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Vivien C Buckley's avatar

How do you describe a money making enterprise that has no conscience about people lives when promoting their products? They don’t even have to worry about regulatory agencies who are supposed to be what their name implies. They’re all psychopaths with an abundance of power and influence over our lives. This is the stuff nightmares are made of.

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Maryanne Demasi, PhD's avatar

It’s totally criminal

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Max Dublin's avatar

And the worst kind of criminality, Maryanne because all of the criminal acts are premeditated and deliberate.

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Bush Goddess's avatar

I feel sick to the core reading this......... but it is no surprise.

How many other and similar cases are there where Big Pharma have fraudulently and knowingly falsified reports to bring a product to market knowing that deep harm to vulnerable people will result.

Thank you Maryanne for your diligence and persistence to bring such examples of outright fraud to the open.

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CMaryG's avatar
1dEdited

Thanks Maryanne for a clear explanation of how the club of

📌Big pharma

📌Professional journals

📌Academics

📌Regulators

provide dangerous misinfo about treatments never retracted

EVIDENTIARY LIES

until consumer advocates have to protect the public with costly legal enforcement.

How can GPs provide informed consent when prestige articles such as this aren’t retracted over a decade after GSK had been fined billions.

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CMaryG's avatar

The product info in Australia ARTG

PAROXETINE seems partly protective but nothing about dangers..

https://www.ebs.tga.gov.au/ebs/picmi/picmirepository.nsf/pdf?OpenAgent=&id=CP-2024-PI-01680-1&d=20251029172310101

“…Use in children and adolescents (< 18 years of age)

PAROXETINE-WGR is not indicated for children or adolescents under the age of 18 years.

Controlled clinical studies in children and adolescents with major depressive disorder failed to demonstrate efficacy, and do not support the use of paroxetine in the treatment of depression in this population (see section 4.4 SPECIAL WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS FOR USE).

The safety and efficacy of paroxetine in children aged < 7 years has not been studied….”

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Jillian Stirling's avatar

What a nasty net of vipers. They deserve everything that I hope is coming to them and more.

Criminal charges?

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Maryanne Demasi, PhD's avatar

It’s one thing to be naive about corruption, but these authors — physicians — knowingly and repeatedly violated their oath to do no harm. And for what? Money and prestige.

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David's avatar

Outrageous behaviour, yet again - or should that be still..? And yet there are so many people and medical professionals who are capable of reading articles like this, file it away under ‘too difficult to think about’, and continue to blindly believe what they are told for a whole swathe of other drugs and ‘scientific’ studies.. Let’s hope the legal challenge from that lawyer succeeds. More power to him.

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Sonja Armstrong, MSc's avatar

Well I hope the ripple effect turns into a tsunami 🌊

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Chris's avatar

Thanks again Maryanne. An utter evil is exposed - people in Pharma again who are only too happy to misrepresent things to profit, and knowing that these concoctions will only harm and deliver no benefit whatsoever.

And Journal owners who abet this horrific behaviour, and regulators who turn a blind eye and won't do anything.

I reserve my utter disgust though for our media who will not investigate and do their job. They are prostitutes, happy to write anything as long as the ad money keeps pouring through. The same types support the destructive Net Zero and the CO2 Climate hoax. These people are beyond evil, they are satanic and the enemy of mankind.

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John Rees's avatar

Once again Maryanne, this article provides yet another illustration that BigPharma has no moral compass, it has no shame and most importantly, it has no desire or intent to serve, with any degree of integrity, the populous that this industry was purportedly designed to service.

Sadly though its tendrils are so prolific and pervasive that this industry has literally throttled any form of decent and honourable criticism. It has become a modern day Hydra.

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Mike Williams's avatar

https://www.nps.org.au/medicine-finder/apo-paroxetine-tablets

If we become depressed reading about the fraud in medicine and in this case Paxil, at least we can take Paxil (disguised as Paroxetine) in Australia to not help with the depression and with an added bonus of side effects.

"..In adults with MMD (all ages), there was a statistically significant increase in the frequency of suicidal

behaviour in patients treated with paroxetine compared with placebo (11/3455 [0.32%] versus

1/1978[0.05%]; all the events were suicide attempts)…Controlled clinical studies in children and adolescents with major depressive disorder failed to demonstrate efficacy, and do not support the use of paroxetine in the treatment of depression in this population (see section 4.4 SPECIAL WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS FOR USE)…”

https://www.ebs.tga.gov.au/ebs/picmi/picmirepository.nsf/pdf?OpenAgent=&id=CP-2024-PI-01680-1&d=20251029172310101

https://www.nps.org.au/medicine-finder/apo-paroxetine-tablets

https://www.tga.gov.au/resources/artg/328840

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Jillian Stirling's avatar

I saw where Richard Dawkins was critical of Nature on the Daily Sceptic. Said that I stead of science you got politics.

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