By Andrea Gordon Living Reporter
Like most parents today, Nadine Silverthorne doesn’t chew over major child-rearing decisions without a heaping side dish of angst. And whether or not to vaccinate her two children is one of her biggest.
The Toronto mother has combed websites, blogged about childhood immunization and canvassed friends and family. She has polled her followers on Twitter and quizzed her doctor and homeopath. She remains torn.
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How Big Pharma Profits From Fear
Posted by sakerfa on January 8, 2010
With Big Pharma raking in billions off swine flu fears, the last thing they need is a government handout.
Yet Uncle Sam is busy playing Daddy Warbucks with YOUR lunch money, helping Swiss drugmaker Novartis open a new vaccine plant in North Carolina. You’ve generously contributed around $700 million to help Novartis build their shiny new drug factory — $220 million three years ago, and $486 million this year.
With Big Pharma raking in billions off swine flu fears, the last thing they need is a government handout.
Yet Uncle Sam is busy playing Daddy Warbucks with YOUR lunch money, helping Swiss drugmaker Novartis open a new vaccine plant in North Carolina. You’ve generously contributed around $700 million to help Novartis build their shiny new drug factory — $220 million three years ago, and $486 million this year.
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