He's a Sackler
saint anthony richard sackler fauci, shitweasel
Purdue Pharma sold OxyContin on a series of claims about the science, starting with the foundational claim that a supposedly major study had proved that opioid addiction in patients treated for pain in medical settings is vanishingly rare. For a few calculatedly dishonest years, the drug was completely and almost miraculously effective, had no side effects to speak of, and was essentially risk-free. Purdue incentivized participation: doctors got paid to promote OxyContin, and they got paid to aggressively prescribe it to their patients. As the dangerousness of the drug became more and more obvious, Purdue and its owners, the Sackler family, offered limited concessions of the mistakes were made variety, admitting but denying, and then admitting a little more but still denying, and then admitting just as much as they absolutely had to but protecting any deniable ground they could plausibly hold.
So. Can you think of another pharmaceutical product that produced enormous profits, that was promoted by doctors who got paid to push it, and that started with sweeping claims about flawless efficacy and zero risk before the much different reality became unavoidably apparent? Can you think of another instance in which sweeping claims about the science turned out to be exaggerated or invented?
What’s also becoming clear is that Anthony Fauci’s agency, the National Institutes of Health, made out like Sacklers, with royalty payments from pharmaceutical companies going directly to scientists on the government payroll — though the NIH declines to make specific payments to specific scientists public, so we only have general information about how much cash flowed into the building.
So Anthony Fauci’s modified limited hangout before a congressional committee, today, in which the Covid-19 vaccines were actually extremely effective at first, but only very briefly, and then it turned out to his very great surprise that the effectiveness waned….
He’s doing the Sackler dance. He’s giving up a little more ground each time he talks, tactically — “ we did not know that in the beginning” — but refusing to just fully give up the lucrative product and admit that it was dangerous and a failure. It’s so familiar you can almost speak the lines with him as he recites.
We made a lot of money from this product that we promoted dishonestly.
Now people are figuring out that it’s dangerous.
So we have to concede some ground to placate them, but not so much that we lose the money.
And the media is there to help.
What’s most remarkable in all of this is that it will work again. Ohh, this pharmaceutical product is just wonderful, everyone needs to take it, trust us, doctors say that it’s very good….
As I’ve been saying for years, it’s all the same fraud, over and over again.
But whatever you do, don’t stop trusting the experts.
It’s just another show trial! Nothing will happen to Fauci or any other co-conspirators. This is a gigantic waste of time and money, just like we knew it would be.
This is a statistical problem. The intelligence of the population is a bell curve. By definition, half the population is below average. The word "expert" doesn't really mean anything. What has a "medical expert" done to justify their being called an expert? Attend medical school? Done research? We all know people who have gotten promoted to positions far beyond their skills (the Peter Principle). The truth is, when you sample enough "experts" out of the general population, you get a LOT of mediocrity. While credentialing can help weed out the really bad folks (way to the left on the bell curve), it cannot weed out the middle of the bell curve, because we need all those mediocre people to fill the slots. What's the takeaway? Be skeptical of the "experts." There's a good chance you're just as smart as they are. Just because somebody wears a white lab coat doesn't mean they aren't very, very average.