— Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has revealed that Merck’s internal documents state the company’s big push to have their HPV vaccine Gardasil become mandatory for all children over the age of 9 is to help offset the losses the company experienced from VIOXX lawsuits.
VIOXX was Merck’s #1 product. It was a prescription painkiller that was causing heart attacks and strokes. The company was sued in court and it was revealed that Merck was aware their drug was killing people and did nothing about it. They agreed to pay $7 billion to settle the lawsuits against them.
In an interview with The Gilchrist Experience RFK Jr. reveals that internal Merck documents show the company is promoting mandatory HPV vaccines to children as a way to convince Wall St. analysts that their stock was set to boom despite the VIOXX scandal. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated the following:
“The Wall St. analysts were saying (Merck) was finished, because (VIOXX) was their biggest product. Merck said no, we’ve got something better. We’ve got a product that is going to be mandated so everyone in the world has to take it, every teenager; and this time we have no liability and we can’t get caught. Within Merck we now have documents from them because we are suing them; they called it “HPV, Help Pay for VIOXX.”
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Read Part 2 to this post at the following link: Eileen Iorio sets the record straight
https://thefedupdemocrat.home.blog/2019/11/27/hpv-vaccine-to-help-pay-for-vioxx/
Thank you to Flo Butterman for catching and tweeting the RFK interview referenced above: READ MORE HERE!
The PPJ Gazette 
Dec 04, 2019 @ 13:47:44
Merck v. Albrecht: The Supreme Court Eviscerates Preemption In Branded Drug Lawsuits
By Max Kennerly, Esq. on May 31, 2019
POSTED IN ATTORNEY
On May 20, 2019, the United States Supreme Court decided Merck v. Albrecht (In re Fosamax), No. 17-290 (text version available here), destroying most of the arguments routinely used by drug companies to claim that plaintiffs’ cases are “preempted” and have to be dismissed. The law for people injured by branded prescription drugs is far better now than it was before Albrecht, and as a result, it is likely that far more victims will get to see their day in court.
After Albrecht, a branded prescription drug manufacturer can establish impossibility preemption — which happens when federal law makes it “impossible” for defendants to comply with state tort laws that enable victims to seek compensation — only if they can show:
https://www.litigationandtrial.com/2019/05/articles/attorney/merck-v-albrecht-impossibility-preemption/
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