Downstream: Big Pharma’s Secrets w/ Nick Dearden

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Downstream: Big Pharma’s Secrets w/ Nick Dearden

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Sep 25, 2023

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Nick Dearden has been an economic justice campaigner for over 20 years, and his attention was on the pharmaceutical industry when Covid-19 hit. But as the world began to sing the praises of pharmaceutical companies, Nick saw an unprecedented PR coup. Giant corporations capitalised on the crisis, tightening their stranglehold over the health of the […]

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Downstream: Big Pharma’s Secrets w/ Nick Dearden

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