Film on Multinational Drug Companies forces mainstream media to expose unethical practices.

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" The pharmaceutical industry is bracing itself for criticism when the film 'The

Constant Gardener' opens next month. Away from the Hollywood script is a true

story of how multinational drug companies took liberties with African lives with

devastating consequences. The crimes of the pharmaceutical industry...are well

documented. There's big, big money involved. Sir David Weatherall, Regius

Professor of Medicine at Oxford University [stated] that editors of medical

journals including The Lancet and The Journal of the American Medical

Association had come under pressure not to publish data or to change it. "

-- The Independent (one of the UK's leading newspapers), 9/26/05

 

October 5, 2005

Dear friends,

 

Multinational drug companies collectively form the most profitable industry on

the stock market. Dr. Marcia Angell, former editor in chief of the prestigious

New England Journal of Medicine, has stated, " The combined profits for the ten

drug companies in the Fortune 500 ($35.9 billion) were more than the profits for

all the other 490 businesses put together ($33.7 billion). " Click here to read

about the highly revealing book she's written on the pharmaceutical industry

cover-up. Wherever we find huge profits, unfortunately huge cover-ups are often

not far behind.

 

The below article exposes a lack of concern by multinational drug companies

about experimenting with the lives of African children, and how many who

question these practices are silenced. The children become like guinea pigs used

to qualify drugs worth many millions of dollars. Should the drugs eventually

pass muster, very few in Africa could ever afford to use them. You can help to

change this by sharing this information with your friends and colleagues so that

we might collectively pressure the media to better cover these important

stories. Together, we can and will make a difference. Thanks for caring.

 

With best wishes,

Fred Burks for the WantToKnow.info Team

Former language interpreter for Presidents Bush and Clinton

 

 

 

Complete " The Independant " news story available here;

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article315125.ece

 

The true story of how multinational drug companies took liberties with African

lives

 

The pharmaceutical industry is bracing itself for criticism when the film 'The

Constant Gardener' opens next month. But Jeremy Laurance reports that away from

the Hollywood script is a true story of how multinational drug companies took

liberties with African lives with devastating consequences.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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