Nov. 25, 2025 - Epoch Times
02:31
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| First thing on my list is, of course, the inordinate power of the pharmaceutical companies, the big pharma. | |
| And I had no idea just how powerful they were over academia, over agencies. | |
| Some people say it's 40% of FDA, other people say it's 75% of their budget is paid for by big pharma. | |
| I didn't know that NIH shared patents with big pharma. | |
| I didn't realize how dependent mainstream media is on pharmaceutical advertising. | |
| I hadn't realized how many NGOs are in the receipt of pharmaceutical money, how many conflicted scientists there were out there that are not really objective. | |
| The whole system is so messed up. | |
| How many governments in the world that big pharma actually seems to control? | |
| I mean, in the end, you know, there are a lot of theories about why 194 countries at the same time tried a big experiment in lockdowns, right? | |
| I mean, and we could talk about this all day, think about nothing else. | |
| Why did this happen to us? | |
| But at least part of it was came down to the power of the pharmaceutical companies and their conviction that they can solve the problem for us if we just stay locked down long enough and give them time to create the great inoculation that was going to save us. | |
| And 194 governments in the world believe this. | |
| That is some awesome power. | |
| I would like to see some kind of reforms. | |
| I think some of these steps in this direction are taken to make the pharmaceutical industry a normal industry, you know, where they, like all other products, have liability for the damages that are being caused, not earning these liability waivers that have given them all the wrong incentives. | |
| There's got to be something done about the media capture by the pharmaceutical companies, which gets into another area. | |
| Right, which is agency capture, right? | |
| I mean, this is the strangest thing that I think maybe I've discovered over the last five years is I feel like I've spent my entire career trying to understand this thing we call government, right? | |
| And I've always thought of it as an exogenous thing, like here's society and here's government. | |
| And the one piece of the puzzle I did not understand is the extent to which industry is so interwoven with the operations of government. |
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