"a photo of GlaxoSmithKline's Head of European Clinical Psychiatry, Alastair Benbow and the Pope. The photo has not been doctored, Benbow did actually meet the Pope. In Benbow's own words:..."Bob Fiddaman @SEROXAT SUFFERERS - STAND UP AND BE COUNTED recently posted this photo above on his blog as a satire post ""you create the caption". He has since removed the post for understandable reasons.
Caption entry #1:
I, on the other hand would invite readers to make their own caption for the photo and post them here in the comment section. Interesting that this photo would come to light soon after my last post God speaks out to Big Pharma - "Let My Children Go".
Let me add a little Background information below related to Fid's dealings with GSK & their giant intimidation machine.
Here’s what Phil Dawdy award winning journalist at Furious Seasons has to say on the matter:
I learned yesterday that attorneys representing GlaxoSmithKline in the UK had sent a letter to Bob Fiddaman, who writes the Seroxat Sufferers blog. Seroxat is Paxil’s brand name in the UK. As a result of the letter, Fiddy felt compelled to remove a video he created and posted to his website in February. It’s not clear to me what specific legal action the lawyers threatened.
I linked to the video when it was originally posted in February since I felt it got at some of the issues that had just been aired in the British and American press concerning accusations that GSK had hidden suicidality data connected with the use of Paxil. The person making that accusation was none other than Harvard clinical psychiatry professor Joseph Glenmullen who had reviewed clinical trials data in connection with a California lawsuit. Fiddy’s video presented statements made by Alistair Benbow, a GSK UK official and medical doctor, concerning the drug’s suicidality profile and contrasted them with statements in the British press about Seroxat’s suicidality profile as well as interspersing all of that with information about select patients who had experienced some of the drug’s rotten side effects. There was even background music.
Fiddy, in essence, posed the question of whether Benbow was a liar.
The whole thing seemed innocent enough since Fiddy was working with known facts and seemed to be presenting them in a reasonable fashion. But GSK’s attorneys, apparently writing to Fiddy on behalf of Benbow, objected to the fact that Fiddy had employed GSK’s logo in his video. What’s more, the video was posted to YouTube and in the comments section someone asked Fiddy a question and Fiddy compared Benbow with Hitler, as I understand it. The attorneys apparently complained to Fiddy that Benbow was feeling harassed as a result of the video. And they also took umbrage that Fiddy has implied that Benbow was a liar.
Fiddy explains his view of the situation here. He took the video off of YouTube recently and issued an apology to Benbow. Fiddy, most of you know, had some rotten experiences on Seroxat (Paxil).
Going after Fiddy for comparing Benbow to Hitler shows an incredibly thin skin on Benbow’s behalf and how silly British press laws are (the subject for another day perhaps). It’s also a move that Fiddy should regard as a backhanded compliment and a badge of honor. He’s being targeted because he is one of the loudest voices on the Internet denouncing GSK and how it’s handled Paxil/Seroxat and he’s clearly gotten under Benbow’s skin. Basically, GSK used lawyers to intimidate an activist into shutting up, especially in light of the fact that there are many, many others on the Internet who have talked serious trash about Benbow. Unless GSK plans to go after everyone who’s said anything sharp about Benbow, then they have singled out Fiddy.
Beyond that, this kind of behavior on GSK’s part chaps my hide, as the saying goes, because GSK has had run ins with academics before and attempted to stifle their views. I simply won’t tolerate this sort of nonsense and since I have obtained a copy of the video thanks to the magic of the Internet, I am posting it here, unedited.
The video is also on YouTube here. You can comment on it here or on YouTube. I know that Paxil/Seroxat stirs passions like few other psych meds, so I’d simply ask that people who feel compelled to comment on this matter in any fashion keep their rhetoric reasonably decent.
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After paying out billions of dollars for the damage caused by GSK and their drug Paxil; I personally believe Fid has been vindicated & shown the world that standing up & speaking the truth can create/force change, while holding even the most powerful multi-billion dollar international pharmaceutical corporation accountable for their actions & crimes against humanity.
Kudos, Keep pounding that drum Fid.
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Update from John Mack http://pharmamkti...: Drug Discovery is as Much an Art as a Science, Says GSK CEO Witty
GSK's "More Than Medicine" blog posts today announced that GSK CEO Andrew Witty "recently wrote a forward-looking essay focusing on the future of the pharmaceutical industry for 2011 and beyond."
In that essay -- published in the Economist (here) -- one paragraph stands out: "Art, not just science" is the heading, under which Witty says: "First, we need to recapture the ability to empower creative talent in the discovery phase of r&d by creating an environment in the labs that reflects the fact that discovering a drug is as much an art as it is a process."
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News Update: from soulful sepulcher link--->
Psychiatrist on GSK payroll sentenced: 13 mo in prison for research fraud - Paxil & children!
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And yet another update on the corporate criminal organization known as GSK -
Recognition and Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders: A Psychopharmacology Handbook for Primary Care-ghostwritten by GSK : Charles Nemeroff AGAIN
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3 comments:
Pope says:
"don't trust women"
"one more Paxil lie & you burn for eternity"
"no GSK does not condone use of condoms or Paxil"
Benbow says:
"will i burn forever for that Paxil incident?"
"i lied to my lawyers and my wife"
"i sometimes blame my bad choices on my twin"
PS appears the Cardinal also has an evil twin:
i look like an idiot and am one!
Nice post Stan. Thanks for the big up.
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