Donald Rumsfeld makes money off vaccines.

[TZ]

I saw this stupid meme yet again today (flu vaccine). Where is this belief coming from? I've worked for various vaccine manufacturers (including my current job) none of whom are associated with Rumsfeld. Now I do remember hearing that he had stock in the company that made aspartame but how does that get transfered to vaccines? Anybody know?

[Orrex]

1. Asparatame is added to make the vaccines sweet and delicious

With just a tiny aftertaste.

[trotsky]

2. Who the hell knows.

Thing is, it could probably be said about anyone in the US with a minimal 401(k) account. I'm sure even Barack Obama makes money off vaccines.

[Jim__]

3. Jeralyn Merritt did a story on that back in 2006.

Don't know if that's the source or not.

[TZ]

4. Ah. I bet thats it.

Bird flu, flu shot..meh its all the same anyway right?:D

[Pierre.Suave]

5. the logical progression is

Bird Flu > Flu Shot > Bird Shot...

next thing you know you're in Cheney's way when he is hunting and getting a trip to the ER and apologizing to him on TV... How could Rumsfeld NOT be making money off of that...

:rofl:

[madinmaryland]

6. Unless he owns stock in a vaccine manufacturer or is on the board

of one of those firms. I have no idea if he is or not.

[Deep13]

7. Aspertame & vaccine are "chemicals" made by "big Pharma."

So it's all one big conspiracy.

Anyway, so what if Rumsfeld owns stock in those companies? It's about time he did something constructive.

[Hannah Bell]

8. n

http://baltimorechronicle.com/2006/050806Markoff.shtml

[TZ]

9. Tamiflu is NOT the flu vaccine!

BTW, I work for one of the largest flu vaccine manufacturers in the world. I can assure you that Mr. Rumsfeld is NOT a member of the BOD or corporation. He may hold stock but who knows. Of course we all know that its okay for people to DIE of pneumonia and other infections that the flu brings as long as Rumsfeld doesn't make a penny right?
Take your bullshit back to the Health Scare Lounge where it belongs.

[Hannah Bell]

10. Your heading: Rumsfeld makes money off vaccines. The article (Baltimore Sun, reputable paper):

"the Government has stockpiled two billion dollars worth of Tamiflu. This drug was developed a decade back by Gilead, of which Rumsfeld was the CEO, the company then transferring all marketing and sale rights to the Roche Company.

...swine flu, to the extent that President Ford ordered massive inoculations in 1976. When fifty people died from the drug, its administration was suspended, but not before Mr. Rumsfeld pocketed an estimated five million...Much of the swine flu story and its dubious provenance has been documented by a Johns Hopkins medical professor, Arthur Silverstein, in his book Pure Politics and Impure Science, subtitled The Swine Flu Affair (JHU Press,1984). His account emphasizes how President Ford's desire to win election on his own rendered him susceptible to pressure from the pharmaceuticals to inoculate all Americans, 220 million people, against the Swine flu despite only one clearly documented fatality. It became a $135 million program which had reached 40 million before the accumulation of fatalities and a linkage to several cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome or paralysis saw suspension of the vaccine. The pharmaceutical companies had pre-arranged for the government to assume any liabilities...

....Rumsfeld as the CEO of G.D. Searle Company in 1977."


The article gives info about Rumsfeld "making money off vaccines", & his history of employment with pharmacorps.

Sorry you don't like it, but it happens to be true.

[Hannah Bell]

11. ps: take your snark back to the pseudoscience ghetto, a forum entirely devoted to

denigrating fellow posters - supposedly in the name of "science".

Yeah, party line mentality makes for excellent "science".