Is Big Pharma Controlling Public Health?

Name: Is Big Pharma Controlling Public Health?
Uploaded: 2025-01-24T19:33:15+00:00
Duration: 55 s
Channel: Claudia von Boeselager
Description: In this short YouTube excerpt, two speakers discuss the alleged dominance of major pharmaceutical companies over public health policy. Speaker A cites a…

24 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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In this short YouTube excerpt, two speakers discuss the alleged dominance of major pharmaceutical companies over public health policy. Speaker A cites a combined $90 billion profit for Pfizer, BioNTech, Moderna, and Sinovac from COVID‑19 vaccines and related medicines in 2021‑2022, and claims that Big Pharma financially backs many U.S. politicians and media outlets, creating an extreme conflict of interest. Speaker B reinforces the claim by pointing out that 9 of the last 10 FDA commissioners have moved directly into roles with Big Pharma—citing Scott Gottlieb’s board seat at Pfizer and Stephen Hahn’s post‑FDA position at Flagship Capital, the venture arm of Moderna—arguing that this revolving‑door relationship has corrupted public‑health regulation.

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I was looking at some of the statistics here as well, and astoundingly, Pfizer, BioNTech, Moderna, and Sinovac collectively made $90 billion in profits from the COVID-19 vaccine and related medicines in 2021 and 2022 alone. We are hearing more with different information that is being shared across the US about how Big Pharma is involved with media, and a lot of politicians, their biggest supporters financially are also from Big Pharma as well. So the conflict of interest is so extreme. What role do you see that playing in what panned out here?
9 out of the 10 last FDA commissioners, they actually work for Big Pharma. Scott Gottlieb, former FDA commissioner, a young commissioner, he's on the board of Pfizer. The FDA commissioner after him, Stephen Hahn, joined Flagship Capital, which is the venture capital firm for Moderna. There can't be anything more clear than this, that the public health sector and these regulatory officials have become corrupted by this huge money in Big Pharma.