Originally published October 19 2005
Report claims drug industry was resorting to fear tactics to scare U.S. consumers into avoiding prescription drugs from Canada
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
The New York Daily New reports that the powerful pharmaceutical lobby planned to publish a thriller aimed to scare generic drug buyers in Canada.
In a tale worthy of a zany Washington satire - except for the lamentable fact that it's true - the rich and powerful pharmaceutical lobby secretly commissioned a thriller novel whose aim was to scare the living daylights out of folks who might want to buy cheap drugs from Canada.
When the project fell through in July, I'm told the drug lobby offered $100,000 to the co-authors and publisher in a vain effort to sweep it under the rug.
Drug-lobby mouthpiece Ken Johnson, executive vice president of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, acknowledged the hare-brained scheme but shifted blame.
"We did not commission a book," Johnson argued.
"The idea was brought to us by an outside consultant.
Phoenix honcho Michael Viner, who happens to be Barondess' publisher, struck a six-figure deal.
Her story concerned a Croatian terrorist cell that uses Canadian Web sites to murder millions of unwitting Americans looking for cut-rate pharmaceuticals.
PhRMA has vigorously fought all efforts to legalize the purchase of cheap drugs from Canada.
Chrystyn titled her thriller-in-progress "The Spivak Conspiracy," an homage to her friend Kenin Spivak, an L.A. telecomm entrepreneur and onetime Hollywood exec.
Bono declared after losing a bidding war to Chris Martin at a celebrity-designed lunchbox auction the other night.
The two Euro-rockers were vying for a lunchbox styled by Michael Stipe at the celeb-glutted event benefiting the Food Bank for New York City when Martin finally prevailed with a $20,000 offer.
To mark the DVD release of the first season of the 1950s series "Adventures of Superman," 100,000 copies of New York's Hometown Newspaper - featuring a commemorative "Daily Planet" cover - are being handed out free at New York City transit hubs.
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