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Government Corruption
Conflicts of Interest: Pfizer's Secret Collusion With the NIH
2023-03-23
[Epoch Times - Health Viewpoint]

Story at-a-Glance
  • Under the Bayh-Dole Act, government scientists can collect royalties from drug companies for discoveries they make while working on the public’s dime.

  • Taxpayers fund government research, while Big Pharma, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and NIH scientists keep all the profits.

  • As a patent holder who profits from royalties, the NIH has a significant stake in regulations that impact patents and vaccine mandates, and may use its influence to benefit itself rather than the public.

  • The NIH distributes $32 billion of taxpayer funds as research grants each year. As the largest federal grant-maker, the NIH has a monopoly on what research gets done and what doesn’t.

  • Scientists vying for grants also recognize that in order to get funding, they have to play by the rules, and that means doing work that supports establishment narratives on public health policy.

I discovered one good outcome of this approach several years ago. Harvoni cured Hep C with no side effects. The best guess is I got it from a dirty dental tool. The only downside to Harvoni was it was over $100k for 90 days of treatment. Fortunately, I had company health insurance at the time.
Posted by:Bobby

#5  Yes.
Posted by: trailing wife   2023-03-23 23:12  

#4  Rachel’s book doomed many African people.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-03-23 22:29  

#3   My dad invented the insulated carafe but never made a cent off it.

My father discovered interferon, but because he was required to retire before he could execute the experimental series to prove efficacy, a decade later two teams of scientists got the Nobel Prize, the magazine covers, and the saved lives. Decades earlier, the publication of Rachel Carson’s lies-filled Silent Spring put paid to my father’s plans for riches unlimited while bettering the world with his improved version of DDT. These things happen.
Posted by: trailing wife   2023-03-23 22:14  

#2  Based on the financial structure and incentives, the NIH will need to be bulldozed just like most every corrupted edifice in the Federal government. Fauci abused the system and killed a lot of people, but some other weasel would have done similar or worse work if he or she had clawed their way to the top of that warped institution.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-03-23 19:14  

#1  NIH has done allot of good over the years but people like Fauci have turned it into a cash cow. It is the approved science research I have a problem with. When you invent something the monies go to the company not to inventor. My dad invented the insulated carafe but never made a cent off it.
Posted by: Dale   2023-03-23 16:52  

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