SHOCKING!!! NOBEL PRIZE TAINTED BY DRUG COMPANY MONEY.

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http://www.newsmax. com/newsfront/ nobel_prize_ bribery/2008/ 12/12/161399. htmlSwedish Officials Investigating Nobel Prize BoardFriday, December 12, 2008 7:18 PM*By:* Celia FarberThe Nobel Prize Committee is facing investigation of bribery andcorruptionafter allegedly taking huge payments from a pharmaceuticalcompany thatdirectly benefits from the work of this year's Nobel Prize winner inmedicine.The astonishing scandal, being reported in the European trade press andconspicuously absent from Sweden's major daily newspapers, surfaced justdays before the internationally renowned awards were presented in Stockholmon

Wednesday.According to Swedish trade journal Dagens Medicin, Swedish state prosecutorsare checking into allegations that two Nobel-affiliated corporations --Nobel Media and Nobel Webb -- may have received "many millions" of dollarsfrom Swedish-American pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca.AstraZeneca, which holds patents on and collects royalties for both humanpapillomavirus (HPV) vaccines currently available -- Gardasil in the U.S.and Cerverix in Europe -- stands to benefit financially from the 2008 NobelPrize given to German Harald zur Hauser for his discovery of HPV and itslink to cervical cancer.Medical industry analyst Johan Unnerus, told the German newspaperHeidenheimer Zeitung on Friday that Astra is expected to earn between $30million and $50 million annually from its financial interest in the twomarket-leading vaccines..The trade journal reported Friday that the Nobel

Committee's financialconnections with AstraZeneca "may be criminal."Swedish state Prosecutor Christer van der Kwast told Dagens Medicin that hehad ordered a full criminal investigation, on the eve of Wednesday's lavishaward ceremonies, adding dryly: "It was not my intention to ruin the party."Swedish state radio Sveriges Radio reported more conflicts of interest thisweek, involving at least two Nobel Committee academics: Professor ofmetabolic research Bo Angelin, from the Karolinska Institute, is both on theboard of AstraZeneca, and a voting member of the Nobel Committee. Anotherhighly placed academic in the Nobel Committee, Bertil Fredholm, was revealedto have been a paid consultant for AstraZeneca through 2006."When these kinds of revelations come to light, of course it becomes ourhighest priority to investigate, " van der Kvast said. "The criminal chargesthat may become formalized are

bribery and corruption."Zhou Yi, an AstraZeneca spokeswoman in London tells Newsmax that while thepharmaceutical giant does collect money from the core patents on the HPVvaccines, the company held no sway in the Nobel selection."Our connection is to two Nobel subcommittees, Nobel Media and Nobel Webb,"Yi says, "Our sponsorship is strictly about helping get the word outglobally on the benefits of medical breakthroughs. These two committees arenot the groups responsible for choosing a Nobel Prize winner."Yi did confirm that AstraZeneca board member Bo Angelin also sits on thecommittee that votes on Nobel candidates, but said it was still unclearwhether he had actually voted for Hauser."I can tell you AstraZeneca, as a company, did not influence this award inany way," Yi says.Meanwhile, controversy also centered on the other half of the Nobel prize inmedicine, given to Dr. Luc

Montagnier of the Pasteur Institute, for hisclaims of the 1983 discovery of what was termed the "AIDS virus."International medical ethics watchdog group The Semmelweis Society hasissued *a press release *<http://www.semmelwe is.org/aids/ Science2Dec08. pdf>drawingattention to numerous breaches of scientific standards that undermine thenotion that an "AIDS virus" was ever discovered, or proven to be causative.(Editor© 2008 Newsmax. All rights reserved.

If they want money let them ask us directly. We are ready to give it to them.Why do they need to poke our children with these vaccines? Why did not they become robbers or politicians? They can earn money that way too. Why do they have to malign such a noble profession? - A non pediatrician doctor, mother of an autistic child, at Hyderabad, India.

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