"“Experiments involving risky drugs proceed with little independent oversight. Impoverished, poorly educated patients are sometimes tested without understanding that they are guinea pigs. And pledges of quality medical care sometimes prove fatally hollow,” The Washington Post found.
When the Nigerian Government conducted its own investigation, it found Pfizer at fault for the children’s deaths and guilty of conducting human trials of an experimental antibiotic on 200 children without informed consent. Eleven children died, and many were disabled following the trials.
Court documents filed by the families of those who died said that “most tragically, Pfizer purposely … low-dosed the control drug” and did not tell families that alternative, safe and free approved treatment was available at the same hospital. Later, classified US State Department cables made public in 2010 indicated that Pfizer had hired investigators to dig up dirt on Nigeria’s former attorney general to get leverage for one of the remaining cases. Pfizer had to apologise for falsely claiming that the group Doctors Without Borders was also dispensing Trovan during the Nigerian meningitis epidemic.
This is not a company that can claim to have human health and well-being as its primary objective. It is a serial offender.
The business model of the drug industry is to get people to take as many drugs as possible for as long as possible. Now, the third most common cause of death globally, after heart attacks and cancer, is prescribed medications. They have caused the biggest opioid crisis in human history. They are the biggest drug cartel in the world, operating under full protection from legal sanctions.""
