#263 – John Abramson: Big Pharma
John Abramson is faculty at Harvard Medical School and a family physician for over two decades. He’s the author of the new book Sickening about how big pharma broke American healthcare and how we can fix it. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Noom: https://trynoom.com/lex – Notion: https://notion.com/startups to get up to $1000 off team plan – InsideTracker: https://insidetracker.com/lex and use code Lex25 to get 25% off – Athletic Greens: https://athleticgreens.com/lex and use code LEX to get 1 month of fish oil – Onnit: https://lexfridman.com/onnit to get up to 10% off EPISODE LINKS: John’s Website: https://hcp.hms.harvard.edu/people/john-david-abramson Sickening (book): https://amzn.to/3gsVHef Overdosed America (book): https://amzn.to/3LmrWKn PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ YouTube Full Episodes: https://youtube.com/lexfridman YouTube Clips: https://youtube.com/lexclips SUPPORT & CONNECT: – Check out the sponsors above, it’s the best way to support this podcast – Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman – Twitter: https://twitter.com/lexfridman – Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman – LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman – Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman – Medium: https://medium.com/@lexfridman OUTLINE: Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) – Introduction (14:29) – Biggest problem with big pharma (23:30) – Advertising (43:22) – Corruption (59:38) – Pfizer vaccine data (1:08:30) – Vaccine profits (1:19:25) – Censorship (1:40:11) – FDA (1:48:45) – NIH (1:57:42) – Live longer (2:01:13) – Medications (2:09:37) – Doctors (2:13:44) – Advice for young people (2:14:40) – Big pharma’s influence (2:19:24) – Mortality (2:21:15) – Meaning of life