Inside story of the generic drug boom and im talking t you today from massachutts. Im actually usuly based in brooklyn, new york, but were hunkering down in cape cod this summer. My book is a true crime expose of the generic drug industry an takes the readers deep into the distantanufacturing plants in india and china that make most of americas low cost medicines. Heavily reported over the course of 10 years, the book follows several key characters, an industry whistle blower, a fda investigator as they begin to uncover widespread fraud in these manufacturing plants. The question is, what made me want to pursue this topic . Im an investigative journalist and i have been at this for several decades, but in 2008, i got an unusual phone call that came from a radio show host on npr. He had the show called the peoples pharmacy. His name is joe braden, and he called me with a tip. He said that listeners were calling into his Radio Program and complaining about their generic drugs, they were
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Continues Katherine Eban is next talking about generic drugs. Hello i am Katherine Eban my book is bottle of lies i am talking to you today from massachusetts usually based in brooklyn but we are hunkering down this summer. My book is a true crime expose of the generic drug industry to take the readers into the District Manufacturing plants and make most of americas low cost medicine. Over the course of ten years seeing a industry whistleblower as they begin to undercover widespread fraud in the manufacturing plants. What made me want to pursue this topic . I am investigative journalist but in 2000 day i got an unusual phone call for radio show host on npr he had a show called the Peoples Pharmacy and he called me with the tip that the listeners were calling into his Radio Program complaining about their generic drugs when he took those complaints to the fda the response he got back were psychosomatic and they were complaining because when they are switched they look different and he d
Marketplace and outside the dynamic to bring that into the market so they can be sold as well and the famous historian wrote about the basic mechanisms of industrial capitalism and the idea was human activity the things that people did every day for that marketplace made it possible for labor to be sold and that wage labor was possible at all the things that became the hallmark of modernity and in a similar way nature was subordinated to the dynamic and reborn as real estate on land. So fast forward one century at the beginning of the 21st century surveillance capitalism was invented, the insight was we take Human Experience specifically private Human Experience and we can bring that into the marketplace to be sold as behavioral data. We are coming into this space private experience uninvited. We are doing that typically in ways that are secret and designed to evade awareness. We are registering your experience in a variety of ways and then we are translating that into behavioral data
Many of us can ever remember. We know how big the stakes are. I, personally, have been through this myself when my husband got really sick and was in the hospital and was able to see firsthand how horrific this is where you cant stand by your loved ones side and hold her hand and you cant give hogs to the Health Care Workers and they are the ones holding up the phone to their ears. I know we are going to find a way out of this, but to me, the only way we find a way out of this is to make sure we have a functioning democracy. That is why i am so devoted to this issue and all of the things we were talking about before the pandemic from making progress in a big way on climate change. We cannot wait. Doing something about gun safety, racial disparity, economic inequality. We have to move now and the way we do it is with our democracy. That is why we are working so hard to pass our bill that ron and i have been leading, each of us in different ways, for years. That is to make it easier for