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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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Baldmichael's avatar

Eli Lilly and Company, its full name, anagrams to this only 2 word phrase:

- plainly demonically

Tells us what it is.

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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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Sheila Murrey's avatar

Exactly.

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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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Kathleen Nathan's avatar

This vulture was HEAD OF THE BIOETHICS OFFICE t NIH..

Get this Fraudchi's wife was HEAD OF BIOETHICS AT NIH ---o' lord--this gotta be a joke!

Dr. Fraudchi's wife: Christine Grady

Nurse-bioethicist and researcher

Christine Grady is an American nurse and bioethicist who served as the head of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center. Wikipedia

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AMV's avatar

Fauci is a criminal and murderer. He should be in prison!

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Kathleen Nathan's avatar

By Adam Andrzejewski

This week, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), announced his retirement effective January 2025. By then, he will have turned 85 years old and served in the federal government for 59 years.

Our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com crunched Fauci’s cash pension payout as of his anticipated retirement date.

TOPLINE

Today, Fauci earns a federal salary of $480,654 per year. However, by 2024, Fauci will likely be making $530,000 in salary – an increase of nearly $200,000 since 2014.

Therefore, we estimate that Fauci’s first year pension payout will exceed $414,000 – more than the salary for the President of the United States ($400,000).

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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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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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Maha's avatar

Wasn't Humira the first TNF blocker on the market? One of my patients was put on Humira by her Rhuematologist, and lost the distal end of her left thumb from taking it. It simply eroded away. The right side was unaffected. She was a 45-year old woman with some symptom relief and a strange claw like left thumb. Her RA symptoms were better so the Rheumy was happy, and the Pharma company made money. I guess they feel two out of three ain't bad.

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M. Dowrick's avatar

Appreciate your comment. Thank you.

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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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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

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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dmickg's avatar

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

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

They are beyond brazen by now. I still think it's going to take a shocking "thermo-nuclear truth bomb" to change the captured paradigm.

Getting that Truth Bomb to detonate is one tough challenge when every "truth-seeking" organization is captured.

IMO, we've got to use Substack to maximum effect while we still can.

Thanks for all your great reporting.

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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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Mike Bond's avatar

Mr. Marks reminds me of a senior partner in a law firm I once worked at. It was commonly said that you knew he was stabbing you in the back when he smiled at you.

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Kathleen Nathan's avatar

PETER MARKS =SICKENING GENOCIDAL B*STARD!

Why do we let these monsters "run" our health programs?

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Peter Krone's avatar

Well, logical that these people will go on.. If you don`t confict them of genocide they will continue with other partners of crime.. It is a bit like Project Paperclip.. Many top Nazi scientist from The Third Reich were recruted by hidden military and bioweapons project of the American government and the deep state.

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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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