the final analysis I think that so long as too many of our esteemed "public servants" lack all sense of integrity and honor, and the voters are ignorant and incurious, corruption rules the day.

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Bon Kwi Kwi's avatar

They are made men (and women) now as pharma cartel capos

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M. Dowrick's avatar

I have to make a decision tomorrow on whether or not to change from a dmard rheumatology treatment to Humira. When I asked my rheumatologist what he would do (after explaining to him my current set of symptoms), he stared out the window for a longgggg time and finally said “that is a tough question”. Now folks let me ask you, if Humira was such a great drug, why wouldn’t he answer quickly. I also asked if Humira caused cancer, but he said that had been disproven, and then I found out, Humira has a black box warning for cancer.

Regarding these deep state actor doctors on one hand advising the health department of our governments and giving misinformation to the millions who took for instance, the covid jabs, they are then catapulted to jobs in big pharma. It is criminal. I will not accept the offer of Humira, tomorrow, simply because I DO NOT TRUST DOCTORS.

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Kathleen Nathan's avatar

HEAR! HEAR!

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Crixcyon's avatar

Once a scumbag, always a scumbag...just under different employers. Now you can be 100% sure to never trust big pharma.

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Deb's avatar

Some continue to think there's a free market (yahoo finance quickly debunks that), that it's r's vs d's (all in the same clubs) and there is an "us vs them."

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Yacky68's avatar

I hope our new administration can get to the bottom of the swamp and make it better for the American people!

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

No particular party or politician is going to ‘save you’.

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Deb's avatar

The deal with pfizer doesn't feed hope, darn it.

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dmickg's avatar

LIABILITY for pharma MUST once again become the cornerstone of patient safety!!

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Coleen Rowley's avatar

Been saying this for decades when I ran in 2006 for Congress against a retired Lt. Col incumbent who was aligned with MIC and all the other BIG corporate profiteering! MIC and Big Pharma profiteering REVOLVING DOOR CORRUPTION is another sign of decay destroying U.S. empire (and whatever decency might still remain).

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dmickg's avatar

If it does not become LAW that >no regulator of the FDA can be employed by pharma before or after being a FDA regulator<, the corruption and hence the risks to the American consumer will continue to be our reality!

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Neil Pryke's avatar

These dinosaurs are too far gone to be able to salve their consciences...

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

They have no consciences to salve.

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