Looks like our Drug Buddies up on 202 were pushing some high grade stuff
The integrity of the Nobel prize was called into question last night after it emerged that a member of the jury also sat on the board of a pharmaceuticals giant that benefited from the award of this year’s prize for medicine.
Prosecutors were studying whether AstraZeneca, the London-based multi-national pharmaceutical company, could have exerted undue influence on the award.
The joint winner of this year’s Nobel Prize for Medicine, Harald zur Hausen, was recognised for his work on the human papilloma virus (HPV), which can lead to cervical cancer. AstraZeneca has a stake in two lucrative vaccines against the virus
I’m not going to lie, I love that fact that we have two handfuls of huge fortune 500 companies right in our backyard and the NJ never seems to be able to break a story about any malfeasance done by them. I wonder if that is one of the selling points the governors give.
“Hey, listen” (looks around to see if anyone is watching) “Our press is horrendous, the people in this state couldn’t blow a whistle if it was surgically attached to their lips. You are more than safe here”
You’d think with all the people in this area, someone would leak something to someone about something somewhere somehow.