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If a mechanic took money from a tyre company and then only recommended that company’s tyres no matter how good or bad they were, would you be angry for not being given the best advice?
Or if a politician took money from a company and then exempted the products that the company sold from taxes, would you think the politician was corrupt?
Why, then, is it normal for cancer doctors to take money from pharmaceutical companies but no one seems to bat an eyelid?
In the following, Professor Vinay Prasad gives his thoughts.
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Doctors take money from pharmaceutical firms so they die with a slightly bigger number in the bank
Imagine if your car mechanic took $10,000 a year from Michelin tyres for “consulting” and then tended to recommend their tyres over Pirelli – even if the latter are on sale or better quality or both.
Imagine if your Governor took campaign contributions from Panera bread and then strangely exempted Panera bread from the new minimum wage law.
Imagine if your cancer doctor took money from Karyopharm and then prescribed the toxic poison selenexor (studied in the unethical trial Boston) over safer and cheaper alternatives.
To my knowledge, the first example didn’t happen. The second example is why people think Politicians are sleazy, and the last example is the norm in medicine.
Each year, cancer doctors – particularly academic doctors – take tens of millions in pharma payments while simultaneously writing guidelines that mandate the use of these drugs and simultaneously prescribing them to desperate sick patients who want an objective opinion, but get a biased one instead.
85% of National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines writers take pharma payments, and professional organisations are awash in Pharma cash. The American Society of Clinical Oncology (“ASCO”) – our annual meeting – is less about the objective appraisal of science and more a marketing conference for Pharma.
I don’t want to rehash the data showing taking money from Pharma is associated with greater, inappropriate, off-label prescribing, hype, spin and editorials favourable to the sponsor. There is a lot of literature there, and I have written about it extensively. Here, I want to address three things doctors who take personal payments say in rebuttal.
I have to take money to run trials
The problem with this argument is that Pharma makes two different types of payments. Research payments go to universities and fund trials, and personal payments go into the doctor’s pocket. You don’t have to take personal payments to get research payments. Vincent Rajkumar, Mayo, runs trials but doesn’t take personal payments.
I am underpaid as an academic, so need the money
This one fascinates me the most. Approximately ~100% of academic oncologists eat well every night, don’t lose their homes, send their kids to college and die with millions in the bank. Taking a lifetime of pharma payments changes the number they die with from, say, 11 million to 14.5 million, or 6 to 7.5.
Is that worth it?
Why sacrifice your integrity so that your kids fight about a marginal difference in inheritance? Also, giving kids a lot of money when you die isn’t good for them. See the literature on this.
Everyone has conflicts, pharma payments are just one
This argument is baffling. It would be like saying there are many carcinogens, tobacco smoke is just one. Sure, but it is a big f*cking one, and easily modifiable. Moreover, the data is strongest for financial conflicts – just like the data is stronger for tobacco than alcohol. But just because others drink, doesn’t mean you should keep smoking.
Greed
As I enter my tenth year on faculty in oncology, and nearly 20 years in medicine, I have come to believe that naked greed is a driving factor here. People feel satisfied knowing they are making more than their peers – even as they die without spending it all. Oncologists often love to scoop up free swag at conferences even though these largely sit unused in their homes, and who the hell really needs another notepad?
Dying with a slightly different number in the bank is just greed – pure and simple. And, if you really think your consulting is so valuable – PS it isn’t, you aren’t saying anything the company doesn’t already know – then why not do it for free? And if you won’t – what does that say about how valuable it is to society?
Oncology at the end of the 20th century and early 21st century run unethical trials with inappropriate control arms, poor post-protocol care, bad crossover and many other games, which makes companies rich and people poor. Cancer doctors take payments for these companies and go along with this narrative. The system is so rotten and corrupt and pervasive we can’t even recognise it as such.
History will view these are dark days. Where marginal drugs are given to dying people, the government is taxing poor people to pay for it, doctors are captured by companies to push these products, everyone is patting themselves on the back and the US bankrupts itself with inappropriate, harmful, useless care.
About the Author
Vinay Prasad MD MPH is an American haematologist-oncologist and Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California San Francisco. He runs the VKPrasad lab at UCSF, which studies cancer drugs, health policy, clinical trials and better decision making. He is author of over 500 academic articles, and the books ‘Ending Medical Reversal, and Malignant’. He hosts the oncology podcast Plenary Session and togethether with other medical professionals publishes articles on a Substack page titled ‘Sensible Medicine’.
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Before the fake pandemic I already had no trust in banks and politicians and very little trust in media.
Now I have zero trust in banks, politicians, media, doctors and almost every institution which is supposed to safeguard citizens or claims to improve the world.
To the point of doing exactly the opposite of what they say.
It is mostly money. The oncologists make a fortune, even if the patients dies early. Most will not allow alternative treatments, no matter how well studied and proven. The treatment of cancer is a scam! The poor patients and families are the victims. Not all of us are in on the scam. Many doctors, including oncologists, have seen through this nonsense.
And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. Exodus 23:8.
What is a “gift” but a bribe?
Bribes corrupt.
And his sons walked not in his ways (Samuel’s) but turned aside after lucre (money), and took bribes, and perverted judgment. 1 Samuel 8:3.
Truly, there is no new thing under the sun. Ecclesiastes 1:9.
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not just those type of doctors. pharma money hand outs like the money influence behind pacs in washington needs more light shed upon it because the doctors get paid to prescribe certain drugs as well.
im not sure about this , but i think it runs deeper than just cancer . possibly hiv . another virus that doesnt exist
Thank you for sharing. Sadly the entire medical and dental systems
are corrupt and hell bent on everyone being sick drug addicts. Imagine a dental system that promotes mercury silver amalgam fillings to be placed in our mouths where they break down, deteriorate, and we swallow them. The human body is not designed to be polluted by these substances. I had my fillings removed many years ago by holistic dentists who knew the proper procedures.
I have read that Chemo is made of mustard gas, the same substance apparently used to gas humans in concentration camps. Chemo is expensive poison, many patients go bankrupot trying to pay for it. I have read that it is ‘effective’ in only 4% of cancers. Chemo kills the human immune system, and the human body deperately tries to rid itself of the poison by throwing up, etcetera.
There are links between cancer and unexpressed anger. E-motions that are negative are not positive. Certain “foods” have toxins in them, or make are arteries clog. Processed and fast foods, GMO foods, non-organic foods are not healthy or nourishing. Many humans believe that pastured animal products will save themselves and the world. That is their choice, but as a long time whole food ethical vegan, I disagree. Animal proteins rot and putrefy in our body, stinking it up, among other problems. So, eliminate the causes of the problem to find the remedy. But these simple facts are not profitable for a demonic medical system.
No human is “deficient” in pharma drugs, including chemo and vaccines. So why would putting these poisons in the human body create a “cure”??.
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The Corruption of Science by BigPharma.
The Pharmaceutical Industry in the UK
£40.8bn Turnover
£5.0bn R and D Investment
£14bn Gross Value Added (GVA)
66,000 people employed by the pharmaceutical secotr 2021
£7.73bn pharmaceutical voluntary payments to the NHS
$160bn/yr sent by the pharmaceutical industry on R&D
https://www.abpi.org.uk/
What Government is going to question that funding to the economy, nefarious, or not.
Why does BigPharma fund individual medical personnel, Health Care Professionals (HCPs) with £33,790,793 in payments 2022, and Health Care Organisations (HCOs) £159,865,899? ABPI 2022 pay,emnts database
That astonishing admission from the Prescription Medicines Code Of Practice Authority PMCPA within Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry ABPI has a policy for a professional, ethical and transparent manner to ensure the appropriate and rational use of medicines and to support the provision of high quality healthcare.
However that transparent disclosure of which Pharmaceuticals is funding which Health Care Professionals begs the question; Is it promotion for better health care? or promotion for greater profits?
Is this really beneficent altruism or really all part of Corporate greed profit making advantage.
When does collaboration become graft particularly when funding individuals rather than Institutions?
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ABPI: Collaboration are helping to push back the boundaries of science
Currently the boundaries of science have been pushed back that much it is now conjecture, and assumption fiction.
ABPI; Over 750,000 people take part in NHS research
Does that mean 750,000 conscripted onto the BihPharma propaganda payroll?
Industry sponsorship and research outcome Lundh 2017
Sponsorship of drug and device studies by the manufacturing company leads to more favorable efficacy results and conclusions than sponsorship by other sources. Our analyses suggest the existence of an industry bias that cannot be explained by standard ‘Risk of bias’ assessments.
Results from clinical studies on drugs and medical devices affect how doctors practice medicine and thereby the treatments offered to patients.
However, clinical research is increasingly sponsored by companies that make these products, either because the companies directly perform the studies, or fully or partially fund them.
Previous research has found that pharmaceutical industry sponsored studies tend to favor the sponsors’ drugs more than studies with any other sources of sponsorship.
This suggests that industry sponsored studies are biased in favor of the sponsor’s products.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8132492/
It is not as if Grift and Graft in the BigPharma world is news.
American oncologists take money from pharmaceutical companies for pure greed
If a mechanic took money from a tyre company and then only recommended that company’s tyres no matter how good or bad they were, would you be angry for not being given the best advice?
Or if a politician took money from a company and then exempted the products that the company sold from taxes, would you think the politician was corrupt?
Why, then, is it normal for cancer doctors to take money from pharmaceutical companies but no one seems to bat an eyelid?
https://expose-news.com/2024/05/27/oncologists-take-money-from-pharmaceutical-companies/
Epistemic Corruption, the Pharmaceutical Industry, and the Body of Medical Science June2021
Epistemic corruption often occurs because the system has been co-opted for interests at odds with some of the central goals thought to lie behind it.
There is now abundant evidence that the involvement of pharmaceutical companies corrupts medical science.
Within the medical community, this is generally assumed to be the result of conflicts of interest. However, some important ways that the industry corrupts are not captured well by standard analyses in terms of conflicts of interest.
It is not just that there is a body of medical science perverted by industry largesse.
Instead, much of the corruption of medical science via the pharmaceutical industry happens through grafting activities:
Pharmaceutical companies do their own research and smoothly integrate it with medical science, taking advantage of the legitimacy of the latter.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8028448/
A serious case of the new World order science wher the only evidence used is “Proof by Assumption”.
The blatant current example with Covid hoax, The Chinese whispers on supposed Covid source RNA material, and the fiasco use of Sars1 2003 RNA Library sequence used for the Corman-Drosten PCR test. Totally debunked as nonsense.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346483715_External_peer_review_of_the_RTPCR_test_to_detect_SARS-CoV-2_reveals_10_major_scientific_flaws_at_the_molecular_and_methodological_level_consequences_for_false_positive_results
Real science requires hypothesis to be questioned and certainly to have those theories tested by peer group review.
No so anymore?
Certainly not with Covid, or the lethal mRNA Jab.
Instead a world led down the garden path by conjecture, assumption, speculation, supposition, presumption before the fact, and BigPharma funding HCProfessionals with £33,790,793 and HCOrganisAtions £159,865,899 as at best a serious conflict of interest or at worst grift lockstep medical profession collusion, using misinformation-disinformation, and suppression of reality for profit.
Under the admirable guise of “a relationship that we are proud of. At the core of the relationship is sharing knowledge to improve outcomes for patients”. (ABPI), lies the world of graft and grift, with nudge spinification propaganda to mislead the public
Definitely No so anymore?
Yes we all know the medical system is corrupt, but when that maybe directly responsible for 50,000 excess deaths every year then all those Politicians and media that have become wilfully Dumb, Deaf and Blind need to do their job, and start asking questions.
Yes we all know there is a Westminster Swamp but the greatest impact on society is the BigPharma Swamp.
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