Correcting vaccine falsehoods (brought to you by Pfizer)

The top ‘o the op-ed page in today’s Globe goes to Timothy Caulfield; Correcting falsehoods isn’t cancel culture.

Mr Caulfield, we are told, is Canada Research Chair in health law and policy at the University of Alberta. He has a bee in his bonnet over those gosh-darned anti-vaxxers and COVID deniers like Aaron Rogers, Joe Rogan, and “disgraced American virologist Robert Malone.”

Rogan had the disgraced guy on his show recently. I personally don’t have the attention span to follow a three hour interview, but apparently 11 million others did. That’s a gargantuan number for anything found on American screens, easily eclipsing all cable news platforms combined. Obviously, pandemic scepticism is growing, two full years into this circus.

I like to check out the affiliations of the thought leaders who appear on the op-ed page. I googled "corporate partnerships u of alberta."

Oh, what a surprise! There’s Pfizer! Along with fellow pharma bigs Merck and J & J! Root around a little more on the old googlator and you’ll find the pharma partners are worth tens of millions to the U of A!

Check out this Wikipedia page, List of largest pharmaceutical settlements.

All of U Alberta’s pharma partners are on it!

Pfizer is on it twice!

And that list ends in 2012. Here’s an updated accounting of Pfizers many regulatory challenges since 2000. Over ten billion in fines for their many shenanigans in the past twenty years!

So who are you gonna believe?

An NFL quarterback, or a guy whose employer takes money from Pfizer?