AIDS activists in NEP

[Guest]

As expected, they turned up last night. Photo and details on my blog here: http://www4.nanaplaza.com/blog/index.php?op=Default&postCategoryId=5&blogId=5

[thamachat]

I can't find the exact reference, but in the past it's been revealed that Aids activists who picket drug companies calling for lower prices have been actually paid to do so by the drug companies they are picketing. Seems the drug companies PR folks stage big public demonstrations, then are seen magnanimously lowering their prices for the TV cameras.

 

From: http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/data/cfgeneva.htm

These ''International AIDS Conferences'' are really just microcosms of the AIDS industry itself. They are funded by, driven by, and controlled by the pharmaceutical industry. In Geneva this year, there were pharmaceutical ads plastered right onto the luggage-conveyor belts at the airport.

 

At every conference, the leading pharmaceutical giants take up an entire stadium-sized floor with their structures -- mini-villages that they build, complete with huge video screens, towering pillars, interactive displays and all kinds of goodies, including CDs, videos, carry bags, condoms, ice cream, chocolates and whatever else they can imagine will lure conference delegates into their booths.

 

Glaxo-Wellcome, maker of the now-fallen former pinnacle AIDS drug AZT, routinely pays for the first-class travel and hotel accommodations of scores of so-called activists, mostly from ACT UP. Most of the doctors present are there courtesy of the pharmaceutical industry, and in addition to their travel expenses and per diems, they are invited to a constant series of lavish lunches and dinners. Many of the doctors who write for medical journals about the effects of these AIDS drugs are paid consultants to the drug companies. It is, in short, a festival of sophisticated whoredom.

 

From: http://www.sumeria.net/aids/john-l/berlin.html

Later on the 6th, Act Up held a press conference, attended by only a handful of media people. Most of the 300 Act Up members had the 950 DM entrance fee waived by the organizers. Many of them had travelled to Berlin, staying in luxurious hotels with swimming pools, with all expenses paid by Wellcome Pharmaceuticals, the manufacturer of AZT. In response to a journalist's question, the Act Up representative from London admitted that his group had taken 50,000 pounds from Wellcome, adding: "But that was only to bring us to the conference!" Representatives from TAG (New York) and several other Act Up groups admitted that they also had taken money from Wellcome.

[chuckwoww]

That is a very interesting post. I had no idea it worked that way but I suppose I should have figured it out. Those conferences cost big bucks. The ethics or non-ethics of it all are mind boggling. Thanks.

[thamachat]

You're welcome.

[pattaya127]

There was avery interesting article in the NY Times today, about the make-up of these twice yearly AIDS conferences. Very critical indeed, about that scourge of our times, ie. "consultants", looking for a well-paid job or assignment. Big bucks indeed.

[Crash999]

Err... what benefit would the drug companies gain by paying people to ask them to lower their prices?

 

Had a read through that virusmyth site- it's a bunch of crap from the 'AIDS doesn't exist' morons.

[Old Hippie]

Saw a movie called "The Band Played on" about this sort of crap. No doubt AIDS exists to what extent it can spread and how/among who etc is a big issue, as all sides have made it a political/economic issue. No doubt as long as money can be made, the debate will continue.

[pattaya127]

Err... what benefit would the drug companies gain by paying people to ask them to lower their prices?

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What was pointed out was the AIDS forum were a big job fair, that's all.