11/23/2024
Only 65 pages in and both Sadie and I agree that Follow the Science by investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson is a MUST READ for everyone, especially those who want to be their own best advocates for their health.
Example after example of how the “science” and the “experts” and our agencies have been compromised by corporate corruption and self interest.
An excerpt of some of the info you’ll read about for example.
“I would learn years later that the CBS advertising division contacted the CBS Evening News executive producer on behalf of AstraZeneca to warn about my coverage exposing the dangers of Crestor and other statin drugs that had aired on the news. The executive producer told me that ‘one of the [CBS] sales bosses threatened’ him ‘pretty harshly’ and left him a ‘loud, angry voicemail saying [Sharyl’s] stories could really harm [CBS’s ad] business’. Back then, as now, CBS and the other news networks received tens of millions of dollars a year in ad money from the pharmaceutical industry. A news division’s editorial decisions should be strictly firewalled from the corporate advertising department. In reality, they’re not.”
“Lesson Learned: ‘Independent’ doctors and researchers who defend or promote drugs are often working for the drugmaker without affirmatively disclosing their financial ties. Pharmaceutical companies spend unimaginable fortunes on public relations efforts to spin and influence news reporters, their bosses, and corporate news headquarters. News editors may block stories that are contrary to certain interests.”
