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#2173 - Jimmy Dore

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CHAPTER

The Influence of Pharma on Media Integrity

This chapter explores the risks and controversies linked to pharmaceutical treatments, focusing on the manipulation of study results for corporate gain. It also examines how financial ties between pharmaceutical companies and media organizations can compromise journalistic integrity and public health reporting.

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The literal explanation was it is impossible to make them entirely safe.
Speaker 1
So what you're saying is they're not entirely safe. You're going to injure some people.
Speaker 2
Almost all medications. Of course. If you give them to enough people, you're going gonna have side effects and then when you have a new one and Then when you understand how they're allowed to do studies and how they're allowed to throw out all the studies that show It does harm or it doesn't work or it's not effective and then you fucking finagle the numbers in a way that you can push it I think we're gonna see a real improvement here like okay run with it go and then the money starts rolling in but of course and that's
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how they captured the news, because Bill Clinton let them in 1997. I think they passed a law that let Big Pharma. Now, most of the funding for news comes from Big Pharma. Brought to you by Pfizer. By Pfizer, right? And so, of course, they get to... So they're not... So what I say is that when you see Boeing advertising on Meet the Press or Pfizer advertising on CNN, they're not funding the news organization's investigation. They're funding their non-investigation, right? They're like, but this is money so you don't fucking investigate us. That's exactly. And the people who do, like my friend Anita Krishna in Canada, she worked for a, I forget the name of the global news or some big news network in Canada. And so she started to ask just regular questions that she and she she got fired and she she she videotaped her session where they fire her. You know, like they hey, why are you? She's like, isn't that what we're supposed to be doing? We're a news organization. Aren't we supposed to be asking the questions why there's all these miscarriages that are happening at the house? Aren't we supposed to be asking about the explosion of cancer? Aren't we supposed to be asking these questions? Isn't that what we do as a news organization? And she got fired for that, of course. Yeah. And so here's the latest thing. But don't you think that this craziness is good for us? Oh, yeah. Well, I wouldn't have a show if CNN and MSNBC...

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