Posted on 12/23/2009 2:14:36 PM PST by opentalk
You've heard it before, how the pharmaceutical industry has a giant "revolving door" through which corporations and government agencies frequently exchange key employees. That reality was driven home in a huge way today when news broke that Dr. Julie Gerberding, who headed the CDC from 2002 through 2009, landed a top job with Merck, one of the largest drug companies in the world. Her job there? She's the new president of the vaccine division.
How convenient. That means the former head of the CDC was very likely cultivating a relationship with Merck all these years, and now comes the big payoff: Heading up a $5 billion division that sells cervical cancer vaccines (like Gardasil), chickenpox vaccines and of course H1N1 swine flu vaccines, too.
So what's the problem with all this? The problem is that private industry and government health offices such as the CDC or FDA should never be so cozy. When they are, it creates an environment of collusion between Big Government and Big Pharma. We've already seen this with the government-led push for swine flu vaccines that are manufactured (and sold) by drug companies like Merck.
You might even say that the CDC already functions as the marketing division of the pharmaceutical industry. It was the CDC that pushed so hard for swine flu vaccines, even amid the obvious realization that swine flu was no more dangerous than seasonal flu. To this day, the CDC still hasn't bothered to recommend vitamin D for the prevention of either seasonal flu or swine flu. It remains heavily invested in the lucrative vaccine approach -- an approach that just happens to financially benefit the very corporations that are hiring ex-CDC employees like Dr. Gerberding.
How to triple your salary by selling out to industry Getting a job offer from Big Pharma, by the way, is one of the most-desired career paths for many CDC employees (and FDA workers, for that matter). It's easy to accomplish it, too: Just operate in your government position as if you were a Big Pharma lackey. If you produce enough good business for the drug industry, sooner or later they'll offer you a lucrative position that doubles or triples your government salary (or even better).
Now, I don't want to lump all CDC employees in this same pathetic group, because there are indeed a great many bright, honest scientists working at the CDC who do excellent work tracking pandemics and trying to save lives. They are overshadowed, however, by those ambitious profit seekers who see their CDC job as merely a stepping stone for a far better-paying job at a major drug companies. And by any measure, Dr. Gerberding just cashed in big.
Her actual salary at Merck hasn't been publicly released yet, but given that she's heading up a $5 billion vaccine industry, it's probably not chump change. I'd bet she's now making at least ten times the salary of the President of the United States (and probably a lot more).
You are all going to die. Stay calm. Here is the vaccine...
I fail to see much difference between this CDC story and this scandal-
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0105/010505g1.htm
pig flu panic didn’t work out for you did it ..
I have had the privilege of meeting and working with Dr Julie Gerberding. She did an excellent job as head of the CDC. She served this country well in that office.
Other CDC employees have left the public sector and worked in the public arena. Are you saying that someone who works in the public sector may never work again in the private? Well that would discourage anyone with practical work experience from serving their government wouldn’t it?
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Former head of CDC lands lucrative job as president of Merck vaccine division
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How sad.
Maybe 20 years ago, Merck was a cutting-edge pharmaceutical company,
full of innovation and run by great research scientists and business-types
that understood medicine.
I think of Merck whenever I watch “Forbes on Fox” on Saturdays.
And I almost bleed from my ears and eyes after seeing staff members
of Forbes that sound more radical than the Bolsheviks.
And think to myself “Once upon a time Merck and Forbes wasn’t full
of corrupt Democrats/Socialists/Bureaucrats.”
The lady in the referenced story got the job in exchange for sending her future employer business....
The ex-CDC person has not been accused of this.
And where do you expect her to go? TO work for a day care center? Maybe be a pilot or race car driver?
People generally get jobs in fields where they have experience. There is lots of turn over at the CDC.
My guess is what ever jobs you have had were based on you work experience.
And there is nothing wrong with someone making BIG, BIG money...to be anti that is to be socialist or communist or else jealous and envious....
Everyone would like to make plenty of money and would be happy to jump at a job to do so....
The Demorats make big money when they can......please, let’s not jump on this liberal bandwagon that making money is bad....if you want to continue down this road: please expound on all the liberals who are rich and the Demo Senators and Congresspeople who have relatives making big bucks because of them...
What kind of job would you expect her to take? Flipping burgers at McDonalds?
But the government cannot possible be concerned about fixing health care without speaking to the issue of toxins and nutrition, which is the realm of the FDA, which is outright killing people with their deep capture by the sickness treatment industry.
This story right here about the head of the FDA saying mercury in your mouth is safe and owning stock in the largest amalgam corporation while having been a board member should tell everyone, the Evil Overseers of government and their Evil Overlords want us sick.
FDA’s Mercury Ruling Defies ALL Scientific Reasoning
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/08/22/FDA-has-the-Audacity-to-Claim-Mercury-is-Completely-Harmless.aspx
And then we had the UN control over the world by reason of a Level 6 pandemic where forced jabbing of untested vaccines with mercury and squalene got hyped but all the talk of the importance of Vitamin D was silenced. Here is a good Mercola link on Vitamin D= http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/10/10/Vitamin-D-Experts-Reveal-the-Truth.aspx
Of course if you read NaturalNews, you already know from Mike Adams that the FDA is a mass murdering institution run by criminals and that the whole pill industry is bogus.
On with the plutonomy and serfdom.
Have a nice treason.
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