Episode 63 • • 1:13:28 - 1:15:16
63: Save This Polar Bear
Nobel Prize Bribery, AstraZeneca, HPV Vaccine Controversy
AstraZeneca is accused of influencing the Nobel Committee to award the Prize for Medicine to Harald zur Hausen for his work on the HPV virus. The company holds patents for the Gardasil and Cervarix vaccines, leading to allegations that the prize was essentially purchased to validate the pharmaceutical product.