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The drug industry’s aggressive reputation began with Pfizer in the 1950s and 1960s

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Dr. Vernon Coleman’s track record of spotting health dangers is second to none. Since the 1970s, when his first two groundbreaking books (‘The Medicine Men’ and ‘Paper Doctors’) were published, Dr. Coleman has been gaining friends among patients and enemies among doctors and drug companies.

In ‘The Medicine Men’, Dr. Coleman drew attention to the dangerously close relationship between the medical establishment and the pharmaceutical industry.   

The following article is taken from `The Medicine Men’ by Vernon Coleman, first published in 1975 but now available again.

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By Dr. Vernon Coleman

During the postwar years, millions of pounds were spent on developing new and more effective antibiotics. In 1955 Beecham began to study penicillin and started to look for a penicillin which could be given orally and which would have a wider range of activity than the penicillins already available. Their research proved more fruitful than they could have hoped for. In 1957 Beecham scientists isolated the nucleus of the penicillin molecule and they had at their fingertips a whole new range of drugs. In 1959 they made their first semi-synthetic penicillin.

One of the American companies which had helped with the production of penicillin during the war was Pfizer, a chemical company which also discovered the extremely useful antibiotic oxytetracycline.

At the time of this discovery, Pfizer did not themselves market drugs but as a result of this success they decided to do so; they spent an estimated half a million dollars in two months on promoting their new drug. In two years, in the early 1950s, they spent seven-and-a-half million dollars on advertising, using telegrams, telephone calls to doctors, direct mail shots and hospital displays. It was the first time a company had used ordinary commercial methods to sell a drug to doctors. By 1951 Pfizer had three hundred representatives, or “detail men,” and their brand had a quarter of the broad spectrum antibiotic market, which showed that their techniques had paid off.

Pfizer raised the level of competition in the drug industry and grew rapidly. Their aggressive methods have certainly brought them success but they have also brought controversy. In 1961 the British Minister of Health, Enoch Powell, decided that Pfizer were charging too much for their tetracycline, and he took the unusual step of invoking the Patents Act and importing antibiotics from Italy where there are no patents on drugs. A good deal of bitterness followed these affairs and the drug industry’s evil image seems to date from this era.

About the Author

Dr. Vernon Coleman MB ChB DSc practised medicine for ten years. He has been a full-time professional author for over 30 years. He is a novelist and campaigning writer and has written many non-fiction books.  He has written over 100 books which have been translated into 22 languages. On his website, www.vernoncoleman.com,  there are hundreds of articles which are free to read.

Featured image: Pfizer Family Products box packaging (left) sample box contents (right) pre-1972

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Rhoda Wilson
While previously it was a hobby culminating in writing articles for Wikipedia (until things made a drastic and undeniable turn in 2020) and a few books for private consumption, since March 2020 I have become a full-time researcher and writer in reaction to the global takeover that came into full view with the introduction of covid-19. For most of my life, I have tried to raise awareness that a small group of people planned to take over the world for their own benefit. There was no way I was going to sit back quietly and simply let them do it once they made their final move.

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Brin Jenkins
Brin Jenkins
1 year ago

I worked in the Institute of Aviation Medicine and several doctors there echoed these vaccine warnings advising natural immunity was the safer method so I have avoided jabs on the ever since. Another Doctor a voice in the wilderness cried over the abuse of penicillin, time is proving they were correct not big pharma and Government. I also learned my Physics around this time and know the lies and false science promoted requiring net zero to cure a non problem that is non existent, climate always changes and CO2 is a requirement for living and in recycling wasted matter.

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Dave Owenhttps://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/for
1 year ago
chris
chris
1 year ago

no, no , no. Dr. Coleman and this article does NOT have the full background… Pfizer by purchasing Wyeth got its entire history ever since 1860… It was Wyeth who had that patent for the 1987 peplomeric protein 37% IDENTICAL with the SARS-CoV-2 Spike encoded by its genome, injected into arms of billions!! All described in few posts at me******@******ck.com Never followed up more on this thread, just too much of everything everywhere

Brad
Brad
1 year ago

Since 1975 they have been Rewriting the Human Genome
https://www.nature.com/articles/455290a

https://academic.oup.com/jlb/article/7/1/lsaa006/5841599

Participants agreed on the final day of the conference that research should continue, but under stringent restrictions. The recommendations formed the basis of the official US guidelines on research involving recombinant DNA, issued in July 1976. They have proved remarkably effective.

In the 33 years since Asilomar, researchers around the world have carried out countless experiments with recombinant DNA without reported incident.

Many of these experiments were inconceivable in 1975, yet as far as we know, none has been a hazard to public health.

Moreover, the fear among scientists that artificially moving DNA among species would have profound effects on natural processes has substantially disappeared with the discovery that such exchanges occur in nature.

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