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Aug 2022
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Episode 136 - Plenty Of Catfish

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About this episode
A Scottish mother and daughter uncovered a horrifying conspiracy within the pharmaceutical industry A drug company literally being paid to kill the participants in a clinical stem cell trial and the government was in on the cover-up. But because of an ironclad confidentiality clause, participants and their families couldn’t tell ANYONE ANYTHING without facing a 20-year prison sentence.

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