Pharma's been stitching up paying customers for years

...and on it goes...

SORRY, I’M NOT ALLOWED TO TELL YOU THIS

This is an extract from Taming the Big Pharma Monster. The words in square brackets are added extras.

“We begin this chapter with a story I’m not allowed to tell you about as I was, and probably still am, bound by confidentiality [not any more!].

Please, therefore, keep what follows under your hat. It was the one and only time I have been asked to be an expert witness in a litigation; it happened to relate to a class action in the US.

I don’t wish to be perceived a braggart, but I must admit the pharmaceutical supply chain is something I know quite a bit about. A lawyer friend of mine in the UK [subsequently to become legal counsel for BioNTech] recommended me to his US lawyer counterparts, as someone competent to carry out the task.

What was the task, did you say?

It was to help prepare a defense to accusations that their client, a very large [Anglo-Swedish] pharmaceutical company, had colluded with an Indian company of the generic variety, to st…