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I like that there are so many cases, you had to alphabetize them 😁.

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Random observance....no drugs begin with the letters F, I, J, K, M, O, Q, U or Y. Yet.

Remember how one woman saved the US back in the 1960's by not letting

Doctors prescribe Thalidomide as a sleeping pill. Frances Oldham Kelsey.

Kennedy gave her a medal for it and then...

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There are some that begin with those letters but they don't necessarily have high profile lawsuits.

F is for Feldene was another one I talked about in my later series.

I is for black box warning Inflectra but not sure if there have been any lawsuits there.

M is for black box warning Mylotarg, which was withdrawn from the market (will talk about that in a future article). I also think there was a veterinary drug lost lawsuits on that started with an M but can't remember fully.

Q is for Quillivant XR, which Pfizer lost a small lawsuit on. (I think something to do with copayments)

Not sure about J, K, O, U, or Y though. If I had to guess at least a couple of those letters can be crossed off.

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It's kinda silly to count them, I know. I was trying to note the number so far of suits to Phizer, about 25 or so, so far. Extrapolating from this...the few suits that make it that far, and the many more that never get reported for miriad reasons....my conclusion is to ask when a corporation can be dissolved for being a public menace overall?

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Some of these drugs have thousands of ongoing lawsuits (often judges will force them into class actions due to the sheer volume). For Rezulin alone, there were 35,000 personal injury claims

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Public menace. You would think some judges might begin to note that this one type of case is clogging the legal system. I guess it makes for more judges needed, more courthouses, more jails. Guess they wont notice much.

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The Canadian documentary film 'The Corporation' details an effort to revoke a corporate charter in the face of clear behavior representing a danger to the public. The film is maybe 15 years old or more now, but as relevant as it was the day it was released.

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Its here but had some trouble finding the movie...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHrhqtY2khc

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Makes Dr Harold Shipman look like a rank amateur.

This was deliberate mass- murder, wasn't it? I mean, there is no nice way to gloss that. But the Public Prosecutor won't touch it.

I'm wondering what recourse there is for relatives under the Common Law and I'm inclined to think that the no-win, no-fee, class action route might be the best way to get to the truth.

https://jdee.substack.com/p/the-iatrogenesis-hypothesis

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Makes Dr Harold Shipman look like a rank amateur.

This was deliberate mass- murder, wasn't it? I mean, there is no nice way to gloss that. But the Public Prosecutor won't touch it.

I'm wondering what recourse there is for relatives under the Common Law and I'm inclined to think that the no-win, no-fee, class action route might be the best way to get to the truth.

https://jdee.substack.com/p/the-iatrogenesis-hypothesis

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Nice work!

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PLS TWEET this, y’all!! @elonmusk is a good place

to start.

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The drug cartel.

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