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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

Well, the problem could be fixed through regulation, you know, the problems, but the pharmaceutical industry is, is I mean, I don't want to say, because this is going to seem extreme, that a criminal enterprise, but if you look at the history, that is an applicable characterization.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

Well, the problem could be fixed through regulation, you know, the problems, but the pharmaceutical industry is, is I mean, I don't want to say, because this is going to seem extreme, that a criminal enterprise, but if you look at the history, that is an applicable characterization.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

For example, the four biggest vaccine makers, Sanofi, Merck, Pfizer, and Glaxo, four companies that make all of the 72 vaccines that are now effectively mandated for American children. Collectively, those companies have paid $35 billion in criminal penalties and damages in the last decade. And I think since 2000, about $79 billion. So these are the most corrupt companies in the world.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

For example, the four biggest vaccine makers, Sanofi, Merck, Pfizer, and Glaxo, four companies that make all of the 72 vaccines that are now effectively mandated for American children. Collectively, those companies have paid $35 billion in criminal penalties and damages in the last decade. And I think since 2000, about $79 billion. So these are the most corrupt companies in the world.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

For example, the four biggest vaccine makers, Sanofi, Merck, Pfizer, and Glaxo, four companies that make all of the 72 vaccines that are now effectively mandated for American children. Collectively, those companies have paid $35 billion in criminal penalties and damages in the last decade. And I think since 2000, about $79 billion. So these are the most corrupt companies in the world.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And the problem is that they're serial felons. They do this again and again and again. So They did Vioxx, you know, Merck did Vioxx, which Vioxx, you know, they killed people by falsifying science. And they did it. They lied to the public. They said this is a headache medicine and an arthritis painkiller. But they didn't tell people that it also gave you heart attacks.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And the problem is that they're serial felons. They do this again and again and again. So They did Vioxx, you know, Merck did Vioxx, which Vioxx, you know, they killed people by falsifying science. And they did it. They lied to the public. They said this is a headache medicine and an arthritis painkiller. But they didn't tell people that it also gave you heart attacks.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And the problem is that they're serial felons. They do this again and again and again. So They did Vioxx, you know, Merck did Vioxx, which Vioxx, you know, they killed people by falsifying science. And they did it. They lied to the public. They said this is a headache medicine and an arthritis painkiller. But they didn't tell people that it also gave you heart attacks.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And they knew, you know, we found when we sued them, You know, the memos from their bean counters saying we're going to kill this many people, but we're still going to make money. So they make those calculations, and those calculations are made very, very regularly. And then, you know, when they get caught, they pay a penalty. And I think they paid about $7 billion for Vioxx.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And they knew, you know, we found when we sued them, You know, the memos from their bean counters saying we're going to kill this many people, but we're still going to make money. So they make those calculations, and those calculations are made very, very regularly. And then, you know, when they get caught, they pay a penalty. And I think they paid about $7 billion for Vioxx.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And they knew, you know, we found when we sued them, You know, the memos from their bean counters saying we're going to kill this many people, but we're still going to make money. So they make those calculations, and those calculations are made very, very regularly. And then, you know, when they get caught, they pay a penalty. And I think they paid about $7 billion for Vioxx.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

But then they went right back that same year that they paid that penalty. They went back and did the same thing again with Gardasil and with a whole lot of other drugs. So the way that this system is set up, the way that it's sold to doctors, the way that nobody ever goes to jail. So there's really no penalty that it all becomes part of the cost of doing business.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

But then they went right back that same year that they paid that penalty. They went back and did the same thing again with Gardasil and with a whole lot of other drugs. So the way that this system is set up, the way that it's sold to doctors, the way that nobody ever goes to jail. So there's really no penalty that it all becomes part of the cost of doing business.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

But then they went right back that same year that they paid that penalty. They went back and did the same thing again with Gardasil and with a whole lot of other drugs. So the way that this system is set up, the way that it's sold to doctors, the way that nobody ever goes to jail. So there's really no penalty that it all becomes part of the cost of doing business.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And, you know, you can see other businesses that if they're not, if they don't, if there's no penalty, if there's no real, I mean, look, these are the companies that gave us the opioid epidemic, right? So They knew what was going to happen. And you go and see, there's a documentary, I forget what the name of it is, but it shows exactly what happened. And they corrupted FDA.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And, you know, you can see other businesses that if they're not, if they don't, if there's no penalty, if there's no real, I mean, look, these are the companies that gave us the opioid epidemic, right? So They knew what was going to happen. And you go and see, there's a documentary, I forget what the name of it is, but it shows exactly what happened. And they corrupted FDA.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And, you know, you can see other businesses that if they're not, if they don't, if there's no penalty, if there's no real, I mean, look, these are the companies that gave us the opioid epidemic, right? So They knew what was going to happen. And you go and see, there's a documentary, I forget what the name of it is, but it shows exactly what happened. And they corrupted FDA.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

They knew that oxycodone was addictive. They got FDA to tell doctors that it wasn't addictive. They pressured FDA to lie, and they got their way. And so far, they led this year. They got a whole generation addicted to oxycodone, and now when they got caught, we made it harder to get oxycodone, and now all those addicted kids are going to fentanyl and dying. And this year, it killed 106,000 kids.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

They knew that oxycodone was addictive. They got FDA to tell doctors that it wasn't addictive. They pressured FDA to lie, and they got their way. And so far, they led this year. They got a whole generation addicted to oxycodone, and now when they got caught, we made it harder to get oxycodone, and now all those addicted kids are going to fentanyl and dying. And this year, it killed 106,000 kids.

6883.306 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

They knew that oxycodone was addictive. They got FDA to tell doctors that it wasn't addictive. They pressured FDA to lie, and they got their way. And so far, they led this year. They got a whole generation addicted to oxycodone, and now when they got caught, we made it harder to get oxycodone, and now all those addicted kids are going to fentanyl and dying. And this year, it killed 106,000 kids.

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