The Truth About Pfizer ("What Integrity Means to Pfizer" article)
Mort Zuckerman
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Subject: The Truth About Pfizer ("What Integrity Means to Pfizer"
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Date: Oct 1, 2009 7:37 AM
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Um, what happened was Pfizer,
we, actually thought Trovan was
a drug. I remember the party and
the roll out (2 tractor-trailers'
worth of data on its way to the FDA)
for Trovan's off-sending.
But Pfizer would then have had
three block-buster drugs in a row:
Viagra, E2020 (Alzheimer's drug), and
then Trovan. And the FDA told Pfizer,
"Um, no. We're not giving you three
block-busters in a row."
Then some new-hire idiot-MD-wannabee
from New Haven decided he would "blow
-the-whistle," and claim that Pfizer
did not manage the Trovan study correctly,
which resulted in Niger's lawsuit:
http://www.actionlyme.org/TROVAN.htm
(I scanned in the Pfizer "Capsule"
article on Trovan, there.)
The idiot-MD was a new-hire, and probably
did not like how things worked at Pfizer,
where you actually have to *KNOW STUFF* in
order to keep your job. 'You actually
have to be a scientist. Nobody survives
Pfizer who is solely a blow-hard or is
a nitwit. (You can be a blow hard, but
don't dare be a nitwit, too, or you will
get the boot faster than you can say, "Whut.")
The idiot-MD was only employed by Pfizer
for about a year, if memory serves me,
before he found out how things actually
"work" at Pfizer.
So, now, play that HUGE expense in studying
and developing Trovan (I actually had my
hands on the "VALIDATION of the METHOD" part
of that 2 tractor-trailer load of data)
- which is, was, and remains a real drug-
against what here (below) is the truth about
what *ALL* PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES *DO,* which
is market drugs to psychiatrists for off-label
uses, because - and this is the most important
drug safety information of all time - psychiatrists
can, in fact, Rx any drug for any condition,
because they never meet their own DSM rules
by running scientifically valid tests (rule-outs)
on their victims (or, as seen here, are
***required to be able to read*** medical records:
http://www.actionlyme.org/PHILLIPS_JE_PERVERT.htm )
Driving home the point:
*All* pharmaceutical companies understand
how psychiatry "works," and that they,
psychiatrists, are allowed to invent "diagnoses"
in their heads, which perfectly suits
psychopharmaceuticals- all of which state
in their monographs: "We don't actually know
*how* this drug works, we're just claiming it
works."
[BigPharma "proprietary" secrets are mainly
as regards what happens to the drug degradants.]
BigPharma knows the real meaning of
the phrase, "scientifically valid."
We validate our analytical end, but
the other end, clinical, can't validate
their psychotropics, because the first
premise of psychotropica (sic) is that
there is something *physiologically* wrong
with an individual.
'Which is now scientifically proven
to be a false premise:
"But as useful as hypocrisy can be, it’s apparently not quite as basic
as the human instinct to do unto others as you would have them do unto
you. Your mind can justify double standards, it seems, but in your
heart you know you’re wrong."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/science/01tier.html
Now, while some will claim that what
some criminals do is TOTALLY INSANE! by
anyone's standards (Park Dietz)
http://www.actionlyme.org/andersonpenisbiter.htm
there was formerly another definition of
it:
http://www.actionlyme.org/EXORCISMS.htm
Now, some people made the false conclusions
that possessed people were crazy, and
that crazy people were possessed, and therefore
should be burned at the stake, but a closer
examination of what that parascience (Roman
Catholicism) was saying is that Possession
or Oppression can be "HEALED" by exorcism,
whereas psychiatry cannot "HEAL" anything because
what's "wrong" with people is not medical.
There is a completeness and a soundness
to these arguments, as shown by 1) the New
York Times' article on double standards,
2) what led the CIA to Mind Control experiments
in the first place (there was some evidence of
a 5th dimension or 3 dimensions less the 4th
dimension of time),
3) psychiatry's total lack of success in
healing people and
4) what we see in the paranormal/Ghost Hunter
shows, which attempt to demonstrate scientifically
verifiable phenomena.
So, in conclusion, I would wonder if there
was any validity to the claim that someone
at the FDA decided - emotionally or politically
(and not based on the facts) - that Trovan was not
a drug. If Trovan was a drug but was not allowed
to be a drug for political reasons, then what
happened to Pfizer's investment in developing it?
[Think.]
There is a lot more to this case, but once
again, if we were to recreate America - everyone
is calling for some new system besides
Capitalism - then for that new system for
America, I would recommend we come up with
some sort of a real Prosecutor General's
office that would prosecute crime on behalf of
Americans. 'Because this was a ridiculous
endeavor. *All* of BigPharma does this thing
the reps do in psychiatrists offices described
below.
*ALL* of them lie about "preliminary results" of
ongoing trials, and psychiatry/psychotropics is not
an area yet when people understand the FRAUD of
it.
BigInsurance uses psychiatry all the time, too,
to deny benefits, in the same way the US Military
uses psychiatry to deny a claim of PTSD and
say instead that the soldier had a pre-existing
"personality disorder." (Sure, a personality
disorder acquired by basic training, at most.)
Notice that I did not mention Lyme Disease?
That would be because psychiatric abuse of
Gulf War Illness Veterans covers it. The same
"people" who abuse the Vets abuse Lyme victims:
Simon Wessely and his pervert ilk:
http://www.actionlyme.org/ROCKET_SCIENCE.htm
As much as I, myself, am not too happy
about Pfizer for personal reasons, like,
they have totally abandoned people with
Lyme despite their Research HQ being in
the very center of the outbreak, the *truth*
about Pfizer is not exactly as this person claims.
All psychotropics are brain damaging and all of
psychiatry is a scientific lie.
http://www.actionlyme.org/BRAINDAMAGE.htm
The Truth is above any person's or
persons' interest. It just is.
Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
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http://www.counterpunch.org/rosenberg09302009.html
Oops, They Did It Again
What Integrity Means to Pfizer
By MARTHA ROSENBERG
The satire was biting:
"Thanks for making time to see me today," posted a rep on cafepharma
about a fictitious sales meeting with a psychiatrist. "Now, I know
that you used Neurontin in the past for every condition under the sun.
Pfizer knows very well that you guys were and still continue to be the
largest writers of off-label Lyrica and so, in the spirit of Bextra
[withdrawn in 2004] will you please write Lyrica as much as possible?
Remember Dr, this is Pfizer. The company that never met an off-label
sale that it wouldn't cover-up."
Don't forget, writes the next poster on the pharma site, the
psychiatrist answers, "Great! and I also heard that it is about to be
approved on state Medicaid and I can write it for anything. Is this
true?" to which the rep assents in defiance of, "that nice little 2004
CIA agreement."
Pfizer's nice little 2004 "CIA" or Corporate Integrity Agreement in
which a company promises to sin no more to which the poster refers was
for fraudulent marketing of seizure drug Neurontin. It was preceded by
a CIA for fraud related to Pfizer's cholesterol drug, Lipitor, in
2002.
And this month it's followed by a CIA for mis-marketing pain drug
Bextra, antipsychotic Geodon, seizure drug Lyrica and antibiotic
Zyvox.
Pfizer's $2.3 billion health care fraud settlement with the government
announced this month by the US Department of Justice adds some firsts
to the world's biggest pharmaceutical company.
It is the largest health care fraud settlement in the history of the
Department of Justice "to resolve criminal and civil liability arising
from the illegal promotion of certain pharmaceutical products,"--and
the largest criminal fine ever imposed in the United States. It covers
Pfizer's kickbacks to health care providers and false claims submitted
to government health care programs, also known as our tax dollars, in
violation of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. Forty-three states will
share in the "give backs."
But it is not exhaustive.
In July, Pfizer signed a $75 million agreement with Nigerian
authorities to settle criminal and civil charges over the deaths and
injuries of children given its unapproved antibiotic Trovan in 1996
now restricted for US use except in extreme cases by FDA.
Pfizer has been funding the "grassroots" organization National
Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) according to Pfizer rep Mark R.
Westlock, a whistleblower whose testimony was included in the Bextra
settlement and whose case against Pfizer is posted on Bnet.
And Scott S. Reuben, MD, former chief of acute pain at Baystate
Medical Center, Springfield, MA and paid Pfizer speaker was found to
have faked Bextra and Lyrica pain studies on which medical practice
was based in a long medical con exposed this year--not just making up
data but making up patients. PS The studies were retracted from
medical journals.
Pfizer's illegal Neurontin marketing featured the "usual suspects" of
off-label marketing, kickback schemes, Medicaid fraud and falsified
science.
But apparently New York City-based Pfizer didn't learn its lesson.
Part of the $2.3 billion settlement announced this month includes
payments to states for illegally promoting its antipsychotic Geodon
for unapproved uses like treating children and dementia in the
elderly.
In fact FDA is considering approval of Geodon for "the acute treatment
of manic or mixed episodes associated with bipolar disorder, with or
without psychotic features, in children and adolescents ages 10 to 17"
even as the settlement ink dries in what seems a little… retroactive.
Seated on the FDA advisory panel in June as a citizen providing
sunshine was a member of the Pfizer financed NAMI.
Pfizer representatives were fixtures at Western State Hospital, a
mental hospital near Lakewood, WA, according to the News Tribune,
where 118 prescriptions were written for Geodon on a single day,
December 6, 2006.
Asked by reporter M. Alexander Otto in 2007 why reps made almost 200
visits in four years, Pfizer company spokesman Bryant Haskins said,
"That’s where our customers are."
See: "That's where the money is." (William"Willie" Sutton, bank
robber.)
"[Real] scientists are *fiercely* independent. That's the good
news."-- NIH's Top Fool, Anthony Fauci