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ScarlettHamiltonAustralia's avatar

Once trust is lost.........

The pharmaceutical companies went too far with COVID.

They will never be trusted again.

And, don't get me started on statins, anti-depressants and traditional cancer treatments..........

We have been lambs to the slaughter for too long.

- retired medical professional.

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KM's avatar

COVID was the tip of the iceburg. There is lots more besides. See for example "Children of the Cure" by David Healy at al.

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Vivien C Buckley's avatar

Another example of getting trashed by pharma, David Healy. They did such a good job on him that even doctors disregard him.

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Bryan's avatar

The interview RFK Jr did with Tucker showed a guy totally across his portfolio. Very impressive. No wonder they want to destroy him. (Compare and contrast any our Public Servants in Senate estimates - totally hopeless, not to mention our Ministers - looking at you Chris Bowen).

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KM's avatar

Yes, I agree, that's why they are so desperate to destroy him. You only need to listen to him for 30 seconds to realise his incredible intelligence and knowledge. I remember the first time I listened to him speak and I had this total "WTF" moment - I was like, THIS???, THIS is the guy they're saying is a raving lunatic?!

Now if only I could get some of my loved ones to listen to him for 30 seconds...

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CMaryG's avatar

The claims that he is antivax totally ignored him saying his own kids were vaccinated. But my question with Covid vax is

IS IT VACCINATION IF REQUIRED EVERY 4 MONTHS or failed treatment

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Maryanne Demasi, PhD's avatar

Glad Covid exposed that farce.

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CMaryG's avatar
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Yes and Kennedy even mentioned Maryanne’s distorted science issue - statins - about 18 minutes in

https://x.com/mdbreathe/status/1939758663427846165?s=46&t=yzt5Md7IJdL43uvNcxI5OA

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Keith Dudleston's avatar

The treatment of RFK (and yourself) reminds me of a prescient book published 20 years ago.

_**The Constant Gardener**_ is a 2001 novel by **David John Moore Cornwell** (John le Carré) which was inspired by the Kano trovafloxacin trial litigation which arose out of a clinical trial involving 200 children conducted by the Pfizer in 1996 in Kano Nigeria during an epidemic of meningococcal meningitis.

The survivors of the trial tried to bring a number of legal actions (in the USA) against Pfizer three of which were dismissed on procedural grounds. Pfizer subsequently settled the fourth case out of court with a $75 million settlement that was subject to a confidentiality clause.

Le Carré writes in the book's afterword: "by comparison with the reality, my story is as tame as a holiday postcard". Rachel Weisz, who took a lead role in the film adaption, won the Oscar for her performance as Tessa.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullahi_v._Pfizer,_Inc.#cite_note-Goldacre2012p117-6)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullahi_v._Pfizer,_Inc.

[le Carré, John](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_le_Carr%C3%A9 "John le Carré") (2005). [_The Constant Gardener_](https://archive.org/details/constantgardener00john). Pocket Star. Afterword. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)") [1-4165-0390-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-4165-0390-0 "Special:BookSources/1-4165-0390-0").

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KM's avatar

I've read that book and also clearly remember the afterward. That really stayed with me.

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Vivien C Buckley's avatar

I’ve got a few books on the go and one of them is The Constant Gardener. There’s a doctor in Toronto who is a Haematologist who wouldn’t pass a drug for safety reasons. Apotex had her fired from Sick Kids and a subsequent job. On X she mentioned that she’d had lunch with John Le Carre after her bad run in with pharma. He went into detail about the book with her.

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Maryanne Demasi, PhD's avatar

Yes, the wonderful physician scientist Nancy Olivieri. Another brave woman. 🙏

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Julian Gillespie's avatar

thank you Dr Demasi,

.. the war to maintain the ill-health and the ongoing sickness of entire societies and populations is real

a quiet valid series of images come to mind

the White Horse: Conquest .. Pharma cloaks itself in white: white boxes of questionable medications, white-coated pharmacists in white-walled pharmacies on every corner, white-coated doctors dispensing little white-labelled bottles and pills - with a smile, and perhaps a lollipop, if you're good and obedient

the Red Horse: War .. this is their ongoing war - on dissent, on informed choice, on bodily autonomy .. this story is yet another revealing chapter

the Black Horse: Famine .. where, while pharma promises and indeed provides us with an abundance of their products - their little pills and vials to inject their latest vaxxine - the same owners of these pharma corporations also own our food supplies, delivering ever increasing processed rubbish .. a soft strategy for starving humans of nutrition, delivering instead false foods which is another form of famine

until finally .. the Pale (Green) Horse: Death .. inevitable to all for sure .. but accelerated from all of the above

.. together, Big Pharma and its allied industries embody the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse -riding among us not as prophecy, but as policy

and they have been riding amongst us for decades

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Maryanne Demasi, PhD's avatar

Well said…. Thanks for this poetic dose of reality.

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KM's avatar

I'm so sorry this happened to you Maryanne Demasi.

Definitely agree that once you see it you can't unsee it. Multiple-vaccine injured family here (fortunately, extremely fortunately both recovered). One family member's recovery has been particularly remarkable - but can you tell anyone without being considered a quack that they were vaccine injured? Nope.

Rosemary Stanton on the list! My goodness! My mother and I have followed her for decades!!! And Paula Goodyer! - I used to enjoy her articles! .... perhaps the above is why she 'disappeared'.

Dr Oz as a voice of reason! lol. Would have spat out my tea if I'd been drinking it! I remember stumbling onto his daytime TV show some decades ago when home sick from work. And I remember thinking "Woah, he's really sold out to the quacks and snake oil salesman!". Some people just can't resist the almighty dollar.

Thanks for all your work Maryanne. Keep fighting the good fight!

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Maryanne Demasi, PhD's avatar

Thanks KM… I was an acolyte of Stanton too….i was all about the low fat diet at one point. Oh, how things have changed. 😩

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Vivien C Buckley's avatar

Dr. Oz turned my stomach. He used trust to manipulate people. I couldn’t stomach him but many of my friends loved him. I was shocked that he was chosen in Kennedy’s group of esteemed men.

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Dr Ah Kahn Syed's avatar

They came for you. They came for me. They came for William McBride, Andrew Wakefield, Sam White, Paul Oosterhuis, David Cartland, Mary Talley Bowden.

But they overreached. When they came for you we weren't prepared.

Now we are. Cartel conduct is a felony crime.

Criminal investigations will come.

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Vivien C Buckley's avatar

Unless the politicians are on the take, which many are which concerns me.

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Rob's avatar

I loved your work on Catalyst and was sad to see the ABC close it down.

I still share the episodes eg fit in 6min with clients.

Maybe we need to take names and organise some disruptive action of our own.

Keep up the good work

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Critical Thinker's avatar

Yup, see the job the Saturday Night Live crew did on their JFK Jr impersonation skit...when you have to resort to having a bunch of low grade comics make up a marionette and have it screwing chickens on national TV, you know the big money is pissed he fired all their golden geese. In other news, natural Immunity reigns supreme and Canadian courts totally infected with kangaroo-itice.

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Gareth Thomas's avatar

This is the very reason I'm happy to be a paid subscriber Maryanne.

Your work and strength is inspirational.

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Maryanne Demasi, PhD's avatar

Thank you so much Gareth 🙌

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Michelle Grace Hunder's avatar

Agree with this comment 100%!!

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Maryanne Demasi, PhD's avatar

Appreciate you, thanks Michelle 🙏

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Max Dublin's avatar

Thanks for sharing your story Maryanne. I was aware of parts of it before but not of all of the details. The good news is that you’re still standing and doing magnificent work! Many of us have had serious setbacks in our lives and the most important thing is to brush ourselves off and keep going. Good for JFK jr for taking notice of what you’re doing. I don’t think that all of the forces arrayed against him will succeed in taking him down. They’ve been at it for some time now even before he announced his bid for the Democrat presidential nomination and I think that the adversity has only made him stronger. Shame on his family for attacking him. He’s the best hope for redeeming the tattered family legacy and they’ve attacked him for selfish stupid reasons. Such is the world!

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Maryanne Demasi, PhD's avatar

Appreciate you Max

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JB watching TV's avatar

Those bumholes ! 🤨

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CMaryG's avatar
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IS THIS ANTITRUST OR INDUSTRY LOBBY?

I note in the Brownstone article expose

Quote:

“It seems that the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), whose membership includes Pfizer, Merck, Novavax, Vaxcyte, and hundreds of biotech firms that profit from regulatory insulation, has a mole. This article critiques the documented lobbying behavior of the trade group BIO, not the internal operations or clinical data of its member corporations”

One wonders why Novavax that many community members and health professionals are supporting as safe v mRNA - is partner in this conspiracy. Is this what cleverly defines BIO an industry lobby group rather than an antitrust conspiracy to stop competitors to mRNA

Of course we have a similar lobby group in Australia inhabited by Australianised Big Pharma with ABN like Pfizer Australia Pty Ltd but MEDICINES AUSTRALIA donating $240k to Politicians is too expensive for genuine Australian biotech pharmaceuticals to join.

Maryanne is onto something too big…

Re type 2 diabetes I remember seeing that cutting diet calories to 500 a day for many would cure type 2 but it’s hard to include any junk food in 500cals.

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Maryanne Demasi, PhD's avatar

Type 2 diabetes is a condition in which the body can no longer metabolise carbohydrates effectively. By limiting their intake of carbs, people can avoid the large fluctuations in blood glucose that drive disease progression. Naturally, the drug industry prefers that people manage their blood sugar with medication instead. 😳 Meanwhile, severe calorie restriction—as opposed to intermittent fasting—can leave people constantly hungry, making it harder to sustain and more likely to lead to bingeing on junk food.

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CMaryG's avatar

So healthy = limiting calories but not too much, exercise and minimal medication. Sugars not needed only natural sugars in fruits - no need to buy ready mades

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Maryanne Demasi, PhD's avatar

I think the quality of the calories is most important… if most come from nutritionally dense foods like fish, red meat, eggs, dairy, then you cannot go wrong… if you have type2, then any sort of carbohydrate will be difficult to manage once ingested - even if it comes from fruit or potatoes - so I’d limit them too - stick to leafy greens veggies.

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Vivien C Buckley's avatar

Maryanne, I am so sorry you were put through that horrendous take down by the powerful. It must have been so stressful and frustrating. You are right, they succeeded in your demise, which is exactly the plan. People get confused with who is right and who is wrong. The big entities know this. I hate it all. RFK Jr is not liked by many who think he’s looney. I was afraid of such a tactic as it’s ripe for the picking. Hopefully he’s aware of the leaked document which will enable him to work on a counterattack, and of course it will turn into another thing where you’re trying to make people aware of what is going on but they don’t believe you. It is all so abysmal.

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Maryanne Demasi, PhD's avatar

The key is to survive and rebuild. Am working on the latter now. 🙏

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Vivien C Buckley's avatar

Your career demise. Not you.

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John Rees's avatar

Although it will take quite sometime to convince the majority of the public of the evil that drives BigPharma, (BPh) it is most probably the immense arrogance of BPh, that will actually help to bring it to its knees.

It has believed for decades that it is untouchable and that no-one can bring it down, or that anyone has the right to criticise it. Thus, it believes that as long as it uses its vast wealth to defame, humiliate and belittle its critics, the public will continue to trust it.

Sure the weak and insipid Democrats like Warren and her like, will happily take millions of dollars from BPh to attempt to bring down RFK Jr. But all he has to do, is to utilise these leaks to fire them back at BPh. Because, when someone is in the right, one has no need to look to bring down someone who is criticising them, because the evidence that they are correct should already be in the public domain. So in fact, all that BPh are doing is informing the public that for decades they have been lying to them and that they never should have been trusted at all, and from their current actions, should never be trusted ever again.

In future when any interviewer engages in a discourse with anyone about any controversial topic, the first question should be: "Excuse me, first let me ask you, who are you being sponsored by?"

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Margaret Allison's avatar

That’s good John Rees! Thanks Maryanne! I stand amazed at what Big Pharma is doing! I lived through the HIV “crisis”! All we nurses were so careful to not “stick” ourselves with a needle! When one is on the inside looking out, we can become blind to what is really happening! We believed they (Pharma) were doing everything for the good of the patients. What a mess this USA is in! Friday we are 249 years old! Our founding fathers would literally “turn over in their graves”! We must “fight, fight, fight”!

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John Rees's avatar

Thank you for your comment Margaret, which supports my understanding that sadly one of the ways in which BPh maintains its 'status' and 'credibility' is based on how it indoctrinates those who work within the medical professions. Most of whom, in the vast majority of cases have come straight from school and thus have minds that are perfectly malleable. It is this malleability and the natural naivety and innocence of such minds that enables BPh to indoctrinate those that it sees as its minions, and hence perpetuate their lies and their fallacies.

For those of us who had fulfilling careers before moving into the medical world, it is much easier to see the malfeasance of BPh.

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Margaret Allison's avatar

True John Rees!!!

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Margaret Allison's avatar

I understand. I graduated in 1968 from a really good hospital nursing school. I believe it was better back then because they were Florence Nightingale followers!

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John Rees's avatar

Well I am sure that was the case Margaret, as with that principle, it was all about caring for the patient and putting the needs of the patient first. That principle has long gone I am afraid. It is all about the financial return and profit of Big Pharmaceutical companies now, and the patient is an insignificant bystander, sadly.

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Markker's avatar

Celia Farber, in her Truth Barrier substack, has brought back to the fore how dissenters of The Science™ relating to HIV reality being the cause of AIDS, and toxic drugs being used which actually caused AIDS, were all decimated by the powers that be. Shocking stuff, especially for everyone, and I mean hetro too, at that time. The fear porn in the media was the pilot for the covid event. I'm thankful I stumbled on the real AIDS business story, and learned about other things, low fats/more sugar, for example.

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Froggie's avatar

You are well justified in drawing this analogy Maryanne. I well remember the outrageous 'hit job' they did on you and the ABC's typical weak-knee'd response (reminds me of the parallel vis a viz Ms Latouffe recently, albeit on a different topic). She at least won in court, could Bobby?

He is likely to fall victim if he cannot preserve the apparently strong relationship he has with Trump and given that man's capricious nature, such preservation must be like running into the brambles to secure the last of the season's blackberries.

But then their narrative-generation continues to flail and stumble, so there's hope yet.

Perhaps RFK has some of the Epstein files on hand to offer The Donald, but then such documentation didn't avail Musk any favourable aromas, did they?

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