Safe and Effective? Maybe Not By Brian Simpson

I saw this post from Strangesounds.substack.com, reporting on the deaths from the Big pHarma drug, Vioxx, a painkiller that was used to treat arthritis pain. The drug was recalled, but may have killed up to half a million people, according to some reports. What is significant is that the drug prior to recall was promoted as “safe and effective,” just as the Covid vaxxes were. Safe and effective, right up until it is not! In fact, there is no case of drugs not being promoted in this way, even the over 1,000 drugs that have been recalled in the last decade. A healthy caution is very much needed regarding everything Big Pharma says and does.   

https://strangesounds.substack.com/p/just-trust-the-science-blindly-because

“The phrase “safe and effective” was not robbed of its credibility when the COVID-19 vaccines caused adverse events and deaths that embodied its antithesis. The duplicitous history of “safe and effective”, a phrase that has essentially become synonymous with another insidious slogan, “FDA approved”, goes back decades.

On average, the FDA has recalled 1,279 drugs per year since 2012. Vioxx, a painkiller that was often prescribed to treat arthritis pain, is one of the most notorious drugs recalled by the FDA.

Of course, Vioxx was promoted to the public as safe and effective with tragic consequences. In 2009, emails revealed that Merck had created a "hit list" consisting of Doctors who warned about the dangers of the drug Vioxx. These doctors, scientists and medical professionals were labeled as "fringe", "crazy", "quacks" and "conspiracy theorists"...

Despite the relentless attacks, they were finally proven correct. Vioxx killed half a million. The facts are grim…

This is exactly what we lived during the Corona plandemic… The FDA and CDC’s continued promotion of COVID-19 vaccines, the attacks against free speech, free will and propaganda detractors, destruction of lives, the bans on alternative medication as well as the utterly irrational trust placed in Big Pharma when their track record provides endless reasons not to.”

https://affiliates.legalexaminer.com/health/vioxx-killed-half-a-million-the-facts-are-grim/

“It’s looking more and more likely that the Merck painkiller Vioxx, the blockbuster drug suspected of having caused more than 55,000 deaths from stroke and heart attack before being withdrawn from the market in 2004, actually killed many more people than we previously thought.

While conducting research on America’s media coverage of the Vioxx scandal, publisher of The American Conservative Ron Unz noticed some figures that seem to have escaped almost everyone else’s attention. The year Vioxx was introduced, 1999, showed the largest recent rise in American death rates. The year after Vioxx was pulled from the market, American death rates underwent a substantial and completely unexpected decline.

"We find the largest rise in American mortality rates occurred in 1999, the year Vioxx was introduced, while the largest drop occurred in 2004, the year it was withdrawn," says Unz. "Vioxx was almost entirely marketed to the elderly, and these substantial changes in the national death-rate were completely concentrated within the 65-plus population.

"The FDA studies had proven that use of Vioxx led to deaths from cardiovascular diseases such as heart attacks and strokes, and these were exactly the factors driving the changes in national mortality rates."…

This drop corresponds to roughly 100,000 fewer deaths per year. The age-adjusted decline in death rates was considerably greater. –The Week

The numbers suggest that Vioxx may have caused more than 500,000 premature deaths. This is so far beyond the 3,468 that were named in Merck’s class action settlement for $4.85 billion in 2007 that it boggles the mind. Further investigation is clearly needed to determine just what effect Vioxx had on the almost uniquely elderly population that took it. And Merck needs to be held accountable for the colossal harms it has caused.