WHO influenza advisers are paid by the pharmaceutical industry

Added 27.11.2009

You may know the World Health Organization (WHO) as the leading health authority within the United Nations (UN) system. WHO experts "produce health guidelines and help countries to address public health issues." One of the organisation's many core functions is to tackle global health problems and improve people's well being."

No doubt, like the majority of us, you have never questioned what the WHO says or does, or its intentions. But the question is: can the WHO and other similar organisations really be trusted to safeguard our health? We'll let you be the judge of that.

Several WHO H1N1 advisers are paid by the pharmaceutical industry

Influenza vaccine producers have a lot to gain when an illness their vaccine is purported to prevent or treat goes pandemic. And gain is exactly what the pharmaceutical industry did - over 50 billion dollars - when they paid off WHO advisers to push the H1N1 flu to a pandemic status this past June. Not surprisingly, the only thing that can help stop this "pandemic," they say is mass vaccination. The problem is many UN member countries have contracts with pharmaceutical companies and are forced to buy vaccines when a pandemic is declared. But is the H1N1 flu really a pandemic? Many scientists say no and that a pandemic was declared for the sole benefit of the pharmaceutical industry.

Peter Gøtchze, director of the Cochrane Centre (an independent scientiic network) in Denmark says, "It's totally unacceptable. You cannot give impartial advice if you are on the payroll of the firms who benefit from your advice." Gøtchze believes we should take the WHO's recommendations with a grain of salt. "It is very sad, but in general, we cannot trust the World Health Organization's recommendations; they must be scrutinised first."

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Dr. Bo Nielsen's comments:

There is no doubt that the WHO is strongly infiltrated; some even claim that the WHO is run by the pharmaceutical industry. There is no doubt that most national health authorities are strongly influenced by the pharmaceutical industry and their financial interests. There is no doubt that most medical doctors and the health care system are strongly influenced by the marketing efforts of the pharmaceutical industry. A survey done by the Ministry of Health in Sweden concludes that 96 percent of all health related information received by medical doctors is influenced, directly or indirectly, by the pharmaceutical industry. The new EU legislation that aims at restricting the use of natural nutritional supplements - using all kinds of strange excuses - is strongly influenced by the pharmaceutical industry. The pharmaceutical industry seems to fear that more and more people prefer natural, side effect-free solutions instead of synthetic drugs. This is one reason why they put pressure on the EU through their 300 plus lobbyists in the EU government. The fact that this industry and their drugs get away with being the number 4 killer in the Western world is an indication of how powerful this industry really is. A few years ago a new type of pain killer actually killed 60,000 people due to side effects - more than all the Americans killed during the Vietnam War. The worst thing is that the executives and head researchers knew all about these side effects but "forgot" to show them to the FDA when the drug was being approved.

The main problem is that only very few politicians and professionals within the health care system seem to care about the negative health consequences of letting pharmaceutical executives have such an enormous, almost unlimited power that allows them to pursue profit, often without any concerns about the health and life of end users.