Pierwszy z podlinkowanych materiałów zawiera listę największych skandali z udziałem firm farmaceutycznych według kwoty ugody zawartej z władzami USA. Jak widać brylują na niej...producenci szczepionek, którymi obecnie szczepi się cały cywilizowany świat. Pogwałcenie prawa jakiego dopuściły się te farmaceutyczne Behemoty polegało głównie na korupcji oraz reklamowaniu produktu niezgodnie z jego właściwościami zatwierdzonymi przez władze (czyli że produkt jest dobry nie tylko na to co na naklejce ale w ogóle jest dobry na wiele innych dolegliwości).
Drugi materiał to świetny artykuł pokazujący koszmarne oblicze "Big Pharm" z nadzieją wyrażoną w nim, iż być może teraz ów megakompleks farmaceutyczny zrehabilituje się za wszystkie swe ogromne świństwa i łamanie prawa w przeszłości - produkując szczepionki, które uratują świat przed Apokalipsą. Jednakże po jego lekturze trudno jest być.... optymistą. Po jego lekturze człowiek o zdrowych moralnych zasadach dochodzi do wniosku, że szczepionki firm jak z listy podlinkowane winny być......bojkotowane ze względów...... etycznych.
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"The major problem with the drug giants is their unhealthy influence over medical science. The industry dominates research, and there's strong evidence that company-sponsored studies tend to have a bias which favours the sponsor's product.Medical education is also heavily sponsored, with evidence suggesting an association between a doctor accepting just one meal at an "educational event", and prescribing more of the sponsor's drugs."

"And the guidelines which can be so influential over a doctor's prescribing decisions are too often written by medical experts with ties to drug companies.
Central to this marketing effort are these senior medical experts, sometimes called "key opinion leaders", who claim to be independent yet accept fees for advice, consultancies or "educational" presentations to other doctors."

"A former top-selling drug company sales representative turned whistleblower put it plainly in a 2008 piece in The BMJ:
Key opinion leaders were salespeople for us, and we would routinely measure the return on our investment, by tracking prescriptions before and after their presentations.
If that speaker didn't make the impact the company was looking for, then you wouldn't invite them back.
Unhealthy marketing means the latest most expensive pill is too often favoured over older cheaper options, or doing nothing at all, causing much harm and wasting precious resources".

"In 2009 came the biggest health-care fraud settlement in history. Pfizer was forced to fork out a US$2.3 billion fine for illegal promotion, false and misleading claims about drug safety, and paying kickbacks to doctors. That included a US$1.2 billion criminal fine, the largest ever in a US criminal prosecution.One of the whistleblowers in that case happened to be a member of a special Pfizer sales team promoting Viagra. He revealed doctors were taken to breakfasts, lunches, dinners, Broadway shows, baseball games, golf courses, ski fields, casinos and strip clubs.In 2013, Johnson & Johnson paid out US$2.2 billion in civil and criminal fines for putting "profit over patients' health". The company had illegally promoted powerful anti-psychotic drugs as behaviour control for the elderly and most vulnerable, overstating benefits and playing down dangerous side effects, including stroke."