"Evil Pfizer’s Timeline of Disgrace Nigerian Drug Trial" (Trovan *is* a drug.)
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Subject: "Evil Pfizer’s Timeline of Disgrace Nigerian Drug Trial"
Date: Feb 5, 2011 5:42 AM
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Trovan *is* a drug:
http://www.actionlyme.org/TROVAN.htm
It's probably stockpiled somewhere
against a dirty bomb for the you
know. Greenbriar-Bunker gang.
Now, LYMErix or OspA? That was *not*
a drug, but it was, in fact, the
key to nearly all neurologic diseases
and THIS CRIME is the reason Pfizer
is bolting this criminal state.
In addition to all of this, the
idiot who complained about Trovan
was a new-hire MD (NOT A SCIENTIST)
from NEW HAVEN (hint-hint), who didn't
like the fact that one actually has to
KNOW STUFF to work at Pfizer.
He only worked there a year before he
got frustrated with the fact that there
is really no place for such a scientifically
untrained person as an MD at Pfizer.
KMDickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
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Subject: Evil Pfizer’s Timeline of Disgrace Nigerian Drug Trial
Date: Feb 5, 2011 12:16 AM
Evil Pfizer’s Timeline of Disgrace Nigerian Drug Trial
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Evil Pfizer’s Timeline of Disgrace Nigerian Drug Trial
It’s quite brilliant if you think about it.
Obviously you could never get away with testing dangerous drugs on
children in the U.S. or Europe. But really…would anybody even notice–
or care–if you used the children of Nigeria as guinea pigs for
experimental drugs?
Nah…
Or at least that’s what the evil geniuses at Pfizer might’ve been
thinking.
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Timeline of disgrace
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When the recent Wikileaks scandal broke, U.S. officials weren’t the
only ones with egg on their faces. Executives for U.S. drug giant
Pfizer were also embarrassed by a diplomatic cable.
1996: Eleven children died and many were disabled when Pfizer
researchers tested a new antibiotic called Trovan on kids with
meningitis
Hmmm. Embarrassed? No, that’s not the right word. Given Pfizer’s
ethical track record, we can assume that nothing embarrasses these
dirtbags.
As you’ll see in a moment, the diplomatic cable exposed some dirty
dealing that would make you or me (or any human) feel deeply ashamed
and disgusted with ourselves. So how did Pfizer executives respond?
They sent out a spokesperson who basically said, “Blah, blah, blah.
Deny, deny, deny.” And that was that. “Crisis” averted!
But I’m not letting them off so easy.
Here’s a quick Timeline of Pfizer’s Nigerian Drug Trial Disgrace…
1996: Eleven children died and many were disabled when Pfizer
researchers tested a new antibiotic called Trovan on kids with
meningitis. Nigerian authorities said they never approved the trial
and parents were not informed that their children would receive a drug
on an experimental basis.
1998: The FDA approved Trovan for use in adults only. But after
reports of liver failure, Trovan use was restricted to adult emergency
care.
1999: The European Union banned Trovan.
2000: The Washington Post reported that Pfizer produced a letter from
a Nigerian ethics committee that approved the research before the 1996
trial. But the letter turned out to be fabricated by a Pfizer
researcher who falsely backdated the letter.
2006: A Nigerian panel concluded that the Pfizer trial was an
“illegal” test of an “unregistered drug.” The panel called the trial a
“clear case of exploitation of the ignorant.”
2007: Nigeria filed lawsuits against Pfizer that included homicide and
other criminal counts. The legal action sought about $9 billion in
restitution and damages.
2010: Pfizer finally settled the suits for about $75 million. All
criminal charges were dropped.
So what happened between 2007 and 2010? We can assume that Pfizer
lawyers are expert negotiators. But going from $9 billion to $75
million and dropping severe criminal charges? That’s insanely
successful negotiating!
Maybe a clue to their success can be found in a missing piece of the
Timeline that came to light in that diplomatic cable revealed by
Wikileaks.
In the 2009 cable, a U.S. official revealed that a Pfizer executive in
Nigeria told him that the drug company had hired special
investigators. Their mission: Search for evidence of corrupt practices
by Nigeria’s Attorney General to persuade him to drop the suits.
In early 2010, the Nigerian AG was removed from his post just as
alleged corruption ties were being reported by the Nigerian media.
Five months later, Pfizer agreed to the $75 million payout.
See, if you’re a Pfizer official and you are accused of illegally
testing a drug on children, you don’t ask yourself, “What’s the right
thing to do here?” You ask yourself, “Who can we crush to get
ourselves out of this?”
Utterly despicable!
If we’ve learned anything, it’s that the only place drug companies and
their execs feel anything is in their wallets. So that’s where I’m
aiming.
I know most of you don’t take pharmaceuticals when you can avoid them,
but if you do, talk to your doctor about switching to a non-Pfizer
drug.
If you would rather your money go to actual R&D rather than Pfizer’s
special brand of R&D for public officials (Research and Destroy), ask
your doctor for another option.
Here’s a list of some of the most common Pfizer drugs:
Lipitor
Viagra
Celebrex
Xanax
Zoloft
Chantix
Enbrel
In each of those cases you can choose competitors’ products (or,
better yet, find non-drug solutions).
Pfizer also makes quite a few over-the-counter products that people
use everyday. But we don’t HAVE to use them everyday.
For instance: ChapStick. ChapStick could disappear tomorrow and I’d
never miss it. Burt’s Bees makes a terrific lip balm. Carmex does too.
Same with Pfizer’s Advil. I rarely take ibuprofen, but when I do, I’ve
got lots of different brands to choose from. I can go without the
Advil, no problem.
Other Pfizer products include ThermaCare heat wraps, Anbesol oral pain
reliever, Dristan, Robitussin, Preparation H, FiberCon, and the
Centrum line of multivitamins.
If you and I and all our friends and families boycott these products,
we’re not going to bring down the world’s most successful drug
company. But we’ll at least have the satisfaction of knowing our money
isn’t paying the obscene bonuses of people who really should be doing
hard time in a Nigerian prison.
www.hsionline.com
KMDickson