Downstream: Big Pharma’s Secrets w/ Nick Dearden

Downstream: Big Pharma’s Secrets w/ Nick Dearden

Author: Novara Media September 25, 2023 Duration: 1:19:04

Nick Dearden has been an economic justice campaigner for over 20 years, and his attention was on the pharmaceutical industry when Covid-19 hit. But as the world began to sing the praises of pharmaceutical companies, Nick saw an unprecedented PR coup. Giant corporations capitalised on the crisis, tightening their stranglehold over the health of the poor.

Nick sat down with Aaron Bastani to explain how ‘Big Pharma’ is run like a hedge fund, why the contracts between the government and Pfizer were redacted, and who’s scrambling to patent magic mushrooms.

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