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“With most of the mainstream news media swept up in apocalyptic religion or fully bought into the censorship industrial complex, independent journalists like Sharyl Attkisson become more essential every day. She tackles topics in-depth, without fear of what political operatives, social media zealots, or compromised ‘experts’ will say. The whole country benefits from her provocative but well-researched reports on what Big Pharma has been up to for the last few decades.”
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“Using real-world examples, Sharyl Attkisson reveals the shocking influence of the government-pharmaceutical complex when it comes to media, the Internet, journalism, politicians, medical journals, studies, and the doctors we rely on for advice. This book is a must-read.”
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“During the Covid pandemic, very few reporters did the hard work of understanding the harms of the lockdowns, the real epidemiology of the virus, the death rate from Covid, and other vital matters. In this sea of deceptive, mediocre reporting, Sharyl Attkisson stood out with the creativity, accuracy, and boldness of her writing. Highly recommended!”
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FOLLOW THE SCIENCE
How Big Pharma Misleads, Obscures, and Prevails
By Sharyl Attkisson
From Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist and New York Times bestselling author Sharyl Attkisson, comes a stunning exposé of the corruption that has ruled the pharmaceutical industry and news media for decades in FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: How Big Pharma Misleads, Obscures, and Prevails (Harper; on sale 9/3).
Through blatant lies, deep cover-ups, and high-level collusion with government and media, Big Pharma has continuously put profits over people with dangerous results. Now, with her signature investigative rigor and uncompromising commitment to the facts, Sharyl Attkisson takes readers on an eye-opening journey through the dark underbelly of the pharmaceutical industry.
FOLLOW THE SCIENCE recounts, in exacting detail, how far the pharmaceutical industry and its supporters in medicine, media, and government will go to protect their profits. Attkisson provides shocking examples that reveal the disturbing callousness our government, public health officials, and top researchers are capable of when it comes to the most vulnerable among us. And she explains, in a graphic sense, how some of the most trusted within our society are willing to commit life-threatening ethics violations. When caught, they circle the wagons and marshal forces to defend their bad acts, and take steps to cruelly silence the injured and smear those who would expose them.
In FOLLOW THE SCIENCE, Attkisson uncovers:
- The federally-funded Baby Oxygen study was conducted by some of America’s most prestigious medical institutions, but resulted in the deaths of some of the babies in the study. Parents had been misled about the true nature and dangers.
- Some of the newest Alzheimer’s drug have been approved under the most disputed process in the history of the FDA, and against the advice of the FDA’s own medical advisers. Sharyl also exclusively digs into what’s behind a questionable study funded with your tax dollars that aimed to try to prove the Covid vaccines don’t cause neurological issues.
- Behind the scenes coordination between pharmaceutical companies, media, government, and the medical establishment
- 15 examples specific to Sharyl’s vaccine coverage that explain how she came to understand nearly everything she and other Americans had been led to believe about vaccinations was scientifically proven false.
- Sharyl exposes what she calls “The Biggest Coverup”: the shocking story of what really happened behind the scenes in the landmark court proceeding to determine if the federal courts would accept links between vaccine and autism (including a conversation between she and actor Robert DeNiro, who believe his child’s autism was caused by vaccines).
Sharyl also exclusively exposes and documents how a potentially dangerous mercury preservative, thimerosal, remained in many vaccinations years after the media and medical establishment claimed it had been removed.
- The hidden financial ties between the vaccine industry and some of the nation’s most ardent vaccine promoters, like the American Academy of Pediatrics, including outrageous examples of vaccine defenders fabricating accusations against her and those who question the dogma.
- Ten key highlights among a voluminous number of misrepresentations made to the public by once-trusted authorities. These include math tricks, statistical misrepresentations, and word games.
- The enlightening but outrageous big money considerations behind the government’s Covid treatments of choice, such as remdesivir; and the much-beleaguered but more proven and promising hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin.
- The CDC’s many mistakes on Covid statistics, which always fell in the direction of exaggerating Covid’s true risks, especially to children. She also examines the CDC’s ever-elusive budget, and CDC’s Directors of Fortune—who go onto jobs with lucrative partnerships with pharma interests.
- The goods on evidence of Covid’s origins, including the grants that prove our tax dollars were funding controversial “gain of function” research with the communist Chinese, despite much reporting that made it seem uncertain. Sharyl also pulls from sources to analyze how government officials responsible for the controversial partnership, such as Dr. Fauci and EcoHealth Alliance’s Peter Daszak, took part in secretly orchestrating efforts to publicly “debunk” the “lab leak theory.”
- Alarming new truths being revealed in the aftermath of Covid and Covid vaccines: not only abnormal clotting, heart attacks, and strokes; but also long term and mysterious health problems that can affect most any part of the body—often dismissed or misdiagnosed by mainstream doctors who are not being taught the latest emerging and cutting edge science.
Big Pharma’s critics are often silenced or labeled “science deniers.” Even major media stories have been suppressed to placate pharmaceutical advertisers. The rift has only grown since the major pharmaceutical companies and their allies attacked anyone who dared to question the Covid-19 vaccines, and new treatments that proved disappointing despite skyrocketing costs.With its powerful message of truth and justice, FOLLOW THE SCIENCE is a must-read for anyone who cares about the future of our healthcare system and their own family’s health.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Sharyl Attkisson has been a working journalist for more than forty years and is host and managing editor of the nonpartisan Sunday morning TV program Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson. She has covered controversies under the administrations of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump, emerging with a reputation, as the Washington Post put it, as a “persistent voice of news-media skepticism about the government’s story.” She is the recipient of five Emmy Awards and an Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative reporting. She has worked at CBS News, PBS, and CNN, and is a fifth degree blackbelt master in Taekwondo.
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Sharyl and Lisa—and Full Measure Team,
Re : Science vs. “Science”
17 years ago, while still traversing my
Sixties, my dental hygienist asked about
MEDS I’m taking. After saying that “I
don’t take pharmaceuticals,” she had a
problem believing me—and asked two
more times while hovering over my
chart with her pen.
Helena Glass writes about questionable
VIROLOGY, which ought to drive you
toward NUTRITION Science—to avoid
Big Pharma drugs, many of which came
to market having just passed the efficacy
of a PLACEBO (( allowed by CDC in the
late 1990s )) :
https://helenaglass.net/2024/08/16/viruses-vs-parasites/
-Rick
I’ve pre ordered and anxiously awaiting delivery. I’m particularly interested in anything you might have covered on the link between salt, (or lack of) and its connection to autism. The rise in the low salt diet fad, based on bad science, coincides with the sudden rise in autism in children. At one time there were mountains of contradictory evidence of the harm a low salt diet does to a body and the need for salt in developing fetuses and children, but bad science won out so now we are programmed into believing salt is bad for every one because it may be bad for some, as one MD put it, recommending a low salt diet for everyone because it is bad for some is like prescribing eyeglasses for everyone because some people need them. But, now I can’t find anything about it. Medical journals published articles on the benefits of salt and the need for sodium in our bodies, especially for nerve development in fetuses and children, but it seems they’ve been scrubbed from public view. It’s more profitable to blame vaccines and big pharmaceutical than poor diet choices.
10 years ago, I slipped on my pool steps and broke four of my vertebrae. I was laid up for months and taking pain meds constantly. After I was ready to return to work, my Dr. wanted to run some tests to see if anything else was going on. The lab results were alarming. Things were bad, but there was a pill for all the things that were going wrong. Things got worse, my system was shutting down, the dr was stumped, but there were other pills to take, still things were getting worse. My dr told me I had less than a year to live. One day I was visiting a friend and saw an acquaintance walking down the hall of the apartment and puffing on an electric vape pen. This little old lady, retired school teacher, in her 80’s and probably weighed 90 lbs, I asked her what in the world was she doing. She told me it was her medical marijuana and it helped her in dealing with the side effects of chemotherapy. I quizzed her some more. I had always been against marijuana use, because I had always been told in PSA’s how bad it was. So I decided to rethink my position and get a prescription. To really test the efficacy of the marijuana, I stopped taking any type of pain med. The results were remarkable. The pain relief would come in a minute or two rather than the half hour or so from oral meds. Then my next lab results came in and things had stopped the downward slide and showed improvement in some areas. So, then I started reading the fine print on the info sheet they give you and discovered my problems were being caused by the meds. I stopped all medications, including diabetes meds, and the three different statins, and suddenly, all my biological metrics got back to the normal range. I’m 70 years old and have suffered migraines since I was a teenager. I went to my primary care dr and asked for help and he prescribed something, stating he didn’t know why people have migraines. I got home with my prescription and read the fine print and was shocked to read about the “common” side effects, never mind the rare side effects. I’d rather have the migraines than deal with the common side effects. One was a caution that if I start taking the prescription, to not stop without being under dr care because it could be fatal to stop taking if I’ve started. I searched my medical marijuana supplier website and found a strain that was good for headaches. So I went to my dispensary and got some. When I have a migraine, I’m usually out of commission for the day, in a dark room, head wrapped with a pillow and heating pad and absolute silence. This occurs to me often several times a week but always at least once a week. On this day, I was on my way home from the dispensary and had a migraine and decided to try my new prescription and as I drove home, within a mile, my migraine was gone. That was April, 1st, and I haven’t had a migraine since then. After suffering a lifetime of misery and isolation, the solution was so simple. My medical marijuana dr told me that if the public knew the benefits of medical marijuana, it would put the pharmaceutical companies and a lot of hospitals out of business. So, now, I’m free of all prescription and otc drugs and 10 years after being given a death sentence, I’m still kicking and active and lost 60 lbs and dance three times a week and in better health than I’ve ever been. Just this week got lab results and was informed my results were better than most people half my age. But, just to be on the safe side, my gastroenterologist dr recommended a new drug that just came out that was a preventative medicine for an ailment I don’t have but the meds would prevent the development of that malady. No thanks I said.
Marty Brinley,
Regarding your reference to AUTISM,
vaccine schedules cause it (( toxins in
vaccines notwithstanding )) in babies
and young children :
https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/marin-county-defies-cdc-vaccine-schedule-reports-record-breaking-decline-in-autism-rates/?s=09
-Rick