Wednesday, 3 September , 2025

Big Pharma

They Pledged to Donate Rights to Their COVID Vaccine, Then Sold...

By Jay Hancock August 25, 2020 In a business driven by profit, vaccines have a problem. They’re not very profitable — at least not...

John Le Carre describes drug industry’s ‘crimes of unbridled capitalism’ in...

May 2001 The pharmaceutical industry offers “the most eloquent example” of “crimes of unbridled capitalism,” and was thus the perfect subject for a novel, John...

COVID-19 vaccine as a global public good and the potential of...

The Need for Recovering the Subjugated Knowledge of Traditional Chinese Medicine By LAU Kin Chi, SIT Tsui (Jade) From: Development (2020). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41301-020-00276-8 Abstract This short article will explore...

Trump administration threatened to oust the head of the FDA if...

By Jake Lahut and Andrew Dunn Dec. 11, 2020 The US Food and Drug Administration reportedly moved up the announcement of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine authorization after...

Successful Not-for-Profit Oxford COVID Vaccine Threatens Big Pharma Profit Logic

“The Oxford vaccine is… striking, since the point was to pay researchers, but not to rely on patent monopolies to generate large profits.” –...

Fight the pandemic profiteers – Nationalise Big Pharma!

By Dora Dimitrova and Joe Attard 20 Nov 2020 Millions of people around the world are jubilant that a COVID-19 vaccine might soon be...

The Roots of American Misery

By James K. Galbraith Sep 18, 2020 Among recent inquiries into the sources of American discontent, one finds many simplistic diagnoses based on dubious cliches, but...

Western pharma is ‘all about profit’: Philippines’ Duterte vows to solely...

15 Sep, 2020 The Philippines’ president has promised to “kick the a**” of Western pharma giants if they try to negotiate supplying Covid-19 vaccines to...

The Life-Saving COVID-19 Drugs You’ve Never Heard Of (and Why)

Only the ridiculously profitable drugs are worth hyping. Only the money makers deserve 80,000 commercials telling every consumer to irrationally demand them. The cheap...

A pandemic of bad science

By Walter Scheirer Jul 20, 2020 ABSTRACT What can epidemiological models tell us about our potential exposure to COVID-19? What progress is being made with regard to...