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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.mercola.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Conventional Medicine on the Run as Pfizer's Financial Fortunes Decline</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2007/01/24/Conventional-Medicine-on-the-Run-as-Pfizers-Financial-Fortunes-Decline.aspx</link><description>How far "the mighty" have fallen since Pfizer, America's kingpin among the mega-drugmakers, spent a cool $90 billion to buy Warner-Lambert seven years ago. Late last year, the New York company did the unthinkable, trimming its once-untouchable sales force</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008.5 SP1 (Build: 31106.3070)</generator><item><title>re: Conventional Medicine on the Run as Pfizer's Financial Fortunes Decline</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2007/01/24/Conventional-Medicine-on-the-Run-as-Pfizers-Financial-Fortunes-Decline.aspx#88652</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:27:51 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:88652</guid><dc:creator>okiewhoop</dc:creator><description>As a former Pfizer scientist, I can say with full conviction that the lies being promoted on this&amp;nbsp;forum are some of the most absurd that I have ever been exposed to.&amp;nbsp; Contrary to Dr. Mercola's headline, conventional medicine is not 'on the run'.&amp;nbsp; Pfizer did make some business mistakes by acquiring too many companies in a short period of time (Pharmacia/Upjohn, Warner-Lambert, Agouron, Idun, etc) and there have been issues of patent expirations and a single high-profile clinical trial failure, but thankfully, the company isn't going anywhere.&amp;nbsp; As a Ph.D.-level R&amp;amp;D scientist in the pharmaceutical industry, my career goal is to contribute to the process of developing new drugs which will save lives and improve the quaility of life for ill patients.&amp;nbsp; This ideology is the same for every phamaceutical company scientist that I have ever worked with.&amp;nbsp; We are not evil, money-grubbing, dishonest, or any other name that we are called by other readers on this site.&amp;nbsp; For those of you who are so full of hatred for those of us who are devoting our days and nights to working towards helping you, your parents, your children...please, don't buy or use our products...don't be such hypocrites.&amp;nbsp; In fact, do yourselves some credit and go to your parents' homes and flush their evil drugs down the toilet.&amp;nbsp; Go to your neighbors homes and do them the favor of disposing the medications prescribed to their children...I'm sure they'll thank you.&amp;nbsp; Better yet, light a big bonfire fueled with all of the evil medicines you can find, dance around it and celebrate the loss of jobs of hard-working people at Pfizer with noble intentions and families to support.&amp;nbsp; I am a member of this site because I believe that there is value in some of what Dr. Mercola has to say but the vilification of the pharmaceutical industry and the lies that are being&amp;nbsp;promoted here as truth has just gone too far.&lt;img src="http://blogs.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=88652" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Conventional Medicine on the Run as Pfizer's Financial Fortunes Decline</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2007/01/24/Conventional-Medicine-on-the-Run-as-Pfizers-Financial-Fortunes-Decline.aspx#88651</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:15:54 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:88651</guid><dc:creator>enzo</dc:creator><description>I'm proud to have been a part of their decline for the past 3-1/2 years. I will continue the natural path until the end, theirs or mine. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I don't really care what they come up with in the future, because they have no credibility or trustworthyness. Anything they come up with will ultimately do more harm than good.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Their goal is to make money. My goal is to keep that from happening.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Good riddance to bad medicine.&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=88651" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Conventional Medicine on the Run as Pfizer's Financial Fortunes Decline</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2007/01/24/Conventional-Medicine-on-the-Run-as-Pfizers-Financial-Fortunes-Decline.aspx#88650</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:12:01 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:88650</guid><dc:creator>Russ Bianchi</dc:creator><description>&lt;P&gt;Wounded&amp;nbsp;and imploding entities&amp;nbsp;can become even more dangerous...look at the old Soviet Union's disintegration,&amp;nbsp;now more dangerous and corrupt as Russia, and it's former client satillite states.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;The same holds true&amp;nbsp;for Big Pharma, who is diversifying into bio-tech, GMO, and other DARK or EVIL technologies.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Tobacco diversified into Big Food, and look how bad that has been for the American food chain, in dumb-downed nutrition.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;When moral standards, natural law or logic, and ethics fail, without accountability, those in or around it, or dependent on it, are in BIG TROUBLE.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=88650" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Conventional Medicine on the Run as Pfizer's Financial Fortunes Decline</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2007/01/24/Conventional-Medicine-on-the-Run-as-Pfizers-Financial-Fortunes-Decline.aspx#88649</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:38:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:88649</guid><dc:creator>mmc88121</dc:creator><description>&lt;P&gt;Pfizer is still going to attempt to come up with a new drug that they can make billions of dollars on.&amp;nbsp; At least now they can't hid the information like they used to.&lt;/P&gt;
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