The Australian Dissent Doctor Hit List: “Seek Them 0ut and Destroy Them Where They Live” By Brian Simpson

I have been an anti-vaxxer all of my life, not because, in the early years I had an intellectual grasp of things, but because I always preferred natural immunity; mum took me to a "chicken pox party" to make sure I got the childhood disease early, which can be deadly in adulthood. Also, I have a fear of needles and injections, and avoid them like the plague. It was under the influence of Mrs West, fellow health blogger here, my senior by many years, if not decades, who alerted me to the vaccine critique literature. Then Covid occurred, and the pieces of the puzzle came together.

One story that I explored in my great awakening was the Merck company's "seek out and destroy" campaign against Australian doctors who expressed concern that the company's drug Vioxx seemed to be causing heart attacks and strokes. "Merck made a "hit list" of doctors who criticized Vioxx, according to testimony in a Vioxx class action case in Australia. The list, emailed between Merck employees, contained doctors' names with the labels "neutralise," "neutralised" or "discredit" next to them.

According to The Australian, Merck emails from 1999 showed company execs complaining about doctors who disliked using Vioxx." One email put it: "We may need to seek them out and destroy them where they live …"

However, the company was found guilty of knowingly concealing data about the elevated risk of stroke and heart attack from Vioxx. It agreed to pay a class action settlement to stroke and heart attack victims of $4.85 billion. There are other lawsuits which Big Pharma has lost as well, with large payouts. I would propose that given this background, there should have been public scrutiny of any novel, untested vax, such as the Covid mRNA one. There should have been no emergency release, as was done by Trump under Operation Warp Speed. At warp speed, everything gets "warped," and evidence is unclear. Therefore, methodologically, we should be sceptical of any medicine until proven to be safe; guilty until proven innocent should be the public health principle.

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"This evening I pondered the news of Caroline Kennedy's hit letter against her cousin, RFK, Jr., and the fact that she was the Biden Administration's Ambassador to Australia, and the fact that she has served as a powerful ambassador for Merck's Gardasil vaccine.

The association of Australia and Merck reminded me of the company's "seek out and destroy" campaign against Australian doctors who expressed concern that the company's blockbuster Vioxx seemed to be causing heart attacks and strokes. As was reported by CBS in May 2009:

Merck made a "hit list" of doctors who criticized Vioxx, according to testimony in a Vioxx class action case in Australia. The list, emailed between Merck employees, contained doctors' names with the labels "neutralise," "neutralised" or "discredit" next to them.

According to The Australian, Merck emails from 1999 showed company execs complaining about doctors who disliked using Vioxx. One email said:

"We may need to seek them out and destroy them where they live …"

During this same period in the United States, Merck was accused of concealing negative results of clinical Vioxx trials from the FDA and paying reputable doctors to put their names on research they did not conduct or write up. The company also published a fake journal, paying Elsevier to create a phony publication to serve as a marketing tool titled the Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine.

Ultimately the company was found guilty of knowingly concealing data about the elevated risk of stroke and heart attack from Vioxx and agreed to pay a class action settlement to stroke and heart attack victims totalling $4.85 billion.

I wonder if the nice folks at Merck would ever yield to the temptation to overstate the benefits of the HPV vaccine and downplay its risks, as some plaintiffs have alleged? I also wonder if the company's PR department might yield to the temptation to smear RFK, Jr. during his Senate confirmation process?

Or am I just being cynical?"

On these life and death medical issues, one cannot be cynical enough.