Scientific Publishing Industry Has Become An Oligopoly
The flow of scientific research has significantly metamorphosed in the last 40 years. The content and production of published scientific research in the 21st century has been significantly influenced by a change in ownership of mainstream medical journals. As a result, today the scientific publishing industry has become an oligopoly that is controlled by a few big…
Merck Leads World’s Top Vaccine Makers, Novartis Out
The vaccine manufacturing industry has long been dominated by five companies. In alphabetical order, these include multi-national firms GlaxoSmithKline plc (GSK) of Brentford, England; Merck & Co. of Kenilworth, NJ.; Novartis AG of Basel, Switzerland; Pfizer, Inc. of New York City, NY; and Sanofi Pasteur SA of Lyon, France. In 2014, the value of the world market for…
University of Toronto Students Protest “Alternative Health” Vaccine Course
In the spring and summer of 2015, a course offered by the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto in Scarborough, Canada titled “Alternative Health: Practice and Theory” sparked an outcry among students attending the University’s medical school. The medical students alleged that the instructor, Professor Beth Landau-Halpern (photo left-hand…
Pfizer Vaccines: From Cradle to Grave
The Associated Press (AP) is reporting that Pfizer, Inc. of New York has been significantly expanding its vaccines product line. In a press briefing on July 21, 2015, Pfizer officials expressed their company’s plans to have vaccines to help protect people “from cradle to grave, from shots for pregnant women to protect their babies from the moment of birth to vaccines…
Tufts University Study Pegs World Vaccine Sales at $40 Billion by 2020
The value of the world market for vaccines was estimated at $33.1 billion in 2014—up from $24 billion in 2009 and $5 billion in 2000. A new study conducted by Tufts University’s Center for the Study of Drug Development (CSDD) in Boston, MA forecasts annual sales of vaccines around the world will reach $40 billion by 2020. According to a summary of the…
Biomedical Scientist Imprisoned for Fraudulent HIV Vaccine Research
On July 1, 2015, Dong-Pyou Han, a former biomedical scientist at Iowa State University, was sentenced to 57 months in prison for falsifying clinical trial data on HIV vaccines. He was also fined $7.2 million and will be under supervision for three years after his release. The story has been covered extensively by the media in the United States and abroad, including…