New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science (NZDSOS) is calling for transparency and accountability around pharmaceutical companies influencing and funding national medical regulatory bodies.
‘The response to our recent Official Information Act (OIA) request has revealed that Medsafe received a staggering percentage of its funding from large pharmaceutical companies – 84.05% in the year 2022/2023,’ said NZDSOS in a press release today.
‘This is in line with the funding of other national medicine regulatory bodies such as the MHRA, TGA and the FDA.
‘Medsafe, which oversees the approval of medications, confirms its commitment to ‘big pharma’, noting it is “also accountable to the pharmaceutical industry for those activities which are funded by fees collected from the [pharmaceutical] industry”, where it receives millions of dollars each year from ‘big pharma’ companies.’
Spokesperson for NZDSOS, Dr Cindy de Villiers says, “This portrays a huge conflict of interest for Medsafe. Drug companies get approval for medications and the public rightly believes they assess data independently.
“Independence cannot be assured if Medsafe is being funded by the very companies that they are overseeing,” said Dr de Villiers.
Given that Pfizer is in the top five contributors, further questions arise as to the recent full approval given to four variations of Comirnaty, the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines used in NZ.
‘This study, released in September 2022 by an Associate Editor of the British Medical Journal (BMJ), Peter Doshi, and one of the world’s top epidemiologists, Sander Greenland, is still the definitive finding on the very adverse risk-benefit ratio of the mRNA Covid-19 vaccine using the manufacturers’ own data. “The findings were concerning, to say the least. We have discussed this many times, and informed officials, most recently here in our latest open letter.’
“The rate of adverse events of special significance in this particular study was 1 in 800, this from US monitoring which is proven to substantially under-report. However, we are seeing a much higher rate than that in New Zealand, where the serious adverse events suffered could be as high as one in 10, said Dr de Villiers.
“After all, data suggests a huge percentage of those vaccinated with Covid, seem to get some degree of heart damage”. If Medsafe is accountable to pharmaceutical companies, which provide it with needed funding, NZDSOS questions how can remain unbiased on the medications it approves.
“When ‘big pharma’ is involved in trials as well as funding the regulator (who should be examining the evidence critically and without bias), there is concerning potential for the benefits of drugs and other interventions to be exaggerated and for real people to suffer, without anyone held to account”, Dr de Villiers said. NZDSOS once again, calls for an immediate halt to the mRNA injection rollout, pending a full investigation and calls for true transparency and accountability from our national medical regulatory body, Medsafe, regarding conflicts of interest between funding agencies and drug approvals.
Thank you NZDSOS
Thank you Daily Telegraph NZ
This is a revealing informative investigation and open journalism. More of what we need revealed so new government may be inspired to take opportunities to work openly towards cleaning up NZ for all NZers which may have a ripple effect to help humanity worldwide.
Yeah, that’s kinda how it works.
Research grants work in similar fashion: If you don’t tow the narrative, no funding.
Medsafe make the USFDA look like saints; they are only 45% bought by big pharma! Thank goodness I have an independent brain. And thanks to the person who recommended to look after your own health, or “others” will do it. Now we know who are these “others”: big outfits who want to make you chronically ill so you eternally depend on their products.
MedSafe is far worse than a conflict of interest, it’s a criminal gang. These corrupt unethical scumbags recommended jabbing kids who are (and always have been) at statistically zero risk from Covid.
The MedSafe board and senior management must be held accountable for this heinous crime against humanity.
MedSafe is NOT in a conflict of interest. They are instituted EXACTLY for the purpose Big Pharma has intended. The also corrupt politicians signed it off, getting their bribes through book deals, art auctions, straw((wo)men, associates and ‘revolving doors’. Do they really think we are that stupid?
Until is see prosecutions, NOTHING will change in this cuntry. NOTHING!
Not enough facts to answer the articles title question?
Yes Pfizer produced NZ’s COVID vaccine, but they don’t top the list.
What are the agreed measures they are held accountable to, stated on Medsafe’s website?
How were they decided?
By who?
What is the funding used for?
The information released tells us almost nothing, sensationalized to Futher NZDSOS’ narrative. If you continually criticise legacy media of bias reporting then shouldn’t you be held to that standard?
Come on NZDSOS, you’re better than this, where’s the rest of the facts to back your claims?
critical thinking not one of your strong points
Haven’t NZDSOS on numerous occasions stated Medsafe refused to approve the COVID vaccine? Also stating they were effectively ordered to do so? Have Medsafe given it full approval? So Pfizer are on a list of fee payers, who do you think make all the other drugs people rely on? So where’s the proof Medsafe were bought off?
Haven’t NZDSOS spent the last three years telling us to do the research, ask questions and think for ourselves? Or does that not apply to what they say?
Here is something for your brain…crank it up. You need it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLBtckWqbNE
And you wonder why the majority of the country think the loudest of the ‘freedom movement are crackpots You do your cause no favours
Explain to us how adern became a multi millionaire and her coke head boy friend got a book deal.Turn off your msm and do some research , then put the pieces together yourself. for goodness sakes I’m not your mother. Oh and do try and keep up
So you must have access to their financial accounts then, I don’t, so maybe you’d like to share the proof with everyone?
close medsafe NOW!
It is essential for NZ moving forward to hold the decision makers in and around the Medsafe structure accountable. Huge appreciation to NZDSOS for the long hours and collective knowledge that has and is going into researching and exposing corrupt medical practices in the senior management levels of the health sector
NZDSOS will go down in the annals of Godzone, fighting the scoundrels, which also will go DOWN into the anals of New Zealand sell-outs.
Its the same with the FDA in the US!!