BIG PHARMA CRIMINALITY NO LONGER A CONSPIRACY THEORY: BRIBERY, FRAUD, PRICE FIXING NOW A MATTER OF PUBLIC RECORD: (Nat­u­ral­News) Those of us who have long been describ­ing the phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal indus­try as a “crim­i­nal racket” over the last few years have been wholly vin­di­cated by recent news. Drug and vac­cine man­u­fac­turer Merck was caught red-handed by two of its…

GLAXOSMITHKLINE PLEADS GUILTY TO CRIMINAL FRAUD CHARGES, PAYS MASSIVE $3 BILLION IN FINES: (Nat­u­ral­News) U.K.-based phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal giant Glax­o­SmithK­line (GSK) has pleaded guilty to crim­i­nal charges in what even the main­stream media is call­ing the largest health­care fraud case in his­tory. And though the com­pany is hav­ing to fork over $3 bil­lion in col­lec­tive fines for its ille­gal activ­ity, no actual GSK employ­ees or exec­u­tives are being held per­son­ally respon­si­ble for their crimes.

THEY SOLD US ‘HAPPY PILLS’ — BUT ALL WE GOT WAS SUICIDE AND MISERY: (Peter Hitchens) A scan­dal can exist for ages before any­one notices. Here is one such. Ten years from now we will look back in shame and regret at the way the drug com­pa­nies bam­boo­zled us into swal­low­ing dan­ger­ous, use­less ‘anti­de­pres­sant’ pills. You’d be far bet­ter off tak­ing a brisk walk. The moment of truth must come soon, though most of Britain’s com­pla­cent, sheep-like media will be among the last to spot it.

PFIZER ‘CHERRY-PICKED’ CELEBREX DATA, MEMOS SAY: There are a large num­ber of rea­sons why you sim­ply can­not trust the vast major­ity of drugs on the mar­ket, and those rea­sons seem to increase on a reg­u­lar basis.