EPA Has Been Altering Dangerous Herbicide Data & DC Politicians Bowing Down To Big Pharma

Via America’s Lawyer: The EPA admits to cutting corners during its safety review of Dicamba herbicides under the Trump administration. Plus, pharma giant AbbVie defends its astronomical price hikes of popular prescription drugs including Humira. Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins discuss more.

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The EPA has admitted that they've been altering the data about how dangerous the pesticide Dicamba is for human beings, but they, they won't jump in and do what they need to do right now. Get it off the market.

Yeah.

Look, this, we've said so many times, this is most dysfunctional and it's not just the, look, Dicamba and, and, and Roundup were both, I mean, it was Obama. It was the guy before Obama. It was this administration. So I mean, it's not just, you can't pin this down in saying this is Republican or Democrat issue. The chemical industry owns Congress. They absolutely own Congress. Lay this story out for us.

Yeah. Just to build on that too, I think it goes back to at least that we know of, George H W Bush administration.

Yes, it does, it does.

And everybody after him did the same thing.

That's absolutely right.

But right now the, the scientists, the actual real people who understand what they're doing at the EPA came out and they said, listen, we've been told for a very long time to phony up the data. We have been told to cover up certain things, to omit a lot of things and ultimately we have been pushed to the wayside in favor of the industry's own words.

Right.

You know, their own reports. And so we're real sorry about it. We're not going to let that happen anymore. But in the meantime, this Dicamba three different kinds of it I think on the market.

Yes.

Is going out there being sprayed all over and causing horrific cancers in people all over the country.

Well, for example, the, the Roundup. This is no, actually let me tell you the story, the story behind the story. This Dicamba was the one that they were going to use. Monsanto was going to use mon, Dicamba to begin with, and they concluded that it was too dangerous. So they come out with Roundup. Roundup cause, and understand, they're concluding there's such big problems with it, we got to go Roundup. Roundup causes non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, causes neurological disease, causes cancer. I mean, the EPA is almost a useless entity.

It really is.

I say it, I almost don't want to say almost. They are a useless entity. I had to go war, to war with them up in the Ohio river valley about C8. They've done nothing to help that. It is completely utterly a useless, we may as well not even spend the money on that agency.

Well, and, you know, the, the, the scientists out there have actually said Dicamba and, and glyphosate, Roundup, there's really not a whole world of difference between the two.

No, there's not.

And Dicamba is also linked to these DNA mutations. I mean, we're talking about actually altering who a person is really at this point, horrific cancers. And the EPA says, we're sorry we covered it up for so long, but we swear we won't do it anymore.

Three-headed frogs.

Right.

Drug companies are using the profits from their outrageously inflated, inflated drug prices to fund ads attacking a bill that would get drug prices under control, spending a ton of money here, man. I, they've never spent $450 million in this. I mean this, this kind is the of money going out right now. So they can Jack up prices on things like cancer drugs that are need to live. And they've gone to what, 82% on a cancer drug, just in the last year.

Yeah, they, they, they have, and then of course you have, you know, one of the big ones, one of the blockbuster drugs is Humira. You know, you see, you can't turn on cable TV without seeing an ad for Humira. They've raised the price on that over the last couple of years, 27 different times by 470%.

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