"Pfizer's CEO said that anyone refusing to take the vaccine will become the weak link that will allow the virus to replicate & that ‘we will develop our vaccine using the highest ethical standards’. So let’s have a look at Pfizer’s ethical standards." 1/n https://architectsforsocialhousing.co.uk/2020/12/09/bowling-for-pfizer-whos-behind-the-biontech-vaccine/

"Pfizer has a long history of paying out vast sums in out-of-court settlements to avoid not only claims in civil cases but prosecution on criminal charges resulting from the fraudulent promotion, unapproved prescription and injury, including death, from use of their products" 2/n

"In 1992, Pfizer agreed to pay between $165 million and $215 million to settle lawsuits arising from the fracturing of the Bjork-Shiley Convexo-Concave heart valve, which by 2012 has resulted in 663 deaths." 3/n

"In 1996, Pfizer conducted an unapproved clinical trial on 200 Nigerian children with its experimental anti-meningitis drug, Trovafloxacin...which led to the death of 11 children from kidney failure...this was the basis to the John Le Carré book & film, The Constant Gardener" 4/n

"In 2004, Pfizer’s subsidiary, Warner-Lambert, was fined $430 million to resolve criminal charges & civil liabilities for the fraudulent promotion of its epilepsy drug, Neurontin, paying and bribing doctors to prescribe it for uses not approved by the FDA." 5/n

"In 2009, Pfizer set a record for the largest health care fraud settlement & the largest criminal fine of any kind, paying $2.3 billion to avoid criminal & civil liability for fraudulently marketing its anti-inflammatory drug, Bextra, which had been refused approval by FDA." 6/n

Also In 2009, "Pfizer paid $750 million to settle 35,000 claims that its diabetes drug, Rezulin, was responsible for 63 deaths & dozens of liver failures. In 1999, a senior epidemiologist at the FDA warned that Rezulin was ‘one of the most dangerous drugs on the market’. 7/n

"In 2010, Pfizer was ordered to pay $142.1 million in damages for violating a federal anti-racketeering law by its fraudulent sale and marketing of Neurontin for uses not approved by the FDA, including for migraines and bi-polar disorder." 8/n

"In 2010, Pfizer admitted that, in the last 6 months of 2009 alone, it had paid $20 million to 4,500 doctors in the US for consulting and speaking on its behalf, and $15.3 million to 250 academic medical centres for clinical trials." 9/n

"In 2012, Pfizer paid $45 million to settle charges of bribing doctors and other health-care professionals employed by foreign governments in order to win business." 10/n

"By 2012, Pfizer had paid $1.226 billion to settle claims by nearly 10,000 women that its hormone replacement therapy drug, Prempro, caused breast cancer." 11/n

"In 2013, Pfizer agreed to pay $55 million to settle criminal charges of failing to warn patients and doctors about the risks of kidney disease, kidney injury, kidney failure and acute interstitial nephritis caused by its proton pump inhibitor, Protonix." 12/n

"In 2014, Pfizer paid a further $325 million to settle a lawsuit brought by health-care benefit providers who claimed the company marketed its epilepsy drug, Neurontin, for purposes unapproved by the FDA." 13/n

"In 2014, Pfizer paid $35 million to settle a law suit accusing its subsidiary of promoting the kidney transplant drug, Rapamune, for unapproved uses, including bribing doctors to prescribe it to patients." 14/n

"In 2016, Pfizer was fined a record £84.2 million for overcharging the NHS for its rebranded & deregulated anti-epilepsy drug, Phenytoin, by 2,600% (from £2.83 to £67.50 a capsule), increasing the cost to UK taxpayers from £2 million in 2012 to about £50 million in 2013." 15/n

"In May 2018, Pfizer still had 6,000 lawsuits pending against claims that its testosterone replacement therapy products cause strokes, heart attacks, pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis, and were fraudulently marketed at healthy men for uses not approved by the FDA." 16/n

"Given this record of ongoing corruption and malpractice from which only its enormous profits have saved it from criminal prosecution, it seems extraordinary that Pfizer is still permitted to manufacture and sell any health care products." 17/n