Parkinson's volunteers for Amgen GDNF.
Merck's bizarre refusal of their most fundamental human responsibility
And then we start to look around at Pharma. New scandals daily.
From the Washington Post:
...."Pfizer violated international law by testing the drug, known as Trovan, on perilously ill children without their knowledge. Eleven children died during the 1996 clinical trial… other children developed brain damage and crippling arthritis…
Pfizer carried out the experiment on 200 children at a makeshift epidemic camp in the Nigerian town of Kano. The articles reported that Pfizer had no signed consent forms for the children and relied on a falsified ethics approval letter…

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...013003432.html

AMgen.
Sinemet shortage.
Testing our drugs on hundreds of Nigerian school children and then forging documents to cover up....

You see, Pharma, the problem is:

WE ARE NOT THAT KIND OF PEOPLE.
WE NEVER WANT TO BE THAT KIND OF PEOPLE.
We do not tolerate that kind of thing.
We know right and we know wrong.
Stop all research, rather than murder African children.
We are not that kind of people.
We do not accept that such things are done.
And the fact that Pharma cannot even grasp the concept is an indication of how close they are to hell itself, but instead of waiting decently to die before going to hell, they created hell here on earth.
Pharma's behaviour is way, way, way beyond what anybody can get away with. They are finished. Oh, they will lurch around for some years, but they are finished. Their credibility is gone, their research is deliberately falsified, but most of all, they cannot be trusted, and in health care, that's not what works.
We don't go to Third World countries and inject an unproven drug into 200 school children without the knowledge of their parents, and without approval from the health authorities. Eleven died, many of the remaining 200 suffered life-time physical and mental handicaps.
And the same company, Pfizer, was fined $2.3 billion for criminal activities in the U.S.A.
Now, if you were President of that company, or a shareholder, or in management, and there's the $2.3 billion fine, the largest in American history, and these dead African kids, and your products being forbidden because they increase the death rate... would you not feel bad, maybe apologize to the people whose lives you ruined, maybe fire a vice-president or two, maybe resign yourself...
if that was your company, would you not feel embarrassed? Pharma does not embarrass. They know the difference between right and wrong; they find that wrong is more profitable.
But we don't allow that. Pharma's behaviour is not acceptable, not legal; it is a stain on the history of our generation here on earth.
You don't treat people like that.
And so Pharma is finished. Elephants have a long memory.
And, in life, you get away with nothing. And we are not the kind of people who test our drugs on children without the parents knowing... these children came mostly from the same neighborhood in Kano, Nigeria. In some blocks of the city, almost all of the children were gone. 11 dead, officially (some parents in Kano say it was 50 dead) and 200 permanently damaged, mentally and physically, mostly all from the same apartment blocks. The play-ground was suddenly empty.
We are not that kind of people. We do not accept or tolerate these criminal acts. We protect children. We would rather die in dignity than have a cure that requires going into Africa and murdering school children.
We don't want to be that kind of people. That is not who we are, not at all.
Our elected officials are not so sure.