Nieuw boek onthult koppeling overheid en Big Pharma
Hoewel Thatcher de farmaceuten binnenbracht bij de politiek, was het Blair die van de industrie een vaste partner maakte. Het unieke Engelse gezondheidssysteem, de NHS, werd stukje bij beetje verkocht aan de farmaceutische industrie, die daarin een prachtig afzetgebied vond voor haar producten.
In een nieuw, gratis te downloaden boek, beschrijft Martin J. Walker, gesteund door diverse juristen en andere professionals, hoe de maatschappij én de politiek door onze eigen politici ondergeschikt gemaakt worden aan grote kapitaalkrachtige belangen.
The most serious consequence of letting corporate interests look after science, medicine and health is that the independence of science and any possible independence of health care have been obliterated. Corporate lobby groups, in bed with Big Pharma, insurance companies and New Labour, now press for the least expensive and the most profitable solutions to health care. They attack alternative medicine, and campaign for animal testing and vivisection. They have politicised science and now control both its methodology and the results of its research. Using spin, lies and propaganda they harass and isolate anyone who comes to conclusions critical of new technology or pharmascience. They preach zero risk and claim that new technologies can cause no harm.
This book examines the contemporary corporate politics of science in two areas, that of MMR (mumps, measles and rubella) vaccination and the illness ME (myalgic encephalomyelitis). It shows how those who have fought for independent science have been bullied, attacked and discredited, using political strategies have nothing to do with science and everything to do with power and profit.
Martin J Walker was born in 1947 and trained as a graphic designer. He has written books and articles while being an activist, political poster artist, investigator and research worker.
