Have you ever felt betrayed by the medical system?

You're not alone in asking, "Why do people hate Big Pharma?"

You follow the advice. You take the prescription. You trust the person in the white coat. But that quiet sense that something is deeply wrong—that feeling of being unheard, of your own experience being dismissed—it doesn't go away. Your spidey sense is tingling. And you know how much I hate spiders!

You are not imagining it. This guide serves as a warning: your trust is being exploited. The healthcare landscape is not the safe harbour you were promised.

My journey has been... eclectic. Doctor, patient, nutritionist, tech geek—I've learned to connect the dots that live in different silos. This guide is my attempt to show you the picture they form, and to give a voice to that nagging feeling that something is deeply, fundamentally broken.

Explore the evidence, understand what you're up against, and discover the tools to start fighting back. If this resonates with you, you can schedule a free comprehensive health assessment with me.

What Does Big Pharma Actually Do?

To understand why your health is casually discarded, you have to understand the sheer scale of the money at stake. We're not talking about small profits; we're talking about sums larger than the economies of many countries. This is the engine of greed, power, and status that motivates the system. Let's make these abstract billions real.

A Choice: Patients or Shareholders?

This chart compares companies' Net Profit with how they spend their money. Every pound spent on stock buybacks is a pound not spent on safety trials or finding a cure. It reveals their true priority: enriching shareholders over reinvesting in science.

Who Does Big Pharma Donate to Politically?

How do you protect a profitable system? You buy influence. This isn't "lobbying"; it's a flood of cash to ensure no law ever threatens the bottom line. This is the price tag for political silence.

£275M+

Spent on Lobbying by Top Pharma in 2023

This is more than the entire annual budget of the UK's Food Standards Agency, the body meant to protect public health.

An Alliance for Illness: Beyond Competition

The idea of fierce competition between pharmaceutical giants is a comforting myth. The reality is far more troubling. The largest shareholders in supposedly rival companies like Pfizer and Merck are the exact same institutional investors (Vanguard, BlackRock, etc.). This isn't an accident; it's a strategy. When you own the whole field, you don't want the players to compete on price or find one-time cures. You want them to cooperate to grow the entire market. Illness becomes a massive, shared investment opportunity. The goal shifts from winning a slice of the pie to making the whole pie bigger by creating more lifelong patients.

This agenda is amplified by powerful philanthropic forces like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. While presented as humanitarian aid, their heavy focus on technological, product-based solutions like vaccines and pharmaceuticals perfectly aligns with the syndicate's business model. It steers global health policy towards marketable commodities, reinforcing the idea that health is something you buy, not something you create.

Infamous Big Pharma Scandals Uncovered

Here, we uncover some of the most shocking Big Pharma scandals. These notable cases are not isolated incidents; they are the result of a sophisticated "tradecraft" of influence—a quiet war waged on the minds of doctors and patients. Click on each tactic below to explore the playbook used to corrupt medical knowledge and shape public consciousness.

The Illusion: Perception Over Reality

A core truth of the syndicate's business model is that healthy people don't need medications. Curing disease is a one-time transaction; managing it is an annuity. Therefore, the goal is not to produce products that make us truly healthier, but to sell the *perception* of benefit to the person with the prescription pad: the doctor.

"My doctor says I shouldn't be alive. She gave me pills for that." – Reester Pruckett on Tigg Talk

This is where surrogate markers become the key. By focusing on tenuous links between a drug and a biomarker (like cholesterol or blood pressure), the syndicate creates a compelling narrative. They build a straw man—the Avatar—by claiming that a change in a lab value is a sign of improving health. Then they do everything in their power to protect that hypothesis, censoring dissent and perpetuating the story long after it has been challenged, all to protect future markets for new, patented drugs.

Like Steve Jobs' famous "reality distortion field," this creates a bubble of influence around their products. It's a world built on layers of marketable lies, where the narrative becomes more important than reality. Doctors, eager to help, fill in the gaps, convinced by the power of the story. But the entire edifice is built on quicksand.

The Hierarchy of Control

So, who really controls Big Pharma?

The playbook is not executed by a single villain, but by a carefully curated hierarchy. These are the key players in the system that prioritises profit over patients.

The Patriarchs

The architects of the syndicate. They are the CEOs, major shareholders, and board members of the multinational pharmaceutical, food, and medical device corporations. Their shared financial incentives align their actions to prioritise profit and market expansion over genuine public health.

The Patsy

The well-intentioned practitioner (doctor, nurse, dietitian) who is systematically groomed to become an unwitting agent of the syndicate. Through a career-long process of conditioning via industry-funded education, biased guidelines, and the threat of professional ruin for non-compliance, they are trained to trust a corrupted evidence base.

This deep indoctrination means they often become the system's most passionate defenders. In psychology, these unwitting accomplices are sometimes called "flying monkeys"—people manipulated into doing the bidding of a narcissist, genuinely believing they are on the side of good. When a colleague raises questions, these practitioners may leap to the system's defence, attacking the dissenter to protect a belief system they mistake for scientific truth.

The Pawn

The trusting public, conditioned to see health as a commodity to be purchased from experts. Their trust is the system's most valuable asset, exploited through a controlled media narrative and sophisticated marketing to convert that trust into recurring revenue.

The Patriots

This is my tribe now. A rebellion of patients, doctors, and researchers who have seen through the deception. We are the ones who reject the system's flawed metrics and are building new ways to share what's true. We are the glorious, stubborn ghosts in the machine.

The Soul Wound: A Case Study in Denial

When you shake the foundations of a belief system that feels more like a religion than a science, you aren't just questioning data; you are threatening a person's entire identity. This creates a "soul wound," and the response is rarely a scientific debate. More often, it's an emotional defense that attacks the messenger to avoid the painful truth of the message.

Case in Point: The Reaction to Bad Pharma

A 2013 review of Ben Goldacre's book Bad Pharma perfectly illustrates this defensive reaction. The reviewer, a doctor, takes personal offence to the book's opening line, "Medicine is broken," asking indignantly, "How can a practising doctor possibly make such an assertion?" By framing the statement as a "foolish remark" and a "mindless attention grabber," the reviewer minimises the scale of the evidence Goldacre presents, pivoting to how successful medicine is—a way of saying, "The problems can't be that bad, so you're overreacting."

Rather than engaging with the evidence, the reviewer attacks Goldacre's tone, calling his warnings “coercive.” This is a classic example of the soul wound in action. The systemic critique is perceived as a personal attack on the reviewer's professional identity and integrity.

This reaction also contains a subtle form of gaslighting. By claiming a phrase like "'truly shocking' is coercive," the reviewer attempts to invalidate the reader's emotional response, suggesting that any alarm they feel is a result of manipulation, not the facts themselves. The blame is shifted: the person exposing the harm is framed as the one *causing* harm, simply by speaking up. It's a powerful tactic to control the narrative and dismiss uncomfortable truths.

Dive Deeper: Explore the Evidence

The issues raised here are just the beginning. Explore these articles to learn more about the systemic problems and my personal journey with iatrogenic harm.

Big Pharma: An overview of the pharmaceutical industry's business model and its impact on healthcare.

Ethical Violations:  A closer look at the history of ethical breaches and misconduct within the industry.

My Story: Gadolinium Toxicity: My personal experience with iatrogenic harm and the long road to recovery.

The Hidden Epidemic: A Shocking Reality

What if the official list of the world's biggest killers is a lie of omission? What if the #1 cause of death isn't on the list at all?¹

Drag the "Deaths by Medication" card to uncover the truth.

¹ Official data from: National Center for Health Statistics. (2024). *Provisional Mortality Data — United States, 2023*. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for a Disease Control and Prevention.

The Way Forward: A New Framework for Truth

A rebellion of doctors, researchers, and patients is challenging the system's authority by rejecting its flawed metrics. This is a fight for the very definition of "evidence." Use the buttons below to compare the system's flawed model with a framework for truth.

The System's Flawed Metrics A Framework for Truth

Your Story Matters

I know the messy, life-changing reality of pharmaceutical harm because I have the receipts—as a patient, a doctor, and a guide for my clients. It's a landscape of violation and betrayal, but also one of incredible, defiant resilience. If you feel lost, unheard, or betrayed by the medical system, please know you are not alone. Your experience is valid, and there is a path forward.

How to Protect Yourself: Start Asking Better Questions

The path forward begins with reclaiming your agency. By shifting from passive acceptance to active inquiry, we can dismantle the flawed narratives and take back control of our health.

When diagnosed: "Is this a disease, or is it a risk factor being sold to me?"

When shown a study: "Who funded this, and what does the all-cause mortality data show?"

When offered a treatment: "What do patient-reported outcomes say about quality of life?"