"Seek them out and destroy them where they live."
Remembering Merck's Australian doctor hit list.
This evening I pondered the news of Caroline Kennedy’s hit letter against her cousin, RFK, Jr., and the fact that she was the Biden Administration’s Ambassador to Australia, and the fact that she has served as a powerful ambassador for Merck’s Gardasil vaccine.
The association of Australia and Merck reminded me of the company’s “seek out and destroy” campaign against Australian doctors who expressed concern that the company’s blockbuster Vioxx seemed to be causing heart attacks and strokes. As was reported by CBS in May 2009:
Merck made a "hit list" of doctors who criticized Vioxx, according to testimony in a Vioxx class action case in Australia. The list, emailed between Merck employees, contained doctors' names with the labels "neutralise," "neutralised" or "discredit" next to them.
According to The Australian, Merck emails from 1999 showed company execs complaining about doctors who disliked using Vioxx. One email said:
“We may need to seek them out and destroy them where they live …”
During this same period in the United States, Merck was accused of concealing negative results of clinical Vioxx trials from the FDA and paying reputable doctors to put their names on research they did not conduct or write up. The company also published a fake journal, paying Elsevier to create a phony publication to serve as a marketing tool titled the Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine.
Ultimately the company was found guilty of knowingly concealing data about the elevated risk of stroke and heart attack from Vioxx and agreed to pay a class action settlement to stroke and heart attack victims totaling $4.85 billion.
I wonder if the nice folks at Merck would ever yield to the temptation to overstate the benefits of the HPV vaccine and downplay its risks, as some plaintiffs have alleged. I also wonder if the company’s PR department might yield to the temptation to smear RFK, Jr. during his Senate confirmation process.
Or am I just being cynical?
Critical thinking and common sense seem to be evaporating from the minds of most Americans as is the knowledge that drug companies have over time willingly been willing to make and murder and pay out in lawsuits or fines because the profits in these ‘killer’ drugs far outweighs the cost of their criminal negligence! What’s millions of dollars I settlements and fees when the profits are in the billions. Human life for the Pharma cartel is valued only as long as we can buy their poisons! Death is irrelevant to them they are soulless
Did you know that the Australian government sought to suppress Dr Naomi Wolf's book The Pfizer Papers? Their excuse was that the book would be "harmful". Not "fake news", just "harmful".
Albo is neck-deep in shitfuckery. Baby killer.