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Oh_Well_ian ago

Remember, the CEO of Merke, Kenneth Frasier, took a break from running one of the 10 largest corporations in the world to cover up investigate the Penn State Scandal.

https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/2062788

carmencita ago

There are parallels between the situations at Merck and Penn State. Merck had a legal duty to warn patients that Vioxx could cause heart attacks, and Penn State had at the very least an ethical duty to tell police that Jerry Sandusky may be a pedophile. Neither institution fulfilled its responsibilities, with devastating consequences for those on the outside. According to research published in the Lancet, a British medical journal, Vioxx caused between 88,000 and 140,000 cases of serious heart disease in the United States before Merck withdrew the drug in 2004. Roughly one-half those cases ended in death. We know that Penn State’s failure to alert police to the 2002 report of alleged rape enabled Sandusky to claim at least one additional victim in subsequent years. The boy, identified only as Victim 1 in the grand jury report, was 11 or 12 when he met Sandusky through the former coach’s charity in 2005 or 2006, and testified that Sandusky performed oral sex on him more than 20 times between 2007 and early 2008. The grand jury’s investigation was triggered when the boy blew the whistle on Sandusky in 2009.

Merck and Penn State have something else in common: Their failure to act creates substantial civil liability, and it is here that Frazier’s experience at Merck may be most useful to Penn State. As he showed with the Vioxx litigation, Frazier is adept at mounting a scorched-earth defense that minimizes payouts to potential plaintiffs.

It's always about their disgusting perverted sex and money.

Narcissism ago

A quarter of a million Americans died or had their life span severely limited by 4 recent drugs: Vioxx Avandia Trasylol Bextra

In 2009 Pfizer paid $2.3Bn in criminal damages for acting "with the intent to defraud or mislead." regarding Bextra. Pfizer "too big to nail" was allowed to set up a subsidiary (which has never sold a single pill) to pay the fine.

When Big Pharma kills, no one goes to prison.

carmencita ago

Exactly. So agree. Also there has been proof that Bill G and Bill C are responsible for watering down the HIV vacs in Africa. Nothing has been done. First of all I must say that most people won't believe it anyway. About the drug companies, they will. That is what has to be pounded home every day. But again as you say they can pay to go away. There is a huge amt. of money used to pay off their guilt. But there was a post this weekend about Canada granting a new trial for a set of parents that were being charged for refusing to vac their child. They child died and they were being charged for not letting them vaccinate him. Now they have discovered there was collusion by drug companies and the hospital and others. Hopefully this will be a Groundbreaking Case. We must keep watch.