John Abramson: Big Pharma | Lex Fridman Podcast #263

John Abramson is faculty at Harvard Medical School and a family physician for over two decades. He's the author of the new book Sickening about how big pharma broke American healthcare and how we can fix it. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS:
John's Website: https://hcp.hms.harvard.edu/people/john-david-abramson
Sickening (book): https://amzn.to/3gsVHef
Overdosed America (book): https://amzn.to/3LmrWKn

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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
7:52 - Biggest problem with big pharma
16:54 - Advertising
36:45 - Corruption
53:01 - Pfizer vaccine data
1:01:53 - Vaccine profits
1:12:48 - Censorship
1:33:34 - FDA
1:42:09 - NIH
1:51:06 - Live longer
1:54:36 - Medications
2:03:00 - Doctors
2:07:07 - Advice for young people
2:08:03 - Big pharma's influence
2:12:47 - Mortality
2:14:38 - Meaning of life

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