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by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Previously secret documents that surfaced at a Vioxx court case in April of this year
reveal pharmaceutical giant Merck maintained a "hit list" of doctors to be
"neutralized" for speaking out against Vioxx. Although this story was reported
on NaturalNews and other sites in April, Merck's involvement in the recent round of swine
flu vaccines raises new questions regarding Merck's behavior towards its critics (see
below).
As was reported in The Australian, documents that have surfaced in the Federal
Court in Melbourne expose the criminal intent of Merck staffers who admitted they intended
to "stop funding to institutions" and "interfere with academic
appointments." (These actions are highly illegal, by the way.)
According to on-the-record testimony in this Australian trial, one Merck employee said, in
referring to the doctors on the hit
list, "We may need to seek them out and destroy them where they live..."
That sounds a lot like a mob boss ordering a hit on a competing street thug, doesn't it?
At least eight clinical investigators were threatened or intimidated by Merck, the court
heard in testimony. This is congruent with the many reports of academic intimidation by
Merck that have already been published on NaturalNews.com and other news outlets. The
picture of Merck that emerges from these revelations is a company run by thugs who deal
with dissent by seeking to destroy the lives and careers of academics who dare to tell
the truth about Merck's dangerous drugs.
Merck is a company steeped in a culture of criminality. Among its numerous questionable
actions, Merck intentionally hid the liver-damaging effects of its cholesterol drug (http://www.naturalnews.com/024072_Z...),
it intentionally withheld the release of clinical trial data that showed the failures of
another cholesterol drug (http://www.naturalnews.com/023889_V...),
it has dumped vaccine waste and manufacturing chemicals into the water supply (http://www.naturalnews.com/023124_w...),
it set up offshore banking accounts to avoid billions of dollars in U.S. taxes (http://www.naturalnews.com/021645_M...),
and it was caught in a massive scheme of scientific fraud when it was revealed that the
company used in-house writers to secretly author "independent" studies that were
published in peer-reviewed medical journals (http://www.naturalnews.com/023052_M...).
And that's just the beginning of the real story on Merck. Read more astonishing news
stories about this company here: http://www.naturalnews.com/merck.html
There's little question that Merck operates from a criminal mentality, resorting to
tactics of deception and intimidation to accomplish what it could not achieve through
honest means: An increase in sales of its pharmaceutical products.
So what does this have to do with the swine flu vaccine? Simply
this: Almost no one in the industry of modern medicine has spoken out
against the swine flu
vaccines.
Are they being intimidated into silence by Merck and other vaccine makers?
Many who speak out against Merck products quickly find their credibility assaulted. If
they are in an academic institution, they quickly find their research support drying up,
and some end up blackballed by the pharmaceutical industry.
What Merck has made perfectly clear over the last several years is that speaking out
against Merck's products is academic suicide.
So how are honest scientists or doctors supposed to be able to raise concerns about the
swine flu vaccines being
manufactured by Merck and other companies? From watching the news, they already know that
publicly questioning the safety of this vaccine could cost them their careers.
Is this what modern "science" (if you can call it that) has come to? A band of
intimidated, frightened scientists too scared to raise their voices and question the
safety of pharmaceutical products? And if so, how can anyone call this "scientific medicine" in the first place?
It's more like gunpoint medicine, where you say what you're supposed to say because
the big corporate players are holding a (metaphorical) gun to your head.
In terms of the swine flu vaccine
itself, Big Pharma is already pumping the mainstream media full of
"preemptive defense" stories, claiming that whatever side effects occur from the
vaccines would have occurred anyway and the vaccines aren't to blame. Note that
this story is being fronted before the vaccine is even in widespread use! They are,
in essence, already predicting a wave of nasty side effects and trying to brainwash the
American public into dismissing such concerns as mere coincidence.
This is the astonishing, contradictory mindset of Big Pharma: When any harm comes to a
patient taking their drugs, that's just coincidence. But if any help comes their way and
they see a health improvement, that's
always due to the drugs alone, they claim. It is precisely this sort of selective,
unscientific thinking that has caused the utter destruction of credibility for the
pharmaceutical industry (and of those who push drugs and vaccines). Science has been
outright abandoned, replaced with slick marketing, financial arm-twisting and blatant
intimidation of anyone who steps outside the lines.
Don't you find it odd that virtually no one in the conventional medical community has raised questions about
the safety of the swine flu
vaccines? Isn't it odd that these vaccines, having been long-term tested on no one at all,
were suddenly approved by the FDA all on the same day and are now being advocated by
doctors everywhere without a single question about their safety?
Now you know why this Merck court case in Australia is relevant: Knowing the
way Merck operates, it's not unreasonable to suppose that doctors have been intimidated
into silence about the vaccine. Questioning this vaccine is equivalent to committing
professional suicide.
Vaccines are the core mythology of
modern medicine, you see. Questioning their safety or efficacy is considered sacrilegious
in the medical community. The entire mythology of western medicine is based on
the (false) belief that chemical intervention is preferable to self-healing, and vaccines
are the central fulcrum upon which that argument hinges. If vaccines fall, the whole
philosophical facade behind which western medicine now hides will be shattered at the same
time.
Protecting the profitability of western medicine necessitates the perpetuation of the
vaccine myth. And since that myth can't be maintained based on pure science alone (because
there's no real science backing it), it has to be supported through mob-style tactics of
intimidation and bribery. That's why
the bribery of physicians by drug
companies is now routine. It's the way the "science" of pharmaceutical
medicines is propagated through the machinery of our modern medical-industrial complex.
Money buys what real science can't support: The idea that the world medical system must be
based on chemical intervention (which just happens to financially benefit the drug
companies perpetuating these myths).
These revelations about Merck threaten the mythology of modern medicine upon which so
many billions of dollars of drug revenues are based. Even doctors don't want to talk much
about Merck. Why? Because they realize that as one of the largest pharmaceutical companies
in the world, the ethics of Merck
reflect on the ethics of western medicine as a whole.
Much of western medicine, after all, is based on pharmaceuticals. And believing
that pharmaceuticals make you healthy requires that you also believe the drug companies
are acting with integrity and looking out for the welfare of the people. But believing
that little piece of mythology requires that the drug companies are believed to be
benevolent, compassionate corporations that would never resort to unethical, dirty or
illegal tactics to accomplish their aims.
This whole tapestry of pharmaceutical fiction begins to quickly unravel when you begin to
see the truth about what really goes on inside Merck -- and that's what we've seen time
and time again with previously secret documents that emerged through court cases or other
means. The Merck culture is one that most reasonable people would describe as
"thuggish" or "criminal" in nature. It has virtually no resemblance to
the compassionate image the company tries to peddle through mainstream media advertising.
Besides, if Merck's products are really so good, why would it need to resort to intimidating
and threatening researchers in the first place? If its drugs were really so good and
so safe, wouldn't the science speak for itself?
Clearly, the intimidation of academics is only necessary when real science turns up
answers that you don't want to hear. So intimidation is invoked to replace the science
with fear.
And that's what our entire pharmaceutical system is based on today, folks: FEAR. The media
won't report the truth about pharmaceuticals because they are afraid to lose their
advertising dollars. Researchers won't report the real science about pharmaceuticals
because they are afraid to lose their careers. Doctors won't tell you the truth about
pharmaceuticals because they're afraid to lose their medical licenses. The entire system
is held together by fear and intimidation rather than honest science.
Belief systems in which questions are suppressed and "truths" are reinforced at
the end of a stick are called "dogmas." They cannot, by definition, be called
"scientific." Anyone believing that modern drugs or vaccines are based on
rigorous "science" does not understand the definition of the word.
Keep that in mind when you're deciding whether to get a vaccine shot. Remember that any
researchers who voiced safety concerns about those vaccines might have already been
"neutralized" or "discredited," to use the exact words of Merck's own employees.
And the "scientific" conclusions of today's pharmaceutical researchers can be no
more believed than the testimony of a U.S. soldier who is captured and tortured by
terrorists, then told to speak to the camera with a gun pointed at his head. http://www.naturalnews.com/027116_Merck_doctors_vaccines.html
Additional sources for this story include:
The Australian:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.a...
NaturalNews:
http://www.naturalnews.com/026420_M...
http://www.naturalnews.com/027116_Merck_doctors_vaccines.html
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