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Reader East of Albuquerque's avatar

I really appreciate your reporting on this. These brazen conflicts of interest are so tiresome. In my mind's eye I see a very large rock... that just so happens not to be quite large enough for this person to hide under.

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Hedley Rees's avatar

Think Scott Gottlieb, FDA Commissioner that joined the Pfizer Board - he laid the groundwork!!!

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DoorlessCarp🐭's avatar

The rapid approval process for these snake oils is also confirmation that genotoxicity is not their concern.

Rodent studies for cancer alone take 2 years.

"... We also need to ensure there is an acceleration in approvals back to around 12 to 15 months for new generic medicines."

https://pharmaceutical-journal.com/article/news/medicines-regulator-eliminates-100-day-medicines-approvals-backlog

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Hedley Rees's avatar

Spot on…

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Patricia's avatar

Seems like the end goal would be to have most of us on one kind of gene based product or another. In my dystopian vision I can see 'them' testing babies at delivery and the AI prescribing 'remedial' gene based products to optimise the baby. It is just all so horrific. The secret to nature is diversity and they want none.

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Hedley Rees's avatar

Me thinks it was more about survival of the big pharma companies, Patricia. How else was Pfizer going to make $80 billion from a single drug? If you can, try to steer away from the dystopian angle, and think massive fraud to make $$$$$$$$$

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Patricia's avatar

Yes but my dystopian vision would make the big pharma a whole lot more in the future and they always seek more.

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Xuewu Liu's avatar

Regarding gene-editing technology, my opinion is that humans might be able to manipulate it but cannot accurately predict its consequences. If its approval is accelerated, it could spell disaster for patients utilizing the technology. Complex problems are not resolved simply through advanced technology.

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Hedley Rees's avatar

That is music to my ears!!! Exactly that - just like any hugely complex system, it's impossible to predict what will happen to the system (human body) when something unknown goes in - today's drug development is pure guesswork....

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Kannan Janakiraman's avatar

The cover up continues by will full repurposing of a failed medicine and renaming a failed technology ............... " covid mRNA vaccine prevents deaths instead of viral transmission"

"mRNA technology is advanced therapy instead of gene therapy"

The inconvenient truth is that, it failed to prevent spread of the disease causing agent (according to the definition of vaccine). and therefore does not justify the need for booster doses.

The staged pandemic clearly became a fertile ground for testing, promoting, selling and launching a once failed technology.

This being the darker side the brighter side is "exposure of faulty pharma development and supply chain, complete exposure of regulatory bodies and institutions of their conflict of interests, vulnerability of the population to be manipulated by the industry and politicians for financial and power gains.

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Katherine's avatar

Disturbing. Thank you for reporting.

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mike's avatar

Is Marks' name pronounced; Frankensteen, or Fronkinstine?

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Hedley Rees's avatar

lovely poetry Thomas!

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