Follow the Science

Follow the Science: How Big Pharma Misleads, Obscures, and Prevails by Sharyl Attkisson
9/3/24; 336 pages
HarperCollins

Follow the Science: How Big Pharma Misleads, Obscures, and Prevails by Sharyl Attkisson is a very highly recommended exposé of the corruption, subterfuge, propaganda, misinformation, and cover-ups present in the pharmaceutical industry and supported by the news media for decades.

As the epigraph states, No legitimate scientist ever declared science to be 'settled.' Once I started reading Follow the Science I could not put it down. It is well written, meticulously researched, clearly presented, and infinitely compelling and interesting. The number of passages I highlighted while reading is unprecedented. While still reading I immediately started sharing information with my family about the book. I preordered a hardcover copy. Everyone needs to read Follow the Science and it should be a call to action.

For many people Covid, the propaganda, and the growing number of health issues related to the vaccine have become the impetus for a growing disenchantment with the scientific establishment and pharmaceutical companies. For others this was a confirmation of the already present need to question Big Pharma, even while being labeled "anti-", or a denier, banned from social media, or attacked personally. Attkisson has spent years researching how the government, federal agencies, doctors, medical associations, and disguised nonprofits backed by industry push misinformation on the public. Even published medical studies are often unreliable and have been ghostwritten with the backing and support of the major pharmaceutical companies. Always follow the money.

There are so many truths uncovered in Follow the Science. Some of these include: 

The risks behind the small pox vaccination and numerous examples of other vaccine injuries and ineffectiveness.

The Baby Oxygen study (or SUPPORT), informed consent, and the subsequent death of some babies. 

The Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm, that was approved with no completed study with collaboration between the FDA and Biogen and caused brain bleeding and swelling. 

How media companies are beholden to the drug industry which account for 75% of all ad spending. 

Fifteen examples that explain how nearly everything Americans have been led to believe about vaccinations is scientifically proven false. 

“The Biggest Coverup” is the shocking story of the links between vaccines and autism.

The documentation how the dangerous mercury preservative, thimerosal, is still in many vaccinations years after the media and medical establishment claimed it had been removed.

The herbicide atrazine and how it interferes with hormonal regulation and development. Big Pharma went after the researcher to discredit, intimidate, and threaten him while trying to bury his research. This was followed by a big lobby and money to influence the EPA decision on it's environmental safety.

The use of Viagra and a tie to blindness and deafness.

Widespread ghostwriting, when doctors sign their name to articles actually written by drug makers.

Pharmaceutical companies pay doctors to promote drugs, hide adverse reactions, control studies and public health through research funds, present compromised articles in medical journals, and drive the public narrative

A large portion of the book covers the numerous errors made during Covid by the CDC, FDA , and Big Pharma, including the overreaching control, propaganda, spread of false information, over counting, ethics lapses, fraud, and the overwhelming large scale harm the vaccines caused and are still causing through Long Covid/Long Vax.

Follow the Science 'will challenge your assumptions, open your eyes, and inspire you to take action. With its powerful message of truth and justice, this book is a must-read for anyone who cares about the future of our healthcare system and their own family's health.'

Attkisson has been a journalist for over forty years and a New York Times best selling author. She is the recipient of five Emmy Awards and an Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative reporting. She has worked at CBS News, PBS, and CNN, and is a fifth degree blackbelt master in Taekwondo. Recently, disillusioned by the suppression and control of news by mainstream media, she became a nonpartisan investigative journalist, launching a Sunday morning national TV news program, Sinclair’s "Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson."

Thanks to HarperCollins for providing me with an advance reader's copy via Edelweiss. My review is voluntary and expresses my honest opinion.