#263 – John Abramson: Big Pharma

John Abramson is faculty at Harvard Medical School and a family
physician for over two decades. He’s the author of the new book
Sickening about how big pharma broke American healthcare and how
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OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players
you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that
time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(14:29) – Biggest problem with big pharma
(23:30) – Advertising
(43:22) – Corruption
(59:38) – Pfizer vaccine data
(1:08:30) – Vaccine profits
(1:19:25) – Censorship
(1:40:11) – FDA
(1:48:45) – NIH
(1:57:42) – Live longer
(2:01:13) – Medications
(2:09:37) – Doctors
(2:13:44) – Advice for young people
(2:14:40) – Big pharma’s influence
(2:19:24) – Mortality
(2:21:15) – Meaning of life