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Taxpayers Paid $6.2 Billion to Develop Weight-loss Drugs. Pharma Charges Consumers a Premium — Driving Up Healthcare Costs for Everyone

U.S. taxpayers picked up the tab for about $6.2 billion worth of research, development and distribution of GLP-1s, the new class of blockbuster weight-loss drugs, according to an investigation by The Lever.

The “blockbuster drugs” generate annual sales exceeding $1 billion for Big Pharma.

Drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy and Zepbound — which belong to the glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) class of drugs — are “minting billions of dollars” for Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk, the companies that make them.

Taxpayers fund the research. Pharma reaps massive profits. And Americans pay up to 11 times more for the drugs than people in other countries. The marked-up prices are inflating insurance premiums and risk bankrupting the country’s healthcare system, according to The Lever.

Researchers at Bentley University shared data with The Lever showing that between 1980 and 2024, the federal government spent $6.2 billion on the discovery and development of GLP-1 molecules, plus research on how to use those molecules to treat diabetes, obesity and other health conditions.

“You have to know a lot to develop a drug and to apply it in people,” Dr. Fred Ledley, professor of Natural and Applied Sciences at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts, told The Lever. “What we call a ‘mature body of knowledge’ is not cheap.” Ledley provided the spending data to The Lever.

That research laid the foundation for the development of Ozempic and triggered a wave of similar drugs that spawned a massive market.

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Medical Surveillance Part 2: Tracking the Unvaccinated

Part 1 of “Medical Surveillance” revealed how contact tracing evolved into databases called real-time AI ecosystems. The data stored in these ecosystems ranges from medical records to genomic sequences that were largely collected using Covid-19 PCR tests. Health privacy laws were revised to enable an alarming amount of data sharing with public and private intelligence agencies for military operations. Using the Covid-19 scamdemic as a front, the military worked with so-called health authorities to weaponize Covid-19 statistics to target non-compliant or undesirable groups with mRNA vaccines, ventilators, and Remdesivir. In other words, it was a military operation that utilized covertly collected private medical and genetic data to deploy bioweapons. Targets were acquired using AI generated predictive behavior models provided by government intelligence agencies like Palantir. If that sounds disturbing to you, keep reading because that was just a warm-up.

The DELAYED REACTION THAT ENABLED THE ILLUSION OF THE PANDEMIC OF THE UNVACCINATED

As contact tracing phased into the background and the genome-collection method known as PCR testing was normalized, one more important piece of data needed to be collected: vaccination status.

The mockingbird media foreshadowed that vaccination status must be made public information because during a public health emergency everyone has a right to know their risk. Soon everyone would need to have a Covid-19 shot to travel, work, go to school, and participate in society. All this would inevitably lead to a vaccine passport. Yet there was no official way to track who was vaccinated in the healthcare industry.

The CDC and Medicare (CMS) announced new codes for tracking vaccination status that would go live on April 1st 2022. The update occurred exactly two years after the Covid-19 diagnosis code went live — on April fools’ Day. This time the emergency update was for the purposes of tracking vaccination status. It just wasn’t an emergency during the most aggressive portion of the vaccine campaign; the part where everyone had to get the shot in order for society to come out of lockdown and “go back to normal”. At any point during 2021, the CDC, CMS, or the AMA could have stopped the presses to do another emergency update to introduce a new code for vaccination status (or for adverse events, for that matter). They did not.

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Dr. David Weldon’s stance on the safety of MMR vaccines 25 years ago has led to a loss of support for his CDC nomination

Dr. David Weldon has withdrawn his bid to become director of the CDC.  He believes, as do many, that Big Pharma has influenced Senators so that it is unlikely that he would have garnered sufficient votes to confirm his appointment.

Why does Big Pharma not want Dr. Weldon in the CDC?  Because of the stance he took 25 years ago on the lack of safety of childhood vaccines.

Dr. David Weldon is an American politician and physician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Florida’s 15th congressional district.  In November 2024, Donald Trump nominated Weldon as the next director of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) but Trump withdrew the nomination in March 2025 due to concerns about Dr. Weldon’s anti-vaccine views and lack of support in the Senate.

Earlier today, Brownstone Institute published a statement from Dr. Weldon which explains why he withdrew his nomination.  Dr. Weldon believes that it is likely Big Pharma exerted pressure on Senators to withdraw support for his nomination based on events that happened decades earlier.   “My big sin was that as a congressman 25 years ago I had the temerity to take on the CDC and big Pharma on two critical childhood vaccine safety issues,” he said.

One of the safety issues related to a neurotoxic preservative called thimerosal, a mercury-containing organic compound, in childhood vaccines that was causing autism.  The second was the safety of the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine, or MMR vaccine.

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Drugs taken by millions in US can cause ‘deviant’ sexual behavior including pedophilia — but patients aren’t warned by doctors

A class of drugs commonly used to treat movement disorders like Parkinson’s disease and restless leg syndrome is pushing people into risky sexual behavior. 

Patients taking dopamine agonists say the drugs have triggered uncontrollable impulses, including flashing, sex addiction and even pedophilia — leaving them struggling with feelings of shame and confusion.

Reports reviewed by the BBC suggest drugmaker GSK has known about the risk of so-called “deviant” sexual behavior since 2003, yet patients claim their doctors continue to fail to warn them about these potentially devastating side effects.

Dopamine agonists mimic dopamine, a key brain chemical that controls movement and is activated by pleasure. However, these drugs can overstimulate feelings of pleasure while dulling the brain’s ability to recognize the consequences of our actions.

This can lead to impulse control disorders, with studies showing 13% to 24% of Parkinson’s patients on dopamine agonists develop them. While a warning about these risky behaviors is listed alongside common side effects like nausea and insomnia, research suggests they often go unnoticed or undiagnosed.

In the US, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine recommends the drugs only be used for short-term treatment, such as end-of-life care.

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POLIO was 98% eradicated BEFORE THE VACCINE was ever invented and put into circulation, beginning the BIGGEST MEDICAL FARCE in history

Polio propaganda is the most feared fake news in the world. Key historical information is missing from the allopathic “dictionaries” and the mouths of physicians across America. Facts and figures must be discussed and considered, from long-overlooked medical journals and books, including myth-shattering graphs revealing the mass decline of infectious disease before vaccines, and before antibiotics and pharmaceuticals came into the picture at all.

The medical profession is trained to ignore the truth. Live virus vaccines against paralytic poliomyelitis carry with them the inherent difficulty of controlling live viruses once they are placed in a live person. Today, Western Medicine has frightened parents into believing their children will likely die young if not inoculated with a schedule of over thirty injections by age six, starting from the day the child is born. Measles, smallpox and polio are not the plague. Any well-nourished child who gets adequate vitamin A and D will normally recover just fine.

The Decline of Infectious Diseases Came BEFORE the Vaccination Propaganda

Beginning in the mid-1800s, there was a steady drop in deaths from ALL infectious diseases, receding to minor levels by the early 1900s. Why?

History shows us that societies underwent a transformation to healthier living habits, and vitamins were discovered that increase immunity, like vitamin D. Yet, behind closed doors, the American Medical Association would prove to be the starting ground for a massive fear and propaganda campaign waged by the pharmaceutical manufacturers and aided by scientists who faked test results on vaccines for money.

Unfortunately, infant immunity has been misunderstood by immunologists. Interrupting normal immunity with injections of aluminum, mercury, formaldehyde and combinations of live viruses that can work in tandem can be completely unpredictable. Pro-vaccine doctors often cite “peer reviewed literature” to prove points, but a closer look proves the opposite, which reveals a sick population of vaccinated children those same pro-vax physicians supposedly care for.

Starting in the mid-1800s, there was a steady drop in the deaths from all these infectious diseases, decreasing by the mid-1900s to very low levels. By the 1920s and 30s doctors were very relaxed over the same diseases our mass media present today like it’s the plague. Most infectious diseases were simply holidays from school for kids who had normal immune systems that weren’t beat down by carcinogenic “medicines” and suffering inflammation from neurologically impairing heavy metal toxins.

The true story of polio involves vaccine-induced paralytic polio caused by the Salk vaccines. In fact, Dr. Albert Sabin’s version of the oral polio vaccine (OPV) continues to cause paralysis in vaccine recipients now, in 2015. History may prove that the dreaded virus that crippled our ancestors was injected into people as part of a sick medical experiment. That’s the truth of the matter the mass media will never publish.

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Pfizer CEO Flops Attempting to Defend Vax Liability Shield

The very simple — and unexpected, coming from CNBC, which usually runs cover for pharmaceutical corporations as a matter of course — question posed to Albert Bourla:

Vaccine makers like yourself [are] largely shielded from liability. If the products are safe and effective, what is the need to continue to shield, to have these liability shields, and what happens if those shields are changed or go away completely?

The very simple answer, assuming the vaccines are actually “safe and effective,” would be: “Nothing happens if we lose our liability shield. We don’t need it because our product is safe and effective, and we are willing to prove that in court if need be.”

That’s not what Bourla said. Instead, he offered a word salad about how the trustworthy FDA would never approve a dangerous and ineffective vaccine. Therefore, by virtue of the fact that the FDA allowed the COVID shots to go to market, they are by definition “safe and effective.”

Also, he adds, American juries are too stupid to decide whether an injury was caused by a vaccine or a car accident.

If the product is not safe and effective, it would never get approval from the FDA or from the other health authorities… They are very strict when they are approving products, particularly for vaccines… However, in a system that litigations can flourish, anyone can create, demand that the accident in the car happened because of the vaccine, and uh, with a jury, it’s going to be flip of the coin. And this is, I think, why the Congress — it was not an administration — had passed this legislation that is protecting those that they have approval from the FDA from federal liabilities.

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Ozempic Linked to 19 Adverse Health Events

By now, most people around the world have heard of Ozempic and Wegovy, which are GLP-1 receptor agonists. These drugs, originally made for treating Type 2 diabetes, cause rapid weight loss, thus attracting individuals who have been struggling to lose weight for a long time. In fact, the effectiveness of these drugs has led to a global shortage.1 However, as with many other drugs that promise immediate results, there’s a catch.

A report from The Epoch Times2 covered a study published in Nature Medicine,3 showing the impact of certain GLP-1 receptor agonists, sold under brand names such as Ozempic and Wegovy. As noted by The Epoch Times, “The media, patients, and even some doctors have dubbed the medications ‘miracle drugs’ because of their profound weight-loss effects.”4

In addition to weight loss, the study also noted that these drugs also lower the risk of “seizures and addiction to substances such as alcohol, cannabis, stimulants and opioids.”5 It’s believed that these drugs affect the brain’s neurological pathways related to reward and impulse control, explaining how these changes in behavior occur.6

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Moderna Shots vs. COVID Disease

A golden rule in vaccine manufacture is that you are supposed to create an inoculating substance which is, itself, less dangerous than the disease you aim to prevent. But new developments now allow more precise estimation than ever before regarding true harm from Moderna shots and true harm from COVID.

The 12-month death risk from COVID has a headline number which all rational persons understand to be overestimated. From a member of the COVID task force, a non-hands-on estimate of purposeful inflation of COVID death numbers was 25%.

But a hands-on (direct) estimate later on, from a doctor with actual experience at the bed-side during COVID (someone with boots on the ground, in the trenches), ended up tripling that first estimate which, to reiterate, had been produced from the White House bubble (without bed-side experience).

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Trump Administration Considers Pulling Taxpayer Funds for Moderna’s Bird Flu Shot

The Trump administration is reportedly reconsidering the $590 million contract the Biden administration awarded to drug giant Moderna for an mRNA bird flu shot.

An initial report of the news at Bloomberg was critical of the move and referred to Moderna as being “known for its highly successful Covid-19 shot.”

“Robert F. Kennedy Jr., now President Donald Trump’s top health official, has been a vaccine skeptic and openly criticized Covid-19 shots,” the Bloomberg report stated. “In 2021, during the height of the pandemic, Kennedy called them ‘the deadliest vaccine ever made.’ According to the US National Institutes of Health, which now answers to Kennedy, Covid vaccines saved tens of millions of lives during the pandemic.”

The Wall Street Journal reported today that, in the wake of the news of the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) review of the Biden move to fund its mRNA shot, Moderna shares fell 3%. Reuters reported the pharmaceutical company’s shares “fell 5.5% in after-market trading.”

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Pharma-Sponsored Media Launches Measles Fear Campaign Based on Distorted Science

A google search for ‘measles’ reveals the coordinated fear campaign propagated by pharma-sponsored mass media…

Is there a reason to cower in fear as the news suggests and rush to get MMR booster shots? No, especially not for healthy children. However, we must remember that children with multiple comorbidities can face serious outcomes, as with any disease. It’s important to approach these discussions with a level-headed assessment of individual risk rather than reacting to sensationalized headlines.

Measles outbreaks occur every year across the United States despite 90.8% MMR vaccine uptake…

Shedding of measles vaccine RNA is a recognized phenomenon, with detectable levels in nasopharyngeal samples for up to 29 days post-vaccination (Washam et al). This shedding results from the replication of the attenuated vaccine virus, which can be transmitted to close contacts.

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