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“The Problem of Big Pharma”
Sharyl Attkisson
Journalist and Author, _Follow the Science: How Big Pharma Misleads,
Obscures, and Prevails_
This speech was given on February 19, 2025, during a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Timecodes
0:00 Introduction: How Pharma Corrupted Medicine
0:48 The Smallpox Vaccine & David Bloom
6:53 How Nonprofits Are Captured by Industry: The American Cancer Society
11:55 Unethical Medical Research: The Baby Oxygen Study
15:20 How Informed Consent Rules Were Quietly Gutted
16:50 Medical Journals for Sale: Big Pharma's Takeover of Science
21:33 How Big Pharma Shapes Doctors in Medical School
25:34 Continuing Medical Education: Pharma's Backdoor to Your Doctor
28:48 FDA Capture
34:54 Q&A
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Hillsdale College is an independent institution of higher learning founded in 1844 by men and women “grateful to God for the inestimable blessings” resulting from civil and religious liberty and “believing that the diffusion of learning is essential to the perpetuity of these blessings.” It pursues the stated object of the founders: “to furnish all persons who wish, irrespective of nation, color, or sex, a literary, scientific, [and] theological education” outstanding among American colleges “and to combine with this such moral and social instruction as will best develop the minds and improve the hearts of its pupils.” As a nonsectarian Christian institution, Hillsdale College maintains “by precept and example” the immemorial teachings and practices of the Christian faith.
The College also considers itself a trustee of our Western philosophical and theological inheritance tracing to Athens and Jerusalem, a heritage finding its clearest expression in the American experiment of self-government under law.
By training the young in the liberal arts, Hillsdale College prepares students to become leaders worthy of that legacy. By encouraging the scholarship of its faculty, it contributes to the preservation of that legacy for future generations. By publicly defending that legacy, it enlists the aid of other friends of free civilization and thus secures the conditions of its own survival and independence.
Visit our full library of content at https://freedomlibrary.hillsdale.edu/home?utm_campaign=ea_15min&utm_medium=youtube&utm_source=youtube&utm_content=main-fl-homepage
“The Problem of Big Pharma”
Sharyl Attkisson
Journalist and Author, _Follow the Science: How Big Pharma Misleads,
Obscures, and Prevails_
This speech was given on February 19, 2025, during a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Timecodes
0:00 Introduction: How Pharma Corrupted Medicine
0:48 The Smallpox Vaccine & David Bloom
6:53 How Nonprofits Are Captured by Industry: The American Cancer Society
11:55 Unethical Medical Research: The Baby Oxygen Study
15:20 How Informed Consent Rules Were Quietly Gutted
16:50 Medical Journals for Sale: Big Pharma's Takeover of Science
21:33 How Big Pharma Shapes Doctors in Medical School
25:34 Continuing Medical Education: Pharma's Backdoor to Your Doctor
28:48 FDA Capture
34:54 Q&A
Support Hillsdale College: https://secured.hillsdale.edu/hillsdale/support-hillsdale-college
Visit our website: http://hillsdale.edu
Learn from our online courses: http://online.hillsdale.edu
Read Imprimis: https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/
Undergraduate programs: https://www.hillsdale.edu/information-for/undergraduate-admissions/
Graduate School of Statesmanship: https://www.hillsdale.edu/academics/graduate-school/
Graduate School of Government: https://dc.hillsdale.edu/School-of-Government/Program-Overview/
Graduate School of Education: https://classicalgrad.hillsdale.edu/
Listen to the Hillsdale College Podcast Network: https://podcast.hillsdale.edu/
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Hillsdale College is an independent institution of higher learning founded in 1844 by men and women “grateful to God for the inestimable blessings” resulting from civil and religious liberty and “believing that the diffusion of learning is essential to the perpetuity of these blessings.” It pursues the stated object of the founders: “to furnish all persons who wish, irrespective of nation, color, or sex, a literary, scientific, [and] theological education” outstanding among American colleges “and to combine with this such moral and social instruction as will best develop the minds and improve the hearts of its pupils.” As a nonsectarian Christian institution, Hillsdale College maintains “by precept and example” the immemorial teachings and practices of the Christian faith.
The College also considers itself a trustee of our Western philosophical and theological inheritance tracing to Athens and Jerusalem, a heritage finding its clearest expression in the American experiment of self-government under law.
By training the young in the liberal arts, Hillsdale College prepares students to become leaders worthy of that legacy. By encouraging the scholarship of its faculty, it contributes to the preservation of that legacy for future generations. By publicly defending that legacy, it enlists the aid of other friends of free civilization and thus secures the conditions of its own survival and independence.
