{"id":2370,"date":"2021-07-16T01:19:43","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T01:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yourtrueinfosource.com\/articles\/?p=2370"},"modified":"2021-07-16T01:19:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T01:19:43","slug":"pfizers-and-jjs-history-of-crimes-and-misdemeanors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourtrueinfosource.com\/articles\/pfizers-and-jjs-history-of-crimes-and-misdemeanors\/","title":{"rendered":"Pfizer&#8217;s And J&#038;Js History of Crimes and Misdemeanors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pfizer&#8217;s History of Crimes and Misdemeanors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br clear=\"none\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehighwire.com\/videos\/a-coming-covid-catastrophe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" shape=\"rect\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/thehighwire.com\/videos\/a-coming-covid-catastrophe\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1626484735745000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE_f97_2VpobNJiA9IwEHHVrbd_iw\">A COMING COVID<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thehighwire.com\/videos\/a-coming-covid-catastrophe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" shape=\"rect\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/thehighwire.com\/videos\/a-coming-covid-catastrophe\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1626484735745000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE_f97_2VpobNJiA9IwEHHVrbd_iw\">\u00a0CATASTROPHE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"m_-8086651680403762353yiv7754398477yqtfd15208\">\n<p><strong>Richard Gale and Gary Null<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Progressive Radio Network, March 10, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Whenever it is necessary to make an evaluation of the efficacy and safety of conventional drug-based medicine, it is imperative to include the rising rate of iatraogenic injuries and deaths \u2013 medical errors \u2013 that has become the third leading cause of death in the US after cardiovascular disease and cancer. The majority of these deaths are caused by FDA approved drugs&#8217; adverse effects and when patients are prescribed multiple medications in the absence of thorough clinical research to determine the safety of their synergistic effects.\u00a0\u00a0Consequently our health agencies&#8217; oversight and monitoring of drugs on the market is dismal and deadly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Among the top pharmaceutical companies whose drugs and products have most contributed to the nation\u2019s iatrogenic epidemic is the\u00a0$51 billion\u00a0multinational behemoth Pfizer Inc, the world\u2019s third most profitable drug maker. Pfizer is one of America\u2019s oldest pharma firms, founded by Charles Pfizer and Charles Erhart in a Brooklyn red brick building in 1849. The chemical company began to boom in the 1880s after becoming the leading manufacturer of the chelating, flavoring and preservative agent citric acid.<\/p>\n<p>With its expertise in fermentation chemistry, Pfizer later became a leader in the production of penicillin and ascorbic acid (Vitamin C). Today its 300-plus drugs are commonplace in American doctors\u2019 tool kits: Zoloft, Zantac, Viagra, Enbrel, Flagyl, Lipitor, and several antibiotics. It is also a major player in the generic drug market and is rapidly becoming a leading vaccine maker with its pneumococcus vaccine (Prevnar) and more recently with its controversial mRNA vaccine against the SARS-CoV2 virus. In the irrational panic to quickly get a vaccine against the SARS virus to market, its Covid-19 vaccine was the first to receive emergency use authorization<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pfizer&#8217;s legacy of lawsuits goes back to the late 1950s.\u00a0According to\u00a0the Corporate Research Project, it \u201chas been at the center of controversies over its drug pricing for more than 50 years.\u201d\u00a0Back in 1958\u00a0it was charged by the Federal Trade Commission for price fixing and making false statements to dubiously acquire a patent for tetracycline. Two years later the Justice Department filed criminal\u00a0antitrust charges\u00a0against Pfizer\u2019s board chairman and president on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Again in 1996, the drug company paid out $408 million to settle another lawsuit for price fixing and gouging pharmacies.\u00a0In 2002, Pfizer was caught defrauding the federal Medicaid program for over-charging its flagship cholesterol drug Lipitor. Other similar charges include a $784 million\u00a0settlement\u00a0for underpaid rebates to Medicaid and $107 million fine for\u00a0overcharging\u00a0its epilepsy drug phenytoin sodium.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The company has even stooped so low as to engage in bogus advertising. Shortly after the Second World War, Pfizer created snazzy ads for the\u00a0<em>Journal of the American Medical Association<\/em>\u00a0for its antibiotic line. The ads included named physicians endorsing its drugs. However, according to a\u00a0<em>Saturday Review<\/em>\u00a0investigation, the\u00a0doctors turned out\u00a0to be completely fictitious.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As the company is positioned to earn $19 billon from its Covid-19 vaccine, at the same time it is legally battling against hundreds of lawsuits due to its popular heartburn drug, Zantac, being contaminated with the carcinogen N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), an \u201cextremely hazardous\u201d toxin used in rocket fuel and industrial lubricants. Although the FDA erroneously claims that Zantac\u2019s NDMA levels are low, they have still been measured to be between 3,000 and 26,000 times higher than the\u00a0FDA\u2019s safety cut-off point. Another adverse effect of NDMA is hepatotoxicity leading to liver fibrosis and scarring.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0the law firm Matthews and Associates, since \u201cthe history of Pfizer is rife with so much subterfuge and under-the-table dealing that the company will need all the help it can get to promote confidence in its hastily assembled Covid vaccine.\u201d If the mainstream media were to honestly cover the NDMA trial underway and other Pfizer confrontations with the law, perhaps its vaccine would not be receiving such uncritical fanfare. There would be more scrutiny and warranted suspicion to question how Pfizer could have developed a truly safe and effective vaccine in such a short period of time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In our earlier reviews of the criminal records of Merck and Johnson and Johnson, we did not find evidence of the depths of demented ethical behavior solely to manipulate its market control as we do with Pfizer. In fact, Pfizer seemingly is in competition to outdo notorious hedge fund vulture capitalist and underworld strategies to bully governments in return for securing supplies of its Covid-19 vaccine.\u00a0For example, Pfizer demanded that Argentina pay the company compensation for any civil lawsuits filed against it. The government compromised and ruled that Pfizer would only pay fines for any negligence on the company\u2019s behalf with respect to supply and distribution. But that was not agreeable to the vaccine maker. Instead it then demanded that Argentina provide its sovereign assets \u2013bank reserves, military bases and embassy buildings \u2013 as collateral to secure vaccine supplies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In Brazil, Pfizer\u2019s aggressive and malignant efforts failed. It demanded that the Brazilian government turn over a guaranteed fund deposited in a foreign bank account and that the government would waive its sovereign assets abroad. Pfizer also demanded that it not be held legally liable for any injuries or deaths due to its vaccine. Correctly, President Bolsonaro called Pfizer\u2019s demands \u201cabuse\u201d and rejected the deal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If this gives the impression that Pfizer is a serial predator on poorer foreign nations, Argentina and Brazil are only the most recent examples. In 1996, the company conducted illegal experimental trials with an unapproved experimental antibiotic, Trovan, on Nigerian children without parental knowledge or consent. The case was not raised in a US federal court until 2001 after\u00a0thirty Nigerian families sued. After 100 children were given the drug as guinea pigs, \u201celeven children in the trial died, others suffered brain damage, were partly paralyzed or became deaf.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Nigerian medical experts\u00a0ruled\u00a0that Pfizer violated international law and the US federal case was eventually settled a decade later for an undisclosed amount.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pfizer\u2019s dirty politics and in our opinion mafia-like activity in the Nigeria scandal, reminding us of Monsanto\u2019s sleazy schemes, goes beyond the dangers of an experimental antibiotic. Wikileaks made available\u00a0State Department cables\u00a0showing that Pfizer had hired spies to dig up dirt to frame a former Nigerian attorney general in order to get the lawsuit dropped. It also tried to shift the blame of the scandal on Doctors Without Borders by making a\u00a0false claim\u00a0that the non-profit charitable group was responsible for dispensing the antibiotic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Already in the US, thanks to Reagan\u2019s Vaccine Injury Compensation Act, vaccine makers are off the hook for being held legally accountable for vaccine adverse effects. Now the company is demanding that other nations change their laws solely for Pfizer to secure maximum profits from its Covid vaccine. Pfizer\u2019s actions are utterly parasitical. Nor should we forget that the development of its vaccine has largely been publicly funded. Its Covid vaccine partner Biontech\u00a0received\u00a0$445 million from the German government, and Pfizer has received almost $2 billion from US taxpayers as pre-payment for a vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pfizer\u2019s leech-like behavior goes back even further. In 2003, after it appeared that Congress might pass a bill to permit cheaper prescription drugs in Canada for sale in the US, Pfizer attempted to\u00a0change the rules\u00a0of the game and demand Canadian pharmacies to order directly from Pfizer rather than wholesalers in order to dominate the market and interrupt the supply chain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pfizer\u2019s track record for fines and lawsuits for violation of its drug safety profiles and ethical marketing are equally damning. In 2009, it was fined $2.3 billion for what was then the largest healthcare felony settlement in US pharmaceutical history for illegally promoting its drugs, including its painkiller Bextra. $1.2 billion was just for the criminal fine; at the time, this was the\u00a0largest ever imposed\u00a0in the US for any issue. In 2011, it was found guilty of\u00a0racketeering charges\u00a0for illegally marketing its anticonvulsant drug Neurontin and paid $142 million. Three years later Pfizer was fined $430 million to settle\u00a0criminal charges\u00a0for bribing doctors to promote and prescribe the same drug.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nor should we ignore Pfizer\u2019s dreadful environmental record:<\/p>\n<p>1971 &#8211; Long time\u00a0illegal dumping\u00a0of a million gallons of industrial waste annually from its Groton plant into the Long Island Sound;<\/p>\n<p>1991 &#8211; A $3.1 million fine for refusing to install\u00a0pollution control equipment\u00a0in its Delaware River plant<\/p>\n<p>1994 \u2013 A $1.5 million fine for illegal dumping at a toxic waste site in Rhode Island<\/p>\n<p>2003 \u2013 Paid a $700 million settlement for\u00a0dumping PCBs\u00a0in Anniston, Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now, we are facing the widespread distribution of Pfizer\u2019s experimental mRNA Covid-19 vaccine wherein the trials to determine its level of safety and efficacy are still underway. It is still too early to make any determination of Pfizer having been engaged in any nefarious activities to get its vaccine rushed to the public. Impropriety and medical negligence so far lies on our government\u2019s shoulders and our bought-off corporate media. Federal health agencies simply ignored their regulatory obligations and gave the vaccine a green light prematurely. Nevertheless, reports of injuries and deaths continue to mount and we will not have any sense of the full cost to human life and suffering from vaccine injuries for a while. In the meantime, China has\u00a0suspended\u00a0the mRNA vaccine after a flurry of deaths among Norwegian elderly. The\u00a0<em>Gibraltar Chronicle<\/em>\u00a0reported\u00a0the deaths of 13 people within two days of receiving Pfizer\u2019s vaccine and that number has risen to over 50 on the tiny island. Hundreds of vaccinated Israelis are still\u00a0coming down\u00a0with SARS-CoV2 infections after vaccination. The highly prestigious journal\u00a0<em>Science\u00a0<\/em>reported the growing concerns over the Pfizer vaccine\u2019s polyethylene glycol nanoparticle and its relationship to the growing number of rare but\u00a0serious allergic reactions\u00a0and cases of anaphylaxis. And in a briefing document released by the CDC\u2019s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee gave warning that the Pfizer vaccine trials\u00a0give indication\u00a0of unusual and unexpected antibody responses, cytokine storms and pathogenic priming that give rise to critical illness and death.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Therefore there is no evidence whatsoever that Pfizer\u2019s Covid-19 vaccine can scientifically and consensually be ruled as safe. But as we have observed from Pfizer\u2019s litany of criminal activities above, safety and effectiveness of a drug or product has never been a priority in the company\u2019s executive office.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All told, these examples of Pfizer&#8217;s culture of greed, deception, political maneuvering and disingenuous tactics has collectively injured countless people. Pfizer is a global corporation. Its drugs, and now its Covid-19 vaccine are marketed globally. To better understand Pfizer, the company should be perceived foremost as a cash cow for Wall Street. Its prime directive is selling drugs; its history of misdemeanors and crimes should indicate the company holds no integrity or medical ethics with a sincere commitment to prevent and treat disease. For firms such as Pfizer, injuries and deaths are the necessary collateral damage of getting poorly tested products on the market and as fast as possible. In our opinion, a black box warning should be slapped on the Pfizer logo. And should we trust such a company with the potential to vaccinate an enormous percent of the world population with an experimental vaccine?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Why Should We Trust a Vaccine from a Condom Maker?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Progressive Radio Network, March 5, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For decades, according to a\u00a0<em>Guardian<\/em>\u00a0article, \u201cconsumers worldwide have named the $347 billion pharmaceutical behemoth Johnson and Johnson (J&amp;J) as one of its most trusted brands.\u201d From its humble beginnings in the 1880s, making cotton gauze dressings and eventually band aids, baby powder and shampoo, J&amp;J\u00a0\u00a0has expanded into one of the most powerful multinational pharmaceutical and medical device companies in the world.\u00a0\u00a0In 1959, it entered the world of Big Pharma as a leading player after succeeding in getting Tylenol approved as an over-the-counter drug.\u00a0\u00a0Shortly thereafter J&amp;J commenced with a flurry of acquisitions to increase its product line, which included Neutrogena, Cordis, DePuy, Janssen Pharmaceutica and Centocor.\u00a0\u00a0Today, in most American home medicine cabinets one will find a popular J&amp;J product:\u00a0\u00a0Listerine, Tylenol and Benadryl, Neutrogena skin cream, Rogaine, Neosporin antibacterial ointment, or Destin to treat diaper rashes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now, people are eager for J&amp;J\u2019s \u201cone shot and you\u2019re done\u201d Covid-19 vaccine despite health officials\u2019 fears it may be less effective than Moderna\u2019s and Pfizer\u2019s mRNA competitors. Nevertheless, vaccination centers and pharmacies are racing to get their hands on the new adenovirus-based vaccine.\u00a0\u00a0And as we will further note below, this is from a company that has absolutely no past experience in vaccine development and manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, we need to seriously challenge J&amp;J\u2019s reputation. A\u00a02019 report\u00a0by the British intelligence firm Alva has noted that J&amp;J\u2019s reputation has sunk dramatically during the past years, from 9<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0place among 58 major pharmaceutical firms to 57<sup>th<\/sup>. Certainly, this is not a company with a clean ethical record.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A review of J&amp;J\u2019s rap sheet over the past three decades presents a dire and contrary image that should lead us to question the company\u2019s claims about its Covid-19 vaccine given the lucrative market the pandemic has created for the most aggressive medical corporations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Similar to its equally over-sized competitors Glaxo, Merck and Pfizer, J&amp;J too has had to pay out billions of dollars over the decades for civil settlements and criminal activities.\u00a0\u00a0As the pharmaceutical giant receives applause across the mainstream media for the release and FDA emergency approval for its Covid-19 vaccine, Brazil\u2019s Public Prosecution Service started an\u00a0investigation\u00a0into J&amp;J\u2019s antitrust activities under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) for \u201cpossible improper payments in its medical device industry.\u201d This was part of an FBI bribery scheme\u00a0investigation\u00a0that included Seimens, General Electric and Philips acting as a larger cartel to illegally payoff government officials in return for securing contracts with Brail\u2019s national health programs.\u00a0\u00a0The charges also include price gouging, inflating prices up to 800 percent the market price to cover bribes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time J&amp;J has violated FCPA laws. In 2011, J&amp;J was charged by the Department of Justice with conspiracy for paying off Greek doctors to advance its product sales.\u00a0\u00a0The SEC also charged civil complaints. The company had to pay out a $70 million\u00a0penalty\u00a0for buying off officials in Greece, Poland and Romania. In 2010, an executive for J&amp;J\u2019s subsidiary DePuy was sentenced to a year in prison for corrupt payments to physicians within the Greek national healthcare system.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As one of the world\u2019s leading medical device companies, J&amp;J has had its share of recalls for faulty products including contact lenses and hip implants\u00a0\u00a0In 2013, it paid nearly $2.5 billion to compensate 8,000 recipients for its flawed hip implants\u00a0\u00a0Again in 2016, another $1 billion was\u00a0awarded\u00a0to plaintiffs injured from this device.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One particular dubious activity the company became involved with in 2008 was to launch a \u201cphantom recall.\u201d\u00a0When its Motrin IB caplets were\u00a0discovered\u00a0to not properly dissolve, it hired outside contractors to buy up store supplies in order to avoid making public declaration. No one would have known of this activity and it would have gotten past the eyes of FDA inspectors had the deception not been exposed during a Congressional investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other major J&amp;J lawsuits and recalls for faulty products include:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1995 &#8211; $7.5 million fine for\u00a0destroying documents\u00a0to cover up an investigation into wrongful marketing of its Retin-A acne cream to remove wrinkles<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1996 \u2013 An undisclosed settlement on\u00a0false claims\u00a0over condom protection claims to protect against HIV and other STDs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2000 \u2013 J&amp;J\u2019s subsidiary LifeScan was\u00a0found guilty\u00a0for selling defective blood glucose monitors and failed to inform the FDA.\u00a0\u00a0All total, $105 million was paid out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2001 \u2013 Paid out $860 million in a\u00a0class action lawsuit\u00a0for misleading customers about prematurely discarding its 1-Day Acuvue soft contact lens.\u00a0\u00a0J&amp;J recommended they should only be worn once although it was discovered the lenses were no different than the regular Acuvue lens that would last for two weeks<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2010 &#8211; $81 million settlement for\u00a0misbranding\u00a0its anti-epileptic drug Topamax to treat psychiatric disorders and hiring outside physicians to join its sales force to promote the drug for unapproved conditions.\u00a0\u00a0The following year, J&amp;J paid $85 million for similar charges against its heart drug Natrecor<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2011 \u2013 Several of its baby products were discovered to contain carcinogenic ingredients<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2013 \u2013 The US Justice Department\u00a0charged\u00a0the company $2.2 billion in criminal fines for marking its autism and anti-psychotic drug Risperdal for unapproved uses. Forty-five states had filed civil lawsuits against J&amp;J in the scandal<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Risperdal is\u00a0\u00a0horrendous drug that contributes to rapid weight gain and a condition known as gynescomastia, irregular enlarged breasts in men. Semmelweis\u00a0reports\u00a0that J&amp;J\u2019s subsidiary Janssen also had an aggressive campaign to market its use in children with behavioral challenges.\u00a0\u00a0Other serious adverse effects from Risperdal reported by the FDA include diabetes mellitus, hyperprolactinaemia, somnolence, depression, anxiety, psychotic behavior, suicide and death.\u00a0\u00a0Alex Grosky was\u00a0responsible\u00a0for Risperdal sales in the US and documents have tied him to the scandal. Yet rather than force his resignation, he later became the president of Janssen and eventually J&amp;J\u2019s Chairman and CEO for a total compensation of $21.2 million.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s legal problems over Risperdal do not appear to have ended. In October 2019, a Philadelphia jury\u00a0awarded\u00a0a man $8 billion in punitive damages for failing to warn that the drug could cause young men to grow breasts. Other recent suits include litigation over its blood thinner Xarelto risks of internal bleeding, and a $775 million settlement to 25,000 plaintiffs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2016 &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0Two women were awarded $127 million in damages for the talc in its J&amp;J Baby Powder causing ovarian cancer.\u00a0\u00a0Later, over 1,000 similar cases came forward. During the trial it was discovered that J&amp;J suspected a link between talcum and ovarian cancer back in the 1970s.\u00a0\u00a0A Missouri verdict fined the company over $4 billion but it was later reduced to $2.1 billion.\u00a0\u00a0A\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0investigation\u00a0into internal J&amp;J memos uncovered evidence that the talcum powder may have contained asbestos. These cases continue. In July 2019, J&amp;J made efforts to dismiss 14,000 lawsuits over the talcum-cancer risk.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More recently, J&amp;J has been in the spotlight for its role in contributing to the deadly opioid crisis.\u00a0\u00a0The company holds the patent for a unique strain of opium poppy commonly named Norman. It is the leading provider of the opioid for Purdue Pharma\u2019s painkiller OxyContin.\u00a0An Oklahoma court ordered\u00a0a $465 million fine. This opened the door for other states to follow suit.\u00a0\u00a0To fully realize how insane the system is, the half a billion dollar civil fine was good news on Wall Street, which anticipated the verdict would be in the billions of dollars. Consequently, J&amp;J\u2019s\u00a0stock rose\u00a02 percent after the judge\u2019s ruling.\u00a0\u00a0And despite J&amp;J being Purdue\u2019s major supplier, and a major contributor in the US\u2019s opioid epidemic, the latter was forced to file for bankruptcy due to mounting lawsuits for overdose deaths.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, we might ask why a 140 year old company, with no history whatsoever in vaccine development, has now become among the heroes in the immunological war against Covid-19?\u00a0\u00a0J&amp;J is not a household name in the vaccine industry. It is utterly absent, let alone ranks among the world\u2019s 20 major vaccine makers. Among the 53 vaccines for other infections approved and\u00a0licensed by the CDC, not one is manufactured by the nation\u2019s leader in mouthwash and baby powder.\u00a0\u00a0It is therefore no surprise that the company had to partner with Merck to manufacture its Covid vaccine to meet demand. It has no history or expertise in this medical field.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, the Covid pandemic is a cash cow for the drug industry\u2019s taking. Bernstein market analyst Ronny Gal\u00a0predicts\u00a0Covid-19 vaccine sales will reach $40 billion this year.\u00a0\u00a0A more realistic figure is likely higher since together Moderna and Pfizer project their revenues at $32 billion. Then there are the other major vaccines by AstraZeneca, J&amp;J and Novavax entering the competition.\u00a0\u00a0According to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine\u2019s vaccine research tracker, over 200 vaccines against Covid-19 are in development worldwide. It is an enormous pumpkin pie and everyone in the medical universe wants a slice from it.\u00a0\u00a0So why shouldn\u2019t we expect a non-vaccine player such as J&amp;J to be eager to leap into the frenzy?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, there is a disturbing question that we have no answer for.\u00a0\u00a0How is it that a drug and household health product company, with no prior history in vaccine development, can develop and get to market its first vaccine against a viral strain tahat was only identified 14 months ago?\u00a0\u00a0Developing a vaccine requires many years and necessitates the establishment of an R&amp;D infrastructure vastly different than conventional drug development.\u00a0\u00a0The other major companies developing Covid-19 vaccines have been in the business for decades. But not J&amp;J. There is something more to this story that demands investigation.\u00a0\u00a0And if the company\u2019s long rap sheet offers any warning, it is that we must be wary of any claims J&amp;J publicly states about the efficacy and safety of its products.\u00a0\u00a0Especially when the pandemic promise to increase the profits of numerous shareholders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pfizer&#8217;s History of Crimes and Misdemeanors A COMING COVID\u00a0CATASTROPHE Richard Gale and Gary Null Progressive Radio Network, March 10, 2021 \u00a0Whenever it is necessary to make an evaluation of the efficacy and safety of conventional drug-based medicine, it is imperative to include the rising rate of iatraogenic injuries and deaths \u2013 medical errors \u2013 that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yourtrueinfosource.com\/articles\/pfizers-and-jjs-history-of-crimes-and-misdemeanors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pfizer&#8217;s And J&#038;Js History of Crimes and Misdemeanors&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourtrueinfosource.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourtrueinfosource.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourtrueinfosource.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourtrueinfosource.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourtrueinfosource.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yourtrueinfosource.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2371,"href":"https:\/\/yourtrueinfosource.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions\/2371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourtrueinfosource.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourtrueinfosource.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourtrueinfosource.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}