Women's Rights Employment Law Blog

By Jack Tuckner, Esq.



"Step on it twice, make four times what you pay, divide the labor costs and still come away with enough to play."
--Gangsta Rapper Shyne on inner city crack dealing

A Wall Street Journal story by David Armstrong entitled “Financial Ties to Industry Cloud Major Depression Study” is an over the-top expose, otherwise little known or cared about, regarding the endemic corruption pervading our country's mainstream medical establishment, or the medico-pharmaceutical complex, if you will.

Our country's most eminent leading physicians--Harvard-educated, board-sitting, regularly published doctors who tour, speak and get paid mad money to shill for the drug companies. No better than two-bit hookers selling themselves for a throw. This particular scandal involves the crème de la crème of docs recommending that women maintain their use of psychotropic meds while pregnant, lest they begin to feel a tad bummed out again--this recommendation comes notwithstanding the substantial concerns raised by independents regarding the obvious risks to the fetus. Why??

Because Pfizer and Merck, et al are paying for the research, paying for the speeches and generally buying these nickel-bag cretins so that they will sell their colleagues, as well as the duped end user, on the safety and efficacy of ingesting certain synthetic chemicals--a.k.a. drugs--that these mega-billion dollar companies have significant vested interests in promoting. Hello? Disingenuity at its finest--raw greed--unabashed criminality. And of course, apart from this latest Journal revelation--which is really old news--corporate Media is too threatened by the thought of speaking truth to these omnipotent entities to even make a peep.

And of course, none of these top docs reveal this financial connection--it's deemed unimportant--while they fence drugs to pharmacies and their colleagues. Pure corruption--capitalism at it's morally-compromised worst, money for nothing and your chicks for free. While we continue to lock up 1 vial crack sellers for up to 25 years under the draconian Rockefeller drug laws, we let these "legal" drug pushers off scot-free and super wealthy--with nary a thought--or negative comparison--or any accountability. We reward all colluders with extreme abundance. At least the one-vial crack buyer knows what she is buying and why--there's truth in advertising there--the product sells itself--the same cannot be said of the women fooled into continuing to anesthetize themselves during pregnancy at the not so gentle prodding of our most trusted experts.

So, like the women who gave birth to mutated children and then died horrible deaths from uterine cancer from the mispromoted use of DES in the 50's, we have a scandal of far greater proportion unfolding here--and this is of course, just the tip of the iceberg.