{"id":67368,"date":"2024-04-17T15:10:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T20:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67368"},"modified":"2024-04-17T15:10:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T20:10:25","slug":"fact-checkers-caught-looking-the-other-way-again-as-pfizer-nabbed-spreading-vaccine-misinformation-and-bringing-discredit-on-the-entire-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67368","title":{"rendered":"Fact Checkers Caught Looking the Other Way (Again!) As Pfizer Nabbed Spreading Vaccine Misinformation and \u201cBringing Discredit\u201d on the Entire Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fact Checkers Caught Looking the Other Way (Again!) As Pfizer Nabbed Spreading Vaccine Misinformation and \u201cBringing Discredit\u201d on the Entire Industry<\/a><\/h3>\n

Pfizer’s COVID vaccine corruption adds further evidence that fact checkers are the pharmaceutical industry\u2019s partners in crime.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A UK pharmaceutical body has\u00a0accused Pfizer of \u201cbringing discredit\u201d<\/a>\u00a0on their entire industry\u00a0 after Pfizer\u2019s senior executives promoted the COVID vaccine on social media before it had even been licensed, breaching the regulatory code five times by making misleading claims, ignoring industry standards, and marketing unlicensed medicines.<\/p>\n

This is the sixth time the body has reprimanded Pfizer over COVID-19 vaccine promotion, a list that includes an\u00a0incident in late 2021<\/a>, when Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla was found to have given misleading statements about children\u2019s vaccines during a BBC interview. That same year, CNN Business named Bourla \u201cCEO of the Year,\u201d and his\u00a0estimated worth<\/a>\u00a0is now over $35 million.<\/p>\n

Last week\u2019s ruling against Pfizer by the Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority (PMCPA) further emphasizes the breadth of Pfizer\u2019s lies about their COVID vaccine. PMCPA found that Pfizer began violating industry standards in 2020 to promote their COVID vaccine, meaning Pfizer was misleading the public about their vaccine throughout the pandemic, even before announcing preliminary results of their COVID-19 clinical trials in late 2020.<\/p>\n

How bad are we talking here? Put it this way: PMCPA\u2019s blunt rulings against Pfizer are doubly surprising because the UK pharmaceutical industry set\u00a0up PMCPA in 1993<\/a>\u00a0as a self-regulating body that is\u00a0staffed with industry insiders<\/a>. One wonders how more often the PMCPA would have called out Pfizer for violating regulations if it was actually independent of the very corporations it\u2019s supposed to watch over.<\/p>\n

Seriously, people. It\u2019s that bad.<\/p>\n

But prepare yourself, it\u2019s gonna get worse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fact Checkers Caught Looking the Other Way (Again!) As Pfizer Nabbed Spreading Vaccine Misinformation and \u201cBringing Discredit\u201d on the Entire Industry Pfizer’s COVID vaccine corruption adds further evidence that fact checkers are the pharmaceutical industry\u2019s partners in crime. A UK pharmaceutical body has\u00a0accused Pfizer of \u201cbringing discredit\u201d\u00a0on their entire industry\u00a0 after Pfizer\u2019s senior executives promoted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[33652,34278,24218,14850,34204,13709],"class_list":["post-67368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-covid-vaccine","tag-disinformation-chronicles","tag-fact-checking-2","tag-fact-checkers","tag-paul-d-thacker","tag-pfizer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67369,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67368\/revisions\/67369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}