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Explanation and justification

Pharmaceutical research and medical care can save lives. However, they are not doing it for the sake of humanity, but as part of a business model – a highly profitable, globally active sector whose primary goal is not health, but growth and profit.

Almost all leading pharmaceutical companies are listed stock corporations. This means that they are legally and structurally obliged to maximize value for their shareholders. Their success is not measured by how many people are healthy – but by how many paying “customers” in need of treatment can be retained in the long term.

In business terms, a healed person is a lost market.

There is therefore no incentive for a sustainable cure – even if it were theoretically possible. Instead, structure, marketing and politics promote a system of chronic dependencies, ever new therapies, long-term medication and anticipatory prevention programs – all controlled by a network of interests and influence.

What is reality today

The coronavirus crisis has exposed and exacerbated this dangerous concentration of power:

• Governments conclude contracts worth billions with corporations – often under confidentiality clauses, without the right of withdrawal, without liability.
• Advisory bodies are staffed by industry-related players who are also active in foundations, institutes or lobby groups.
• Promotional narratives are presented as “scientific consensus”, while real scientific debate is suppressed.
• Censorship of critical doctors, journalists and scientists takes place digitally, legally and socially.
• Approval processes and studies are subject to massive conflicts of interest: Manufacturers finance, test and publish their own data.
• Warning signals about side effects – as with the COVID “vaccination” – were not discussed publicly, but deliberately concealed, in some cases demonstrably covered up.

There were already indications of serious side effects in the manufacturers’ internal studies, but this information was not made transparent, but actively suppressed. The same pattern can be found in countless previous scandals – from thalidomide to Vioxx to opioids:
Profits were maximized while the risks were outsourced – and the victims ignored.

Why this is dangerous

A system that sees health not as a goal but as a market produces systemic injustice, suffering and loss of trust:

• Health is becoming a commodity – only accessible if you are able to pay, conform or are politically compliant.
• The political agenda is merging with corporate interests – laws, recommendations and “necessities” are not the result of ethics, but of calculation.
• The common good is subordinated – to the quarterly balance sheet, the share price, shareholder value.
• Democratic control is replaced by institutionalized intransparency.

Such a system is not sick – it is structurally corrupt. And it jeopardizes the foundations of any solidary understanding of health.

Our position

We2030 demands:

• A clear, complete separation of the pharmaceutical industry and health policy decision-making powers.
• A public and independent review of all conflicts of interest and power interdependencies, especially since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis.
• The introduction of international regulations to permanently prevent a merger of economic power and political control in the healthcare sector.
• The full liability of manufacturers for all consequential costs, damages and deaths associated with defective products, manipulated studies or concealed risks – regardless of previous exclusions of liability.
• The retroactive annulment of all contracts that were based on false assumptions and deliberate deception– especially if:
  • decision-makers were not fully informed,
  • critical information was suppressed,
  • Study results were manipulated or selectively published,
  • and if the conclusion of these contracts took place to the exclusion of parliamentary control and public debate.

Contracts based on lies are null and void.
Political decisions that were reached under deception must be reversed.

A constitutional state must not allow corporations to shirk their responsibilities with political blessing while millions of people bear the consequences – health, economic and social.

Pharma must not be allowed to dictate global policy.
And certainly not on the basis of deception, blackmail and immunity.

Those who have profited must be held liable.
Those who have been deceived must be protected.
And those who bear responsibility must face up to it – unreservedly and publicly.