Sleaze? the WHO advisor on vaccines and the secret Big Pharma cash?

A Finnish member of the World Health Organization board, an advisor on vaccines, has received 6 million Euros for his research center from the vaccine manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline. Although WHO promises transparency, this conflict of interest is not available for the public to see at WHO’s homepage. Professor Juhani Eskola is the director of the Finnish research vaccine program and a new member of the WHO group ‘Strategic Advisory Group of Experts’ (SAGE). SAGE recommends which vaccines -- and how many -- member countries should purchase for the pandemic.
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Few Universities File Required Conflict Of Interest Reports

Few universities file required reports to the National Institutes of Health about financial conflicts held by their researchers, and even when such conflicts are reported, universities rarely require researchers to eliminate or reduce conflicts, The New York Times reports. The paper writes that a report showing that 90 percent of universities relied solely on researchers to decide whether the money they made in consulting and other relationships with drug and device makers was relevant to their government-financed research (here is the report). Moreover, half of universities don’t ask faculty members to disclose the amount of money or stock made from drug and device makers, and so the report concludes that the potential for extensive conflicts with their government-financed research is often known only to the researchers themselves.
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Government ministers appear to have disregarded Dept of Health advice with regard to issuing Tamiflu

The Telegraph reports that Government ministers disregarded Dept of Health advice with regard to issuing Tamiflu in huge numbers.

If this is true, and ministers knowingly risked the virus becoming resistant to Tamiflu by issuing it to all and sundry regardless of whether they actually had swine flu, then, apart from criminal recklessness with regard to the health of the UK population, it makes one wonder more and more about ministers being in the pockets of the drug industry, in particular in the pockets of GlaxoSmithKline, the UK drug company...

Only the drug companies have profited by the insanity of widespread provision of Tamiflu.

See also John Stone's article on the Age of Autism website

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Concerns over drug companies’ political donations

Consumer Watchdog (CS) has revealed that politicians in Washington have received multimillion dollar donations from drug and health insurance companies. According to CS, a nonpartisan and non-profit organization, the health industry contributed more than $5 million to the top 10 recipients in Congress during the last two election campaigns. The organization’s breakdown shows that those recipients received $2.2 million from health insurers and $3.3 million from drug manufacturers. Altogether, health insurers and drug manufacturers have contributed more than $24 million to the current members of the Senate and House of Representatives since 2005.
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