Michaelangelica Posted September 8, 2009 Author Report Posted September 8, 2009 Quoted to-night as being an example of out-of-control science /genetic engineering on the ABC's Book ShowAmazing how powerful that image was, tapping into our Frankenstein fears. 'Ear-ie' Biotech Scare "Who plays God in the 21st century?" captioned an October 11, 1999 full-page ad in the New York Times attacking genetic engineering. Placed by a coalition including Greenpeace and the Sierra Club, the ad featured a photo of a shaved laboratory mouse with what looks like a human ear attached to its back. The caption stated, "This is an actual photo of a genetically engineered mouse with a human ear on its back." As it turned out, it wasn't a real ear and it had nothing to do with genetic engineering. A template in the shape of a human ear was seeded with human cartilage cells and surgically implanted on the back of a mouse. The cartilage cells grew into the ear-like structure. The technology’s purpose is to help children who are either born without ears or who lose their ears through injury. Read more…Top 10 Junk Science Scams - HUMAN EVENTSMore so called scams/frauds at site Quote
Michaelangelica Posted October 21, 2009 Author Report Posted October 21, 2009 Pfizer pleads guilty to felony crime in fraudulent marketing of Bextra, pays billions in fines. . . .You can read the DOJ documents describing the settlement here: http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2009/Se... Essentially, Pfizer asked the FDA to approve Bextra for a variety of diseases and conditions, and when the FDA refused those approvals, Pfizer decided to go ahead and market the drugs for those diseases and conditions anyway (off-label marketing). But that's not all. In the DOJ statement, you'll read the following: Pfizer has agreed to pay $1 billion to resolve allegations under the civil False Claims Act that the company illegally promoted four drugs -- Bextra; Geodon, an anti-psychotic drug; Zyvox, an antibiotic; and Lyrica, an anti-epileptic drug -- and caused false claims to be submitted to government health care programs for uses that were not medically accepted indications and therefore not covered by those programs. The civil settlement also resolves allegations that Pfizer paid kickbacks to health care providers to induce them to prescribe these, as well as other, drugs. The federal share of the civil settlement is $668,514,830 and the state Medicaid share of the civil settlement is $331,485,170. This is the largest civil fraud settlement in history against a pharmaceutical company. False claims, kickbacks, felony crimes and civil fraud... it Pfizer pleads guilty to felony crime in fraudulent marketing of Bextra, pays billions in fines by Mike Adams the Health Ranger Quote
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