“follow the science” = follow the money.
from The Vigilant Fox
Award-winning investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson is blowing the whistle on how pharmaceutical companies slowly took control of the media—beginning around 2006. According to Attkisson, this shift didn’t happen overnight, but looking back, she says the warning signs were there.
In the early 2000s, mainstream media platforms like The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Morning Joe with Joe Scarborough gave airtime to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to discuss vaccine safety. Notably, Scarborough even shared that his own son had suffered a vaccine injury. Even Atkission herself was able to do reports on the flu vaccine’s abysmal efficacy.
But soon after, that kind of coverage disappeared. “And then all of a sudden, it just all went away,” Jimmy Dore noted.
So what happened?
Attkisson admitted that, at the time, she didn’t fully understand what was happening behind the scenes. It wasn’t until later that the bigger picture came into focus. The pharmaceutical industry, she realized, had started forming direct partnerships with major media companies—including CBS News, where she worked.
At the corporate level, media companies and pharma giants were joining forces, even lobbying Congress together to loosen long-standing restrictions on pharmaceutical advertising.