#263 – John Abramson: Big Pharma
Lex Fridman Podcast11 Helmi 2022

#263 – John Abramson: Big Pharma

John Abramson is faculty at Harvard Medical School and a family physician for over two decades. He’s the author of the new book Sickening about how big pharma broke American healthcare and how we can fix it. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS:
John’s Website: https://hcp.hms.harvard.edu/people/john-david-abramson
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Overdosed America (book): https://amzn.to/3LmrWKn

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OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(14:29) – Biggest problem with big pharma
(23:30) – Advertising
(43:22) – Corruption
(59:38) – Pfizer vaccine data
(1:08:30) – Vaccine profits
(1:19:25) – Censorship
(1:40:11) – FDA
(1:48:45) – NIH
(1:57:42) – Live longer
(2:01:13) – Medications
(2:09:37) – Doctors
(2:13:44) – Advice for young people
(2:14:40) – Big pharma’s influence
(2:19:24) – Mortality
(2:21:15) – Meaning of life

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