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April 14, 2020

PHARMA IN 60 SECONDS: Episode 2: The Wonder Drug

This week is about how penicillin revolutionized the drug industry


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Published on April 14, 2020 06:36

PHARMA IN 60 SECONDS: Episode 1: The Poison Squad

A weekly one-minute video short about different topics from Gerald Posner's PHARMA; Greed, Lies and the Poisoning of America.

Episode 1 is about Harvey Washington Wiley and his Poison Squad in the effort to get America's first law regulating drugs



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Published on April 14, 2020 06:34

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December 19, 2019

PHARMA Greed, Lies and the Poisoning of America

Trailer for my upcoming book, PHARMA    

4 years of research into  the history of the American drug industry as well as what made the Sacklers the Sacklers. There are some explosive disclosures from govt and private archives. 



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Published on December 19, 2019 12:39

July 30, 2019

July 11, 2019

My take on Perot and Trunp

My OpEd in today’s @Newsweek about the similarities and differences between Perot and Trump. 



“THE ROSS PEROT I KNEW WAS A BILLIONAIRE POPULIST, BUT HE WAS NO DONALD TRUMP | OPINION

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1BWX3Cl8hmi2fKyohpe02bQpY5DUOBd8U


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Published on July 11, 2019 08:46

March 14, 2019

From the NY Times March 13, 2019 obituary of Edda Goering...





From the NY Times March 13, 2019 obituary of Edda Goering.“My only memories of him are such loving ones,” she told Mr. Posner in a rare interview, “I cannot see him any other way.”

Edda Goering had a deserved reputation for not giving press interviews, much less ones that tried to get her to talk about her feelings about her infamous father. It took months of back and forth letters before she agreed to finally talk to me in 1990. I traveled to Munich and we met in her small apartment. After se...
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Published on March 14, 2019 05:54

December 19, 2018

Dan Rather and Gerald Posner analyze the shots that killed JFK

JFK assassination: was there enough time for one assassin to fire three shots?

Dan Rather and I answer that in this ten-minute segment from 1993's Emmy award winning CBS Reports "Who Killed JFK? The Final Chapter."

It was cutting-edge 25 years ago



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Published on December 19, 2018 05:16