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[longfellow95]

Unfortunately, it's all true, including their funding for patient advocacy groups.

There are a few who cannot be bought though, like Al Musella.

[CogDiss 1188X]

my favorite visual is taken from the following piece

“I sort of view Big Pharma, as an industry, as an octopus with many tentacles, and at the end of every tentacle is a wad of cash”

This brings to mind a widely reproduced editorial cartoon depicting the Standard Oil monopoly as an octopus:




It is even more relevant if one is familiar with the history of the Rockefeller clan, their Foundation and its seminal influence on the course of modern medicine. If not, well, that’s a long story best left for another place and time.

Here is another of Rockefeller’s Standard Oil depicted as a squid-like creature grabbing small competitors, state houses, banks, railroads and shipping lines, etc:



The squid brings to mind Matt Taibbi’s quote about Goldman Sachs during the financial crisis as a

“great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.”

Very picturesque. Of course, this is just typical MO for those guys. A few years later, we find they’re still at it:

a case was filed in Florida alleging that JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs and metals company Glencore Xstrata worked together to restrain aluminum supplies and drive up prices. The Florida complaint accused the banks and Glencore of racketeering, conspiring with an overseas metals exchange, hoarding aluminum in Detroit and violating antitrust laws.

The great vampire squid keeps on sucking

Uh oh, the C-word. I believe that triggers some kind of corollary to Godwin’s Law, so I am compelled to stop here. ;-)