By thedesertreview.com - October 1, 2021
In 1994, the CEOs of the seven largest American tobacco companies testified before Congress and stated under oath that nicotine was not addictive.
Today, we know they lied to us because it was in their financial interests. They conducted a classic gaslight. Gaslighting is a form of deceit used by habitual or pathological liars. They will often lie to your face and never back down even when confronted with proof of their deception.
The Congressional hearings were held by Chairman Henry Waxman in 1994 on television in full public view. Tobacco executives were called upon to answer publicly for the poisoning and killing of millions of Americans with cigarettes.
When Representative Ron Wyden questioned James Johnston, the Chairman, and CEO of R.J. Reynolds, in 1994, he got the answer that flew in the face of known science and reality:
“Cigarettes and nicotine clearly do not meet the classic definitions of addiction…”
However, the world would see through this gaslight. R.J. Reynolds would be one of the tobacco companies called upon to pay damages in a $206 billion Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement.
Nonetheless, despite this, R.J. Reynolds has continued to profit and only grow larger. It purchased Lorillard Tobacco for $27 billion in 2014 and paid $49 billion to merge with British America Tobacco in 2017.
Americans know that cigarettes cause cancer, heart disease, stroke, emphysema, and COPD. In addition, they cause seven out of every ten cases of lung cancer. And cigarette smoking is highly addictive.
But currently, we are witnessing an even greater gaslight than from the cigarette executives. We see in 2021 gaslighting about vaccines, Ivermectin, and public health. We are lied to daily by corporate interests who seek to protect a much greater industry than tobacco.
Unlike tobacco, which was plastered all over the television with Joe Camel and the Marlboro Man, today we are bombarded with video clips of overflowing hospitals and dying patients. Rather than tobacco’s message of glamor, we relentlessly hear Big Pharma’s marketing message of doom. First, this was rehearsed with Ebola, later with Zika, and now Big Pharma has perfected it with COVID-19.
The public may be aware that the Pharmaceutical companies profit handsomely from new drugs and that there is a very cozy and cooperative relationship between FDA, NIH, and Big Pharma. Still, almost no one realizes they are gaslit daily with a coordinated marketing campaign.
Most Americans think that morality and ethics would suspend the profit motive just this once for the sake of saving the world from COVID-19. But, unfortunately, many continue to believe the vaccines are “free” and being offered as a public service out of the goodness of Pfizer’s and Moderna’s hearts, with Dr. Fauci being the fatherly voice of wisdom helping steer us through this deadly but unplanned pandemic.
“He only wants the very best that science can offer the human race regardless of any profit motive. In short, Dr. Fauci is like us, a man with a family and loved ones; he only wants a swift end to this pandemic with whatever treatment works the best and quickest.”
Nothing could be further from the truth.
What most do not understand is how Dr. Fauci can and does profit directly from the vaccines. The Bayh-Dole Act – a law passed in 1980 – allows scientists involved in developing a drug to SHARE IN THE ROYALTIES on sales of the drug.
This fact was publicly disclosed in 2005 when Dr. Fauci was involved in an Interleukin trial gone wrong. Patients were getting sick and dying of toxicity and complaining that Dr. Fauci had failed to disclose he had a financial interest in the drug. Dr. Fauci, along with an NIH physician, Joseph Kovacs, was a co-developer of Interleukin-2. Under Bayh-Dole, this was one of the many patents from which Dr. Fauci could derive drug royalties.
The test subjects might have felt differently about their decision to enroll in the trial had Dr. Fauci informed them he would benefit with a portion of the $8.9 million in royalties.
Today, it is unknown exactly how many patents in which Dr. Fauci has a direct or indirect financial interest. But, according to David E. Martin, PhD, a Batten Fellow at the University of Virginia and an expert on Intellectual Property rights (patents), the answer could be as high as 3,500.
Dr. Martin has testified before Congress. He founded M-CAM, the largest underwriter of Intellectual Property globally, and he is as credible an expert as you will find.
As you review the 100+ patents created on the coronavirus, you are struck by the timeline. So many of these patents were obtained years, even decades before the onset of COVID-19. You cannot help but realize, as I did, that this was all manufactured, and we have all been deceived. This pandemic is all about Big Pharma and greed. We are victims of gaslighting by the best in the business.
They make the tobacco CEOs look like amateurs . . .
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