#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 we
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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