The Big Pharma Patent Scam, and Why it Needs to be Exposed—Critical Thinkers Step Forward...

It's costing millions of lives of innocent people

Whenever I write about the 40+ years of big pharma shenanigans, I try to stick with first principles. By first principles, I mean the common sense understanding that critical thinkers on the world they occupy live with, day in, day out.

As an example, take the farce of pharmaceutical patents. Some may remember the much-quoted words of Jonas Salk, when Edward R. Murrow asked Salk in 1955: “who owns the patent to the polio vaccine”.

‘Well, the people, I would say,’ Salk responded. ‘There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?’

[Note: I am not making a judgement on the utility of the polio ‘vaccine’ itself].

As you would expect, his words were rubbished at the time. In fact, whenever a question is raised about the value of pharmaceutical patents, we can expect a salvo of abuse from those vested in pharmaceutical patents. Whoever raises the question is put firmly back in their box.

If we look at this from first principles, however, it does seem somewhat ridiculous. The concept of a PATENT is …