INSIDE PHARMA

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Big pharma's decades suffering from the patent cliff and how it led to the COVID scam

Big pharma's decades suffering from the patent cliff and how it led to the COVID scam

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What follows is the opening of my UK Column article dated March 1st 2023, titled How Bill Gates hijacked a failing pharma system and smashed it: A tale of incompetence, deceit, greed, and an unmitigated thirst for power:

Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive!

— Marmion (1808) by Sir Walter Scott

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The Pharmaceutical Supply Chain is Broken

It began with strategic incompetence. Prior to the early 1980s, there was no such thing as Big Pharma. Pharmaceutical companies were all big in those days, because that’s what it took to develop a safe, effective, fit-for-purpose medicinal product. In the same way, there is no Big Aerospace, Big Automotive, or Big Electronics sector of those industries; small fry can't make it. A company supplying highly complex products to consumer markets must be big to get all the research and design, manufacturing, and product distribution work done.

So, where did the boutique pharmaceutical tr…

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