"Rich Shewmaker" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:Wow! Seven billion dollars! Yes, that is a lot of money. Almost as much as Pfizer made on Lipitor®
in 2002 ($7.972 billion). The same company made
more
Quoted message said:than two billion dollars on Neurontin® in 2002, despite reports that the drug has been associated
with suicide.Notice that to get to the seven billion figure, you have to combine the profits of three
companies. Note that vaccines account for only 5.6% of Merck's income on their 2002
financial report.
It is quite obvious that the anti-vacs, like Jan, et al, are opposed to vaccines, etc. because
someone is making money on it. It is a form of class envy.
Quoted message said:Production of tetanus vaccine is so unprofitable that one of the producers dropped out of the
business last year, causing a shortage of the vaccines.Sorry, this article does not prove that vaccines are such a huge profit center for the
pharmaceutical companies that they are engaging in illegal conspiracies with the U.S. Government
to promote them. By the way, there
are
Quoted message said:no "vaccines mandated by law."
Quite true. There are vaccinations that a re required for a child to engage in certain activities,
but, if the parent wants to do extra work, the child can be left exposed to deadly diseases.