Medical director of Pfizer UK, Dr Berkeley Phillips tweeted a promotion of the Pfizer mRNA product back in November 2020. The promotion of an unlicensed medicine or unauthorised indication is a criminal offence and can receive a penalty of a fine or imprisonment for up to two years. The tweet also breached the code of practice set out by the Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority (PMCPA), according to Dr Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson. However, Pfizer’s penalty was a fine of just £34,800 which equates to 0.00005% of Pfizer’s 2021 revenues.

This is hardly a surprise to most of us who have knowledge of Pfizer’s’ ‘previous.’ We are therefore “wiser to pfizer” and know that it is not unusual for Pfizer to receive a penalty for their unethical, criminal practices that hardly even equate to a slap on the wrist for the pharmaceutical giant.

However, this latest fine is much smaller than other, larger fines that have been issued to them over the years but, they didn’t serve as a deterrent to them and their continuation of what has been judged as their “criminal practices” an almost laughable 34,800 pounds is certainly not going to either.

Since 2009, Pfizer has been found guilty of numerous offences and fraudulent practices including: