the New Yorker corroborates Sherman Skolnick's expose on the "Acceptable Left" CIA covert funding fronts: Espionage Establishment

 a certain New York-based charitable foundation, the J. M. Kaplan Fund.

The chair of the committee, a Texas congressman named Wright Patman, surmised that the reason the I.R.S. was not coöperating was that the C.I.A. was preventing it. Patman didn’t appreciate the disrespect; in retaliation, he made public a list of eight foundations that, between 1961 and 1963, had given almost a million dollars to the J. M. Kaplan Fund.

“Patman Attacks ‘Secret’ C.I.A. Link: Says Agency Gave Money to Private Group Acting as Its Sub-Rosa ‘Conduit’ ” was the headline in the Times, which published the names of the eight “conduit” foundations. After a closed-door meeting with representatives from the C.I.A. and the I.R.S., Patman emerged to announce that if there was a C.I.A. connection it was no longer of interest to his subcommittee, and that he was dropping the matter.

But the cat was partway out of the bag. As their transparently invented names suggest—the Gotham Foundation, the Borden Trust, the Andrew Hamilton Fund, and so on—these eight foundations were C.I.A. cutouts. The agency had approached wealthy people it knew to be sympathetic and asked them to head dummy foundations. Those people were then put on a masthead, a name for the foundation was invented, sometimes an office was rented to provide an address, and a conduit came into being. The members of the phony boards even held annual meetings, at which “business” was discussed, expenses paid by the agency.

The dummy foundations were used to channel money to groups the agency wanted to support. Sometimes the C.I.A. passed funds through the dummies to legitimate charitable foundations, like the Kaplan Fund, which in turn passed it along to groups like the National Student Association. Sometimes the cutouts existed solely to write checks to the C.I.A.’s beneficiaries.

 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/23/a-friend-of-the-devil

The above reminded me of the below:

http://www.whale.to/b/skolnick9.html 

Another $193,313 was funneled to the "7" from the federal Office of Economic Opportunity by way of or through subsidiaries of the Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, D.C., an alleged "liberal" think tank posing as a left wi ng group, but acting as a conduit for the C.I.A. Other substantial funds came from the Roger Baldwin Foundation which has, nationwide, taken over the structure of the American Civil Liberties Union. The A.C.L.U., such as it was prior to 1967, ; no longer exists. The Roger Baldwin Foundation is funded by several pass-throughs, or conduits, for the C.I.A., among others being:

J.M. Kaplan Fund, Inc. [of New York]; New World Foundation; Aaron E. Norman Fund, Inc.

This is shown by a detailed analysis of I.R.S. form 990-A, filed by these foundations [one of the few public record tax returns]. Several persons acting for the C.I.A. sit on the Board of Overseers of the Roger Baldwin Foundation : Jacob M. Kaplan and John L.Saltonstall, among others.

As to Jacob M. Kaplan, see: New York Times Index, "U.S. Intelligence Agency", 1967. Several members of the Saltonstall family are involved with the C.I.A.: Senator Leverett Saltonstall (R., Mass.), sits with a very small number o f people on the Senate C.I.A. sub-committee. Senator Saltonstall received warm praise in a rare public speech by the director of the C.I.A. Another Saltonstall family member posed as a "radical revolutionary" during 1968 Democratic Con vention Week, although in fact a counter-insurgent. Saltonstall's brother is a high-ranking C.I.A. official; see, "The Espionage Establishment" by David Wise and Thomas B. Ross, 1967, Random House, pp. 160-161; also pp. 148n; 171, 173, 173n.

 https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-056

Conduits  for  CIA  money  included  the  Andrew  Hamilton  Fund,  Beacon 
Fund,  Benjamin  Rosenthal  Foundation,  Borden  Trust,  Broad-High  Foundation, 
Catherwood  Foundation,  Chesapeake  Foundation,  David,  Joseph  and  Winfield 
Baird  Foundation,  Dodge  Foundation,  Edsel  Fund,  Florence  Foundation,  Goth- 
am Fund,  Heights  Fund,  Independence  Foundation,  J.  Frederick  Brown 
Foundation,  J.  M.  Kaplan  Foundation,  Jones-O’Donnell,  Kentfield  Fund,  Lit- 
tauer  Foundation,  Marshall  Foundation,  McGregor  Fund,  Michigan  Fund, 
Monroe  Fund,  Norman  Fund,  Pappas  Charitable  Trust,  Price  Fund,  Robert  E. 
Smith  Fund,  San  Miguel  Fund,  Sidney  and  Esther  Rabb  Charitable  Foundation, 
Tower  Fund,  Vernon  Fund,  Warden  Trust,  Williford-Telford  Fund. 
 

The Invisible Government also revealed the name and existence of the National Security Council's covert operations sub-committee, known as the 303 Group, which led to its renaming to the 40 Committee.

Wise and Ross charged that the CIA considered buying up the entire printing of The Invisible Government, but that the plan was rejected when the book's publisher, Random House, pointed out that if that happened they would have to print a second edition.^[4] A confidential CIA review of The Invisible Government, which was declassified in 1995, declared that:

"In Great Britain, which is second to none in its devotion to liberty, there exists an Official Secrets Act under which the authors would have been tried and sentenced to prison. … That much of this material has been printed before does not reduce the value to the Soviets of having it gathered in one volume under such genuine American auspices."^[5]

Self-Directed Neuroplasticity: Yoga meditation qigong Nick Fortino psychologist, yoga teacher

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ71JypYQWU

 Psychologist and Yoga teacher Nick Fortino, Ph.D., presents to an international audience on the topic of yoga and transformation. He explains the psychological and neurological aspects of transformation, and how yoga can facilitate this process.

 "The Software [mind/spirit] can change the Hardware [brain]"

 This review explores recent advancements in neurophenomenological approaches, particularly their application to meditation practices and potential clinical research translations. First, we examine innovative multidimensional phenomenological assessment tools designed to capture subtle, dynamic shifts in experiential content and structures of consciousness during meditation. These experience sampling approaches enable shedding new light on the mechanisms and dynamic trajectories of meditation practice and retreat. Second, we highlight how empirical studies in neurophenomenology leverage the expertise of experienced meditators to deconstruct aversive and self-related processes, providing detailed first-person reports that guide researchers in identifying novel behavioral and neurodynamic markers associated with pain regulation, self-dissolution, and acceptance of mortality. 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451902224003458 

 

 

Big Pharma created ADHD/depression epidemic when the DSM is based on "social constructions" not diseases

 former Harkness fellow at Harvard and columnist with the British Medical Journal, Dr Ray Moynihan is author of four books on the business of medicine. Dr. Ray Moynihan’s article "ADHD push warrants more attention" was published on page 11 of The Byron Shire Echo on November 15, 2023. The piece examines the sharp rise in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder diagnoses and awareness campaigns as part of a broader academic focus on medical overdiagnosis. Read the full publication at The Byron Shire Echo. [1]

Mad in America: Bad science, bad medicine, and the enduring mistreatment of the mentally ill, 
and Anatomy of an epidemic: magic bullets, psychiatric drugs, and the astonishing rise of mental illness in America

  medical journalist Robert Whitaker youtube talk.

 Major pharmaceutical companies often generate net profits reaching or exceeding $18 billion individually in a single fiscal year, with top firms like Johnson & Johnson and Merck reporting profits at or above that milestone. . The largest drug companies made over $130 billion in net earnings in 2025

https://www.protectourcare.org/greed-watch-drug-company-profits-skyrocket-as-trump-cuts-back-room-deals-that-screw-over-working-families/ 

Major Pharmaceutical Profits

Johnson & Johnson: Reported net profits of approximately $27 billion.
Merck: Recorded net profits around $18 billion.

 The continued uneasiness around ADHD is perhaps owed to the fact that there is little scientific consensus about the disorder, argues scholar Susan Hawthorne. “Despite decades refining its diagnostic category,” she writes, “aspects of [medical, scientific, and social] understanding and practice remain unsettled or controversial.” To this day, scientists debate whether the disorder is a form of biological dysfunction or simply a medicalization of normal deviance, promoted by pharmaceutical companies to sell drugs to bigger and bigger populations.

 https://daily.jstor.org/adhd-the-history-of-a-diagnosis/

A Disease Called Childhood: Why ADHD Became an American Epidemic

Marilyn Wedge

 

 A surprising new look at the rise of ADHD in America, arguing for a better paradigm for diagnosing and treating our children
 
In 1987, only 3 percent of American children were diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, also known as ADHD. By 2000, that number jumped to 7 percent, and in 2014 the number rose to an alarming 11 percent. To combat the disorder, two thirds of these children, some as young as three years old, are prescribed powerful stimulant drugs like Ritalin and Adderall to help them cope with symptoms. Meanwhile, ADHD rates have remained relatively low in other countries such as France, Finland, and the United Kingdom, and Japan, where the number of children diagnosed with and medicated for ADHD is a measly 1 percent or less. 

Alarmed by this trend, family therapist Marilyn Wedge set out to understand how ADHD became an American epidemic. If ADHD were a true biological disorder of the brain, why was the rate of diagnosis so much higher in America than it was abroad?

Accidental Intolerance: How We Stigmatize ADHD and How We Can Stop

Hawthorne, Susan C. C.

Language: English

Published by Oxford University Press, 2013

Science adds to our understanding of ADHD by working out mechanisms of causation, symptom production, and intervention. So far, despite alternative hypotheses, the sciences have also stood by models that align with DSM-defined ADHD. Why? In part because—allowing for significant gaps in scientific knowledge—the data fit, by and large. But science’s commitment to certain reasoning patterns and methodologies also encourages adherence. For example, sticking with the same model makes it simpler to demonstrate data convergence across fields: researchers can be more certain that they are comparing apples to apples. Similarly, the common focus on _difference_ (typically difference of “ADHD” from “non-ADHD”) meshes well with the DSM’s categorical portrayal of ADHD. These under-recognized effects of methodology, among other factors, slow down exploration of alternatives. Common methodologies and scientific goals also encourage dichotomization, reductionistic biological perspectives, and reification of ADHD—three aspects of the predominant view that contribute to intolerance.

Mental Health vs Well-Being 

 More ambitiously, there are high-profile proposals to adopt a positive definition, identifying mental health with psychic or even overall well-being. We argue against both: a definition of mental health as mere absence of mental illness is too thin, too undemanding, and too closely linked to psychiatric value judgments, while the definition in terms of well-being is too demanding and potentially oppressive. As a compromise, we sketch out a middle position. On this view, mental health is a primary good, that is, the psychological preconditions of pursuing any conception of the good life, including well-being, without being identical to well-being.

 psychoanalysis and all its attendant categories of trauma, repression, sublimation, and so on were getting purged from DSM-III,⁵ Boorse chose to ground his account of mental health, ostensibly scientific and objective, in the theory that was quickly losing ground in the psychiatric consensus.....Is health more than the “silence of the organs?”⁷ Boorse himself rejected the calls for a positive definition—they were prominent already in the 1970s—as entirely confused (Boorse, 1977, 568–70). The relevant medical concept is the negative one and the positive concept is mostly a rhetorical tool for enthusiasts of fitness, dieting, and other healthy living movements. Sure, prevention of disease is important, and these activities might be effective for that purpose, but nothing more than the standard negative definition is needed for that. Ideas that go under the label of positive health are only tools for reducing disease.

 The capacities of each and all of us to feel, think, and act in ways that enhance our ability to enjoy life and deal with the challenges we face.

 Diagnosis or Social Construct? - a 2025 ADHD Ph.D. thesis

 While the
clinical paradigm predominantly defines ADHD as a biological disorder—a persistent
pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that interferes with functioning or
development (American Psychiatric Association, 2022)—alternative perspectives suggest
that ADHD may be more of a social construct than a medical condition.
The most vehement critiques of ADHD medicalization were addressed by the
sociologists. Psychiatrists or physicians attend to stakeholders in collecting information
about the students with ADHD, and not on the genetic and neuroanatomy investigations.
Some sociologists consider that ADHD is not a biological or psychiatric disorder, and it
can be better explained by environmental causes or even by personality type (Edmunds,
2011; Hacking, 2000; Timimi, 2015). 

 I just ordered the below "lulu" book! 

They Say My Child Has 'adhd': Debunking the Bio-psychiatric Paradigm

De Dr. D.L. Edmunds, Ed.D.

 ADHD drugs!

 Disorders are only intelligible due to the normative and social context in which they are found, and so medical sociology can recognize the validity of biological claims about disorders, such as Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, while still asserting the essential social nature of disorder.

 really?

 This chapter reviews the philosophical literature on health and disease. It discusses naturalism (the view that disease is a value-free concept), normativism (the view that the concept of disease is, essentially, value laden), and reasons why the polarizing opposition between naturalism and normativism may have to be rejected or, at least, nuanced.

 Corporate Big Pharma Fascist norms

 Ph.D. thesis - what is "abnormality" anyway?

 Stein, D. J. (2008). Philosophy of psychopharmacology: Smart pills, happy pills, and pep pills. Cambridge University Press.

ADHD Nation: Children, Doctors, Big Pharma, and the Making of an American Epidemic

Schwarz, Alan

Language: English

Published by Scribner, 2017

 - I vividly recall an instance of an unusually zealous drug rep. This representative, in an attempt to beguile our office with promises of a revolutionary new medicinal construct, decked out the meeting area with an assortment of themed cupcakes, followed by a painfully euphoric karaoke session that was, unfortunately, most decidedly off-key. And while this feels like a snippet straight out of comic folklore, we must always remember to view these actions in the appropriate light."

Big Pharma Says You Have ADHD! 2024 book

by Dr. Jerry D. Smith Jr. (Author), Kara J. Smith (Editor

 "Big Pharma Says You Have ADHD!" is an eye-opening exploration into the intricate relationship between Big Pharma and ADHD diagnoses. Dr. Jerry D. Smith Jr. delves into the controversial practices of pharmaceutical giants and their influence on public perception and healthcare. Through engaging anecdotes and rigorous research, this book unveils the impact of Big Pharma on ADHD awareness, diagnosis, and treatment. If you've ever questioned the prevalence of ADHD diagnoses or the motivations behind them, this compelling read offers a critical, thought-provoking perspective. 

Meet the desktop setup community Skip navigation Create 9+ Avatar image Meet the desktop setup community The Selling of ADHD: Diagnoses, Prescriptions Soar After 20-Year Marketing Effort by Big Pharma 1/2  

 Taken at face value, the latest figures on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) suggest a growing epidemic in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 15 percent of high school children are diagnosed with ADHD. The number of those on stimulant medication is at 3.5 million, up from 600,000 two decades ago. ADHD is now the second most common long-term diagnosis in children, narrowly trailing asthma. But a new report in the New York Times questions whether these staggering figures reflect a medical reality, or an over-medicated craze that has earned billions in profits for the pharmaceutical companies involved. 

 part 2

 Sales for ADHD drugs like Adderall and Concerta topped $9 billion in the United States last year, a more than 500 percent jump from a decade before. The radical spike in diagnoses has coincided with a 20-year marketing effort to promote stimulant prescriptions for children struggling in school, as well as for adults seeking to take control of their lives. The marketing effort has relied on studies and testimonials from a select group of doctors who have received massive speaking fees and funding grants from major pharmaceutical companies. We are joined by four guests: Alan Schwarz, an award-winning reporter who wrote the New York Times piece, "The Selling of Attention Deficit Disorder"; Jamison Monroe, a former teenage Adderall addict who now runs Newport Academy, a treatment center for teens suffering from substance abuse and mental health issues; Dr. Gabor Maté, a physician and bestselling author of four books, including "Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It"; and John Edwards, the father of a college student who committed suicide after he was prescribed Adderall and antidepressant medications at the Harvard University Health Services clinic.

 Marilyn Wedge - ADHD is a construct

Since the DSM 3 the "mental illness" - are "social constructions" not true diseases

 Lies, damned lies, and medical science

DH Freedman - The Atlantic, 2010 - polaris.imag.fr

… do and all the health advice we get, Ioannidis may be one of the most influential scientists
alive. Yet for all his … But we expect more of scientists, and especially of medical scientists, given …Cite Cited by 204 Related articles All 12 versionsLies, Damned Lies, and Bioethicists

JJ Paris, BM Cummings - The American Journal of Bioethics, 2021 - Taylor & Francis

… Sissela Bok wrote in the 1999 edition of her text on Lying, “In any situation where a lie is a
possible choice, one must first seek truthful alternatives. Only where a lie is a ‘last resort’ can …Cite Cited by 2 Related articles All 6 versions

Lies, damned lies, and evidence-based medicine

DP Kernick - The Lancet, 1998 - thelancet.com

… But no-one has tipped the glitterati of evidencebased medicine (EBM) the wink—that the
basis of modern science is one of uncertainty; that we live in a chaotic system where …

 

"cosmetic psychopharmacology" - means the mental disease is a shopping experience!! 

"Consumer medicalism" 

 

 Australian doc on the Big Pharma aDHD epidemic

 

Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science David H. Freedman pdf 

 

 David Cohen | Psychiatry’s Scientific Emptiness | Psychology Is Podcast 48

 

Mad Science: Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs

Stuart A. Kirk, ‎Tomi Gomory, ‎David Cohen · 2013

 

 Thomas Insel who is a prime example of an exuberant psychiatrist. He pushed neuroscience and genetics and got papers published at a cost of about $20 billion, and even though this did not result in anything useful for the patients, he has no regrets about NIMH funding all this. Moreover, Insel wrote in his book that “The idea of mental illness as a ‘chemical imbalance’ has now given way to mental illnesses as ‘connectional’ or brain circuit disorders.” This is plain nonsense, with no supporting evidence.

  psychiatry is characterised by delusions. As I have shown
in this book, the psychiatrists’ predominant idiosyncratic beliefs are not shared by people
considered sane - the general public - but the psychiatrists forcefully maintain them, even
when reality, including the most reliable science we have, and rational argument or logic
clearly show that their basic beliefs are wrong.
When people criticise psychiatry, they are often called “anti-psychiatry” or conspiracy
theorists, reactions which seem to have a persecutory delusional element.

 "Delegated Narcissism" - the Psychiatrist shrinks worship the FDA-Big Pharma "captured agency" collusion.  A Shrink can make $1 million a year by cranking out drug prescriptions! Wow. 

David Healy, the psychiatrist from the University of Wales who sued the University of Toronto for $C9.4 million (£4.1m; $US6m; €6.6m), claiming violation of academic freedom and defamation as a scientist and physician, has been named visiting professor in the Canadian university's medical faculty. His supporters regard this as a vindication for Dr Healy.

In September 2000, Dr Healy accepted the post of director of the mood and anxiety disorders programme at the university's affiliated Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, which included a university professorship. After delivering a lecture at the Centre in November 2000, during which he voiced criticisms of psychotropic drugs, the offer was abruptly rescinded. Dr Healy and his supporters believed the rescindment was due to his remarks about the drugs, which included Prozac (fluoxetine), manufactured by Eli Lilly, which donated funds to the centre (BMJ 2001;323:591).

SSRIs causes your genitals to numb and it can remain for the rest of your life!! 

In a letter to the university president, an international group of renowned scientists accused the university of violating academic freedom for fear of losing research funds, saying the decision to rescind Dr Healy's offer "besmirched" the name of the university and "poisoned the reputation" of the centre. It called the affair "an affront to the standards of free speech and academic freedom." Last October, Dr Healy launched a law suit against the university (BMJ 2001;323:770).

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1174757/ 

 https://feelinggood.com/2026/03/09/492-meet-the-fantastic-and-controversial-dr-david-healy/

  Dr. David Healy for some of his highly controversial books, like “The Antidepressant Era,” “Let Them Eat Prozac,” and “Pharmageddon.”  Interview with David Healy

Anti-Depressants are Pro-Suicide Drugs! Dang.  

Weird - Googlebooks never brought those titles up?!

 8% of children treated with pills developed mania or hypomania versus
only 0.2% on placebo.330 A systematic review including all ages also found an 8% rate.331
Fluoxetine is a horrible drug that should never have been approved. But Lilly was in finan-
cial trouble and turned their drug, which they had wanted to shelve, into a blockbuster.
Lilly’s frauds are second to none, but other drug companies also indulged in fraud and
organised crime and the drug regulators were complicit in this.332
David Healy had expected a firestorm when we published our review but there was total
silence. The only person that has cited it in a medical journal is me.333 No one took any
interest in our shocking revelations, which shows how corrupt psychiatry is.
The two prestigious journals that published the two fluoxetine trials are also corrupt. In
August 2023, I wrote to the editors and called for retraction of three fraudulent reports of
placebo-controlled trials of depression drugs in children and adolescents, including a study
of paroxetine (known as GSK study 329).334 Ten people who lost a child or spouse to suicide
as a consequence of being prescribed a depression drug for a non-psychiatric condition -
issues that all of us can experience - were co-signatories.
All three trial reports seriously underreported the suicide risk and provided false claims
that the drugs are effective.
We told the editors of Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
and JAMA Psychiatry (previously Archives of General Psychiatry) that, “By retracting the
fraudulent trial reports and explaining why in accompanying editorials, you will provide a
much-needed service to the scientific community and the world’s citizens, which will reduce
the risk of additional meaningless suicides in children and young people. If you don’t act,
you will not only sully the reputation of your journals. You will also be seen as being com-
plicit in future suicides caused by antidepressants as a direct harm of these drugs.”

 https://www.scientificfreedom.dk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/2024-Gotzsche-Is-psychiatry-a-crime-against-humanity.pdf

Dr. Joseph Biederman, a prominent child psychiatrist at Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital, was the focus of a 2008 congressional investigation for failing to fully disclose millions in funding from pharmaceutical companies that manufactured ADHD medications. [1, 2]

Raymond Dolan et. al. expose the Emptiness of biological mind diseases 

Renowned neuroscientist Raymond Dolan has published multiple highly influential review papers in the prestigious journal Neuron, most notably his 2022 landmark critique on the failures of functional neuroimaging in psychiatry. He also co-authored a foundational 2013 review tracking the computational systems of goals and habits in the brain. [1, 2]

A breakdown of his major Neuron reviews and their core takeaways provides a clear overview of his contributions:

1. Neuroimaging in Psychiatry: "Failing Better" (2022)

Co-authored with Matthew M. Nour and Yunzhe Liu, this highly discussed perspective piece, titled "Functional neuroimaging in psychiatry and the case for failing better," delivered a sobering critique of biological psychiatry. [1]

The Three-Decade Impasse: Despite over 30 years of intense research and more than 16,000 published neuroimaging papers, the field lacks a definitive neurobiological or mechanistic account for any psychiatric condition. [1]
Zero Clinical Utility: The authors note that functional neuroimaging (like fMRI) currently plays no role in clinical decision-making or diagnosis. [1]

As Dolan starkly summarized, “It remains difficult to refute a critique that psychiatry's most fundamental characteristic is its ignorance... while its attempts to lay bare the etiology of its disorders have been a litany of failures.” -- [Mad In America].

The Path Forward: The review calls for a shift away from vague, cross-sectional correlation studies toward a rigorous computational psychiatry approach that tracks how mathematical models of the brain change during tasks. []

The Investigation and Findings

Undisclosed Payments: A 2008 Senate probe led by Senator Charles Grassley revealed that Dr. Biederman received at least $1.6 million in consulting and speaking fees from drug makers

Ghostwriting of Articles: Pharmaceutical companies hire medical communication firms to draft research articles or reviews, and then get prominent academics or clinicians to put their names on the papers as the sole or primary authors, a practice known as ghostwriting. The named authors often have little to no involvement in the actual research or writing.

Hiding or Misrepresenting Data: Drug companies have concealed unfavorable data or miscoded raw data on drug risks, such as the link between antidepressants and suicidal acts. This manipulation can make a drug appear safer or more effective than it actually is.

Biased Clinical Trial Design: Healy notes instances where clinical trials are designed with “tricks,” such as using inadequate or excessive doses of comparison medications to make the company’s own drug look superior.

Marketing-Driven Education: A large portion of continuing medical education (CME) classes for doctors are sponsored by industry. Healy argues this leads to a bias in the information presented to doctors, with an emphasis on the benefits of brand-name drugs rather than an objective assessment of all treatment options.

Gifts and Payments to Physicians: Drug companies spend billions annually on marketing directed at doctors, including free samples, sales visits, and small non-educational gifts or lunches. Healy points out that while many doctors believe these gifts don’t affect their own prescribing, studies show they influence prescribing patterns and create subtle biases.

Industry Influence on Academia: Healy’s own experience with a job offer being rescinded at the University of Toronto, which had received a large donation from a drug company (Eli Lilly), is a prominent case he uses to illustrate how industry funding can infringe upon academic freedom and stifle critical research.

“Disease Mongering”: Healy argues that the pharmaceutical industry often engages in “disease mongering,” marketing conditions to the public and physicians to create a market for their products rather than simply addressing genuine medical needs. 

 

 Open Payments website - HAVE to reveal how much money doctors have received from industry