Pharmanon says
Pharmaceutical Industry – BIG PHARMA
Funds almost all medical research
Directly through drug trials
Indirectly through non-profits like American Heart Association
Indirectly through medical school, pharmacy school, dental school, veterinary school “chair” endowments and study sponsorship
Indirectly through NIH
Indirectly through CDC epidemiology studies
They decide what gets researched. What diseases are important, what endpoints (successful treatments) are important.
They don’t have to fudge statistics. Just only ask the questions they want answered in a certain way.
HPV vaccine was never shown to cause reproductive damage in human females – even though they knew it did so in animals….because the studies did NOT look for that. Purposefully.
They solve problems they already have an answer to. If no problem is identified, they create one.
High cholesterol was not identified as an issue – until they had a solution. Then they went about creating the “danger” in the public mind. They also created a whole new “food pyramid” which made the problem much worse.
Those new problems can then be treated with more drugs.
CDC relies on NIH research to identify health trends.
Relies on pharma research for vaccine advice and drug treatment options.
Funds professional organizations (AMA, APhA, APA, ADA)
Funds educational programs for professionals
Sponsors annual meetings
Conducts continuing education
Pharma “endowed chair” professors make up FDA advisory committees.
Pharma executives go to FDA, CDC, USDA management.
The FDA controls drugs – and FOOD.
Decides what drugs are approved for what conditions.
What “generally recognized as safe” ingredients are allowed.
What non-drug products are allowed (cosmetics).
What product labels must say.
What amount of contamination is allowed.
What new products like GMO potatoes are “safe” to eat.
What portion size should be.
USDA loosely connected to FDA decides on daily intake levels of nutrients (which are then repeated by FDA). What agricultural products are “safe” and/or toxic. What animal practices are acceptable…
All initially decided by PHARMA (animal and chemical products divisions) or their “sister” chemical companies.
Many who also make human food products and consumer products.
Their arrangement with Pharma or Ag companies is similar to FDA.
If Big pharma isn't getting the drug purchases they want - they just do a big ad campaign to 'educate' the public about a new disease with instructions to "Ask your doctor".
people then go and harass docs for prescription.
e.g. - until they had a new drug to treat it….very few people had "restless leg syndrome"