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"Mr President, today’s debate on the strategy against an avian influenza pandemic is a good opportunity to ask questions both about where the responsibility lies for public health, which is one of the European Union’s main priorities, and about security and truth in public life.
We must ask ourselves whether predictions asserting that the disease will cause massive loss of life, and claim between 50 and 150 million victims, are based on scientific knowledge, or are instead the result of an economy overheated by industry, and in particular by the insatiable pharmaceutical companies, which suffer losses if their drugs are not used.
Conflicting opinions, a quasi-conspiracy of silence and a lack of reliable scientific data all point to such conclusions. This would amount to entirely despicable and truly diabolic manipulation, aimed at provoking panic and chaos instead of creating a feeling of security and public solidarity. The latter should be defining features of large communities whose goal is to achieve noble goals, such as those to be found in countless EU documents. Further key questions surround the reasons for the spread of the epidemic."@en1
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