Why is Pfizer the darling of the GOP?

http://www.thememoryhole.org/mil/cbr/pfizer-cw.htm

Back when the US had an openly acknowledged, offensive chemical-biological-radiological weapons program (as opposed to the secret, illegal one it has now), many pharmaceutical and chemical corporations developed these weapons for the military. Among them was drug giant Pfizer, whose better-known products include Viagra, Zoloft, Rogaine, and Rolaids.

In this 1964 report, the company (then called Chas. Pfizer & Co., Inc.) discusses its first year of research under its contract to create incapacitating agents, which produce tremors, dysphoria, confusion, muscle fatigue, pain, vomiting, diarrhea, difficulty breathing or swallowing, hypersensitive skin, dangerously low blood pressure, and/or - most intriguingly - retrograde amnesia. Despite the absence of the word biological from the report's title, Pfizer also discusses its work with microbes in addition to chemicals.




Better living through chemistry as another Crusader Chemical Company put it....:sarcasm:

gov't requests.

She wouldn't have had to hire that crazy monk to cure her son. :)

scared...:eyes:

I had a Russian physician for a Biology and Chemistry instructor up at the college, exceptionally smart woman of whom I have great respect. (She can't practice here because she would have to go through all kinds of hoops and red tape, her husband is a physician in this area as well, American born and a pretty nice guy).

We got to talking about Russian history, and she was telling me just how distorted their history had become. Seems that Rasputin had a penchant for dealing w/the Grand Duke and patched him up several times after bouts w/hemophilia. No one knows what he did, but it worked...just about the only thing he did that was reccorded that was worthwhile...:)

and they could stuff him down a hole in the ice.

...with Pfizer's military contracts per se. Money is driving this effect--the quasi-legal bribery that is campaign contributions. As long as that continues, corporations will continue to write legislation. Both parties are beholden to Big Money.

to get much worse.

The whole idea of companies policing themselves is ridiculous. Time after time, companies have said they'd do this, and have fallen flat on their faces every time. If it costs them money, they just hide or ignore the parts they don't want to see, (or be seen by others).

For every multi-million dollar payout for some sleazy CEO, hundreds of things could be cleaned up, or improved.Besides driving companies into the red, these creeps have gone out of their way to ensure that water, air and food remain transmitters for disease and chemical pollution...:grr:

It all comes down to how much one can make, not to public service or responsibility.

caveat: There are some concientious corps out there, but for each one of them, hundreds just destroy ecological niches and create climates where death and disease reign.

side effects of recent popular medications:

"which produce tremors, dysphoria, confusion, muscle fatigue, pain, vomiting, diarrhea, difficulty breathing or swallowing, hypersensitive skin, dangerously low blood pressure, and/or - most intriguingly - retrograde amnesia."

Lipitor, Zyprexa, Lunesta, Vioxx, etc...

The game here is to use as much government money as they can get for their R & D...lock up the patents and charge through the nose for the next 14 or 28 years. While the mission is to develop drugs that are supposed to cure our ills or give us old guys stiffies, it's also to do so at a maximum profit...but it's a crap shoot. The downside is the billions big pharma throws back at both academia and the government. For every Viagra there are three or four other drugs that never made the grade and cost a Pfizer...money the feel they're entitled to recoup on their successful brands.

What's resulted in a tangled web of money that flows in and around the government, major universities, insurance and pharamcuticals and all profit. Socializing the system or eliminating the ways all these entities can profit is their cause celebe...it has been for decades. The Repugnicans long ago wedged these industries against the AMA and trial lawyers and, in return, have enabled big pharma and their affiliated industries to profit handsomely from a tightly controlled health-care system.

Better take another one Bob, I can still see loose skin and wrinkles.