It's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

Stand up, stand up.

You've been sitting way too long.

Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan,

although with my co-host David Feldman, who according to Pfizer has been declared 90% ineffective. I was sorry to hear that. Yeah, well I may get a job in the

Biden administration though. And we have the man at the hour, Ralph Nader. Hello, Ralph.

Hello, this is really useful show listeners.

Yeah, and before we get to the body of that show,

we're going to start off today with some commentary about the news about Pfizer and

Moderna, how they're a highly successful COVID-19 vaccine test came in.

And this seems like very positive news, but let's pause for a moment take a closer look.

What do you think, Ralph? Well it was a press release by the two drug companies puffing up

their vaccine without releasing any data and it pushed up Pfizer stock a little bit and then it fell back.

But the physicians at the health research group of a public citizen

criticized it on their website you can go see it it's

pretty brief citizen.org and they criticized it not only because there wasn't any

data behind the puffing 95% assertion, but they didn't distinguish

between moderate cases, serious cases, how much actually prevented hospitalization and fatalities and so take that 95% with a grain of

salt as just advertising puffing by two drug companies. It's unfortunate that most of the media, Steve and David, just swallowed

a whole and kept repeating it and repeating it, repeating it uncritically, even though public

citizens sent their statement out everybody in the media and it didn't make much difference

except it was pointed out in the Wall Street Journal and a couple other publications.

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