Bill Cosby Allegations: Many Parellels to PFS Cases...

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#1

While watching Barbara Bowman on CNN detailing her alleged rape by Bill Cosby…

cnn.com/2014/11/14/showbiz/t … legations/

…it dawned on me how many parallels there are between her ordeal and the ordeal of most every PFS patient. For example:

-When Bowman tried to tell her agent and an attorney about the rapes, they laughed at her.

-It took her a full decade to get any national recognition.

-Cosby just denied, denied, denied.

-All the while, Cosby was earned millions and millions more dollars.

-Cosby was welcomed to the White House by President Obama – just as Kenneth C. Frazier was two years ago, to serve as an economic adviser.

The good news is that social media is what changed the equation for Bowman – and all the other victims. All someone had to do was take an iPhone video of Hannibal Buress onstage calling Cosby a rapist and the cat was out of the bag. Once millions of people started sharing the video, the media came down on Cosby like an avalanche. Now it seems that his legacy is irreparably harmed. He never counted on social media coming along to bust the issue wide open and fan enough flames that the traditional media had no choice by to pay attention.

In any event, I can see a similar fate for Merck. At some point, the hundreds of thousands of people whose lives have been decimated by the company’s drugs will gather as one and bring Kenneth C. Frazier and his merry band of pharmaceutical rapists to justice – at least in the court of public opinion.

#2

Just today workinprogress posted this about the victims of Thalidomide:

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Note the title of the article: “how men who blighted lives of thousands evaded justice”

I’d love to share your optimism but that’s not necessarily how the world works and so the link to Bill Cosby is tenuous.

#3

Yea I have had similar thoughts of comparisons. What I’ve gathered is that evil really does exist, injustice continues without punishment, and this world really is every man for himself. But that’s not the way I grew up. In my small town everyone looks out for the little man. Most common people of the world are not sociopaths. Most look out for each other and seek to punish those who prey on the innocent. But evil still prevails. Always has and always will. But we shouldn’t lose faith in man kind because I would say most people are good in nature. But we must live with these sociopaths who don’t care for human life.

#4

Agreed – and that’s my point: we can work together to bring Merck to justice.

Imagine the press coverage if 1000 people – victims not only of Propecia, but Vioxx, Gardasil, Fosamax, etc. – gathered outside their headquarters for 2 days with protest signs reading things like:

Out of the courtrooms
And into the streets
Merck & Co. must be beat!

Even homemade videos from such an event would go viral and be picked up by media outlets around the globe.

#5

If you have not been following the Bill Cosby rape scandal, I’d start doing so – and very carefully.

In commentary like John Jewell’s in The Conversation…

theconversation.com/bill-cosbys- … ower-34776

…note passages like this:

“Bringing down Cosby – something the mainstream media couldn’t manage in decades – took the internet just over a week. And that, surely, is of great importance.”

And if you think that a similar fate cannot happen to Kenneth C. Frazier and his merry band of pharmaceutical terrorists, think again.

When Robin Williams took his own like, I speculated here…

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…finasteride probably played a role. And some reacted with comments like this:

“It’s absurd to speculate that Propecia was the cause of Robin Williams’ depression and death. He had long standing demons by all accounts, and issues with addiction.”

OK. We now know that Robin HAD taken finasteride.

So, again, please believe me when I say the time is ripe for Merck to be taken down many, many notches by critical masses of regular people pouring their outrage out on social media.