Episode 3: The Plague of the Profit-Based Biomedical Research System, with Merith Basey of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines

The Plague

Our third podcast of the Plague features an interview with Merith Basey of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines. Merith explains to us how the corporate, profit-based biomedical research system is a plague that distorts the research and development process for life-saving medicines and vaccines. And it's a taxpayer-subsidized plague at that. Merith tells us about practical alternatives to this system that are in place and functioning in some societies, and we discuss one example of a "treatment" for this plague: the "Free the Covid Vaccine" campaign that Merith and I are both working on. Merith then honors her Welsh heritage, and her defiant attitude towards injustice, by reading us a particularly apt Dylan Thomas poem.

Host and Editor: L.M. Bogad: www.lmbogad.com

Music: Jason Montero https://m.soundcloud.com/jamoja, and by my other friend named Jay

To get involved in the Free the Vaccine Campaign: https://freethevaccine.org/

Universities Allied for Essential Medicines: uaem.org

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