So many threads attached about all manner of things on Pfizer. Well worth a read.
Some extracts below:
1/ THREAD🚨 #PfizerFiles
Pfizer has habitually engaged in illegal and corrupt marketing practices, bribed physicians, & suppressed adverse trial results.
This is no secret, yet this fact continues to be brushed under the rug by politicians & the media.https://t.co/1MXLYd4x8u
— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) January 3, 2023
2/ Pfizer’s CEO @AlbertBourla claimed during a November 2021 interview that a group of “medical professionals” intentionally circulating “misinformation” critical of the Pfizer vaccine were “criminals.”
The Pfizer CEO must have forgotten the history of his own company. pic.twitter.com/d9ZSJECM3T
— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) January 3, 2023
3/ In 1994, Pfizer paid the Justice Department to settle claims that the company lied to get federal approval for a heart valve and then covered up safety concerns even as the device killed hundreds of patients.
Pfizer paid $200M to settle lawsuits.https://t.co/256fvEI5tS pic.twitter.com/jdJXxD1I8T
— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) January 3, 2023
4/ In 1996, Pfizer gave an experimental drug to 200 Nigerian children without informing their parents that an approved cure existed or that their children were subjects of a medical experiment.
Eleven children died.
Others suffered brain damage, organ failure, or paralysis. pic.twitter.com/zQ3I0SUqLr
— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) January 3, 2023
30/ The @CCCAlliance alleged that 84% of the Pfizer report authors had a conflict of interest.
They were either employed, owned stock, or received grants from Pfizer.
For example, the two BioNTech founders, who gained more than $9 billion from the vax, co-authored the report. pic.twitter.com/7WG8J8kj70
— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) January 3, 2023
23/ In 2013, Pfizer paid $273 million to settle claims by over 2000 people that its drug, Chantix, caused suicidal thoughts and severe psychological disorders.https://t.co/QPoqEalJAh pic.twitter.com/3eAqkOyFsP
— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) January 3, 2023
15/ CNN's Anderson Cooper: If Pfizer is too big to fail and even the biggest fine in history is just a few months' profits, then what's going to stop it from illegally promoting other drugs?
Critics say nothing.
They say it's the cost of doing business. pic.twitter.com/v6KjO9h9Z2
— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) January 3, 2023
16/ In 2010, Pfizer was ordered to pay $142 million in damages for violating federal anti-racketeering laws by its fraudulent sale and marketing of Neurontin.
The jury found that Pfizer violated the RICO act.https://t.co/8LMM3UQSIt pic.twitter.com/YaqrWBTAd4
— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) January 3, 2023
17/ In 2010, Pfizer admitted that it paid $20 million to 4,500 doctors and other medical professionals for consulting and speaking on its behalf during the last six months of 2009.
The disclosure was required due to a settlement agreement for the illegal promotion of drugs. pic.twitter.com/748ywp2m7o
— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) January 3, 2023
18/ In 2010, Blue Cross filed a lawsuit against Pfizer, accusing the pharmaceutical giant of illegally bribing 5,000 doctors with lavish Caribbean vacations, golf games, cash payments, massages, and other recreational activities.https://t.co/m4rZGet5SC pic.twitter.com/5e8iCXghUY
— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) January 3, 2023
6/ In 2007, the Nigerian government sued Pfizer for $7 billion and accused the company of "carrying out illegal trials" that "killed or disabled children."
Nigeria claimed Pfizer did not inform local health authorities or parents that the children were part of an experiment. pic.twitter.com/TNV9juOYMi
— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) January 3, 2023
7/ It gets even worse.
In 2010, leaked State Department cables alleged that Pfizer had hired investigators to blackmail Nigeria's Attorney General into dropping the $7 billion lawsuit against Pfizer.https://t.co/WCAYBejLam pic.twitter.com/PoKV5WOj2C
— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) January 3, 2023
8/ The leaked cables claimed Pfizer passed "a series of damaging articles" to the media that accused the Attorney General of corruption and warned him that more negative articles would come out if he didn't drop the case.
Nigeria dropped the case in 2009. pic.twitter.com/uycfW9rWop
— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) January 3, 2023
h/t Little Lost