<h2>Why didn't my doctor know?</h2>You trusted your doctor when s/he told you that the COVID-19 vaccine was safe and effective and that you should take it without question, just like you trusted your doctor and took the annual flu shot, and all the other drugs you've been prescribed. He must know since he went to medical school and did a grueling residency and perhaps even a fellowship or two. &nbsp;But now, after seeing that the COVID-19 vaccine isn't really safe and effective as claimed and, perhaps having caught COVID anyway, or even being vaccine injured, you are wondering how this all happened. Why didn't your doctor know?Your doctor couldn't know because s/he's under the influence of Big Pharma. It turns out that most of the information doctors get (or don't get) about medication comes straight from the pharmaceutical companies, that are often “less than honest” about the medications they manufacture and sell. That started when your doctor was a medical school student and continues till today.<h2>1. Pharmaceutical companies hook students in medical school</h2>Pharmaceutical companies know how valuable doctors are to their bottom line. After all, doctors are the ones who “sell” their drugs to patients. Therefore, the companies work hard to become part of med students' lives, so that they see them as an ally and a natural part of their profession.&nbsp;In an opinion piece titled, “<a href="https://in-training.org/drugged-greed-pharmaceutical-industrys-role-us-medical-education-10639" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Pharmaceutical Industry’s Role in U.S. Medical Education</a>” by Rijul Kshirsagar and Priscilla Vu at University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, they explain how this is done and the effect it has on their future abilities to practice medicine properly:<blockquote>Medical students' exposure to pharmaceutical marketing begins early, growing in frequency throughout their training. Students receive gifts such as free meals, textbooks, pocket texts, small trinkets and even drug samples. Forty to 100 percent of medical students report exposure to the pharmaceutical industry…As medical students are increasingly subjected to pharmaceutical marketing throughout their education, their skepticism towards the practices of the pharmaceutical industry gradually diminishes. Multiple studies report a relationship between exposure to the pharmaceutical industry and positive attitudes about industry interactions. As students' exposure to the pharmaceutical industry increases, their ability to determine industry bias decreases. In losing their ability to detect bias and analyze pharmaceutical marketing statements objectively, medical students hinder their future ability to practice evidence-based medicine. (Emphasis added.)</blockquote>In fact, pharma's “takeover” of medical school education is so pervasive and insidious that Dr. Elia Abi-Jaoude, a psychiatrist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, who fought against pharma providing his medical textbooks, still wonders today about some of the things he was taught:<blockquote>“The truth is, it’s hard to disentangle medical education from whatever the prevailing culture is in medicine, including ways of thinking or beliefs of the day about diagnosis or treatment,” he says.“And currently, the pharmaceutical and medical device industries continue to have much influence over the shaping of such beliefs.” (Emphasis added.)</blockquote><h2>2. Doctors manipulated and used to increase drug sales</h2>Once out of medical school and having been duly primed, doctors become middlemen between the drug companies and their patients. Here's what happens then:a. Drug reps purposely <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/5702980/how-drug-reps-pitch-doctors/">manipulate doctors</a>Drug reps visit doctors in their offices to “educate” them about their company’s products, emphasizing the benefits but speak very little or not at all about the negative effects. <a href="https://www.medicaldaily.com/doctors-dont-know-side-effects-drugs-they-prescribe-pharma-reps-blame-246316">This study shows</a> that doctors know very little about the adverse effects of the drugs they prescribe. This is all the more disturbing since doctors are more likely to prescribe the drugs that drug reps promote.Watch as this former drug rep explains how she was taught to manipulate doctors to sell them on her company’s drugs.<div class="raw-html-embed"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kOW8LNU2hFE" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div>b. Doctors are <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/doctors-prescribe-more-of-a-drug-if-they-receive-money-from-a-pharma-company-tied-to-it">more likely to prescribe a drug</a> if they get paid from the pharmaceutical company tied to it. This can be in the form of payment for delivering promotional talks, consulting, or receiving company sponsored meals and travel.c. Drug companies <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-drugs-are-doctors-paid-the-most-to-promote-2015-1?op=1">pay doctors to promote</a> some of their most unremarkable drugs.Doctors need to wonder about the veracity of drug reps and patients need to wonder about how their doctors are making prescribing decisions.<h2>3. Negative effects of drugs trials not disclosed&nbsp;</h2>&nbsp;Most negative drug trials are never published, so your doctor many never know if a problem exists. Dr. Ben Goldacre explains how publishing bias assures that most negative drug trials are withheld from doctors and the public, to the patients’ detriment.<div class="raw-html-embed"><iframe width="1536" height="726" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RKmxL8VYy0M" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>4. Drug company exec - most drugs don’t work for most people</h2>Surprising and troubling is this admission made by a pharma executive. In an article “<a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/glaxo-chief-our-drugs-do-not-work-on-most-patients-5508670.html">Glaxo chief: Our drugs do not work on most patients</a>”, Steve Connor, Science Editor for the Independent, quoted worldwide vice-president of genetics at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Allen Roses, as saying:<blockquote>… fewer than half of the patients prescribed some of the most expensive drugs actually derived any benefit from them.</blockquote>Connor further wrote that:&nbsp;<blockquote>[i]t is an open secret within the drugs industry that most of its products are ineffective in most patients but this is the first time that such a senior drugs boss has gone public.&nbsp;</blockquote>Roses, an academic geneticist, ascribed the lack of benefit experienced by many patients to be a result of their genetic makeup. He believed that simple genetic testing could mitigate the problem.<blockquote>The idea is to identify "responders" - people who benefit from the drug - with a simple and cheap genetic test that can be used to eliminate those non-responders who might benefit from another drug.</blockquote>Does your doctor realize that much of what he's prescribing for his patients may be of no value to them?&nbsp;What does that do to the practice of medicine? How does that make you feel?<h2>5. Profits put before patients</h2>The genetic testing and targeting of drugs that Roses was excited about, flies in the face of the drug company’s purpose - to provide the most value possible for its shareholders. This means that profit, not the patient, is their first priority. &nbsp;As Connor explained:<blockquote>This [identifying non-responders] goes against a marketing culture within the industry that has relied on selling as many drugs as possible to the widest number of patients - a culture that has made GSK one of the most profitable pharmaceuticals companies, but which has also meant that most of its drugs are at best useless, and even possibly dangerous, for many patients.</blockquote><h2>6. Pharmaceutical companies market drugs they know are dangerous&nbsp;</h2>When the company's bottom line is more important than people, safety doesn't matter and fines are merely a cost of doing business. Here are some examples:<ul><li>Merck, the manufacturer of Vioxx, knew the drug <a href="https://www.npr.org/2007/11/10/5470430/timeline-the-rise-and-fall-of-vioxx">caused heart attacks and death</a>, yet hid this information from doctors and the public for many years. Merck agreed to pay $950 million to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/business/merck-agrees-to-pay-950-million-in-vioxx-case.html">settle the criminal charges</a> to which the company had pled guilty.</li></ul><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/merck-created-hit-list-to-destroy-neutralize-or-discredit-dissenting-doctors/">Email records</a> also showed that&nbsp;<blockquote>Merck made a "hit list" of doctors who criticized Vioxx, according to testimony in a Vioxx class action case in Australia. The list, emailed between Merck employees, contained doctors' names with the labels "neutralise," "neutralised" or "discredit" next to them.</blockquote><ul><li>Johnson &amp; Johnson, makers of Johnson’s baby powder, knew for decades that <a href="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/johnsonandjohnson-cancer/">their baby powder was carcinogenic</a> and did nothing.</li></ul><blockquote>… internal documents examined by Reuters show that the company's powder was sometimes tainted with carcinogenic asbestos and that J&amp;J kept that information from regulators and the public.</blockquote><ul><li>in 2009, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-largest-health-care-fraud-settlement-its-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Pfizer was ordered to pay $2.3 billion</a>, which was, at the time, the largest health care fraud settlement in the history of the US Justice Department,&nbsp;</li></ul><blockquote>&nbsp;Pfizer promoted the sale of Bextra for several uses and dosages that the FDA specifically declined to approve due to safety concerns.&nbsp;… the company illegally promoted four drugs – Bextra; Geodon, an anti-psychotic drug; Zyvox, an antibiotic; and Lyrica, an anti-epileptic drug – and caused false claims to be submitted to government health care programs for uses that were not medically accepted indications and therefore not covered by those programs.&nbsp;</blockquote>Learn more <a href="https://www.pharmaceuticalprocessingworld.com/gsk-pfizer-and-jj-among-the-most-fined-drug-companies-according-to-study/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a> and <a href="https://www.enjuris.com/blog/resources/largest-pharmaceutical-settlements-lawsuits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>.<h2>Our responsibility</h2>The insinuation of Big Pharma into medical school education and then into doctors' practice of medicine is an international cause of great concern.&nbsp;“Medicine and the Involvement of the Pharmaceutical Industry”, is a 2019 policy document by the Belgian Medical Students' Association. In the introduction to their Policy Statement, section 1.1, they state:<blockquote>There are three main concerns that can be distinguished from each other. Firstly, there is a risk that drug promotion influences the health actors’ decisions. And indeed, no less than 60% of the worldwide marketing budget is invested in drug advertisements. Even though most healthcare professionals are convinced that they are not influenced by drug promotion, results of review studies prove the opposite. Secondly, due to the difference in focus, there is a possibility that the interaction between the pharmaceutical firms and healthcare professionals gives prominence to the commercial part, while the quality of care to the patient and research is lost. The last main concern is that investing money by the pharmaceutical industry into research can lead to distortions in scientific evidence. About 70% of a research budget comes from pharmacy, which means that favorable results are important to them. [1]</blockquote>They want to tackle, as stated in section 1.2 of the policy statement, “the potential unhealthy relationship between the medical field and the pharmaceutical firms.”&nbsp;&nbsp;In a 2020 opinion piece in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) titled, “<a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/09/11/conflict-of-interest-in-medicine-how-medical-students-can-become-catalysts-for-change/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Conflict of interest in medicine: how medical students can become catalysts for change</a>,” Danish public health physician Alice Fabbri, speaks of her own experience as a medical student when she discovered that the drug companies were influencing her profession.<blockquote>I was a fifth year medical student when I attended an elective seminar at my university in Italy about “Conflict of interest in the medical profession.” The speaker described several examples of the strategies the pharmaceutical industry uses to influence policies, research, and professional practice. It was just a two hour event, but for me it was a turning point. During my clinical rotations in the following days, I started to notice the presence of pharmaceutical companies in the everyday life of health professionals—from the contact with sales representatives, to the sponsored education materials, to the pens, notebooks, and other gifts that find their way into the doctors’ office. Until that moment, these practices were completely normal to me. During my medical training no one had ever told me to question them, or told me about the effect of industry influence on healthcare.&nbsp;</blockquote>Doctors are the products of these medical schools and the pharma influence which follows them throughout their medical careers. To get the best possible care, patients must actively voice disapproval and discourage doctors from receiving drug reps to their offices, from receiving any gifts or forms of remuneration from drug companies, and even from accepting their samples.&nbsp;There is no reason for doctors to rely on drug reps for information about any drugs and/or for instructions on prescribing. The information is out there, both the good and the bad. If their patients can find it, so can they.&nbsp;Don't be afraid to question your doctors to make sure that they are not diagnosing and prescribing while “under the influence." 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<h2>Move over book burning, hello de-platforming?</h2>Closed out of your Facebook or Instagram account? Maybe your website suddenly disappeared, or your YouTube channel was demonetized or deleted? Perhaps you lost access to thousands of hours of posts and videos you produced, and your years of work were gone in an instant? That's de-platforming; the modern version of book burning, a “punishment” for going against the mainstream narrative. And, the censorship doesn't stop with social media, it includes PayPal accounts and more.<h3>Getting up again</h3>How do individuals who went afoul of the globalists, who didn't keep quiet and let others do their thinking for them, respond when they find themselves de-platformed by social media companies and other services? Here's what London Real's Brian Rose, Americas Frontline Doctor founder Dr. Simone Gold, and independent researcher James Roguski did to pick themselves up and continue their work despite the heavy-handed censorship they experienced.Brian RoseWhen London Real YouTuber Brian Rose publicly began trying to understand COVID-19 and its countermeasures, he soon found his entire life seemingly deleted from the internet by the social media giants.&nbsp;Not only did he lose all his years of work, amounting to thousands of videos which he had uploaded to the internet. He also lost access to his Paypal account, and more, because in his search for the truth about the pandemic; his counter-narrative interviews with David Icke were too dangerous for the globalists to allow. &nbsp;In his below documentary, Rose&nbsp;recounts his experiences and how he ultimately started a channel of his own. He explains that he was wholly unprepared for what happened on May 3, 2020, even though he knew that many would want to stop the interview (@about 3:36):<blockquote>Over the past few weeks, our entire world has been transformed. Everything we took for granted has now been taken away and our freedoms have been replaced with fear. All those rights we fought centuries for have been handed over without a second thought.&nbsp;We all process fear in different ways. I cope by immersing myself in my work and today my job is to ask questions. One million people will be watching and they all want answers.&nbsp;Countless others are trying to stop this from happening. At any moment they can walk through that door or lock this broadcast. I'm scared but I don't know what else to do. I prepared my whole life for a moment like This. But nothing would prepare me for what happened next. . .</blockquote>&nbsp;<div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">WATCH THE MOVIE THAT YouTube DOES NOT Want YOU TO SEE (and SHARE IT Far And Wide ) <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LondonReal?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LondonReal</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WeWillNotBeSilenced?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WeWillNotBeSilenced</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StopCensorship?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#StopCensorship</a> <a href="https://t.co/txcVpjPDWz">https://t.co/txcVpjPDWz</a>— Brian Rose, Founder &amp; Host of London Real (@LondonRealTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/LondonRealTV/status/1796285778517221575?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 30, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>&nbsp;Dr. Simone GoldDr. Simone Gold, founder of <a href="https://www.aflds.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">America's Frontline Doctors</a>, was one of the first doctors to understand that how she was being told to treat COVID patients wasn't normal. Very alarmed at what was taking place she, along with other doctors, held the “<a href="https://www.whitecoatsummit.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">White Coat Summit</a>” on July 27, 2020, as well as a press conference on the Supreme Court steps. As she tweeted below, the press conference went viral, garnering millions of views before Big Tech and Big Media took the video down.She concluded by explaining their purpose and the result:<blockquote>Our fight was to show America the propaganda vs the truth, and then we were censored.</blockquote>&nbsp;<div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Our press conference in front of the Supreme Court on July 27th, 2020 was a turning point in the fight against COVID Tyranny. After 20 million views in 8 hours, Big Tech colluded to wipe the video from online platforms. We knew in this moment that we would win the fight. <a href="https://t.co/9CP0Ogpnfp">pic.twitter.com/9CP0Ogpnfp</a>— Dr. Simone Gold (@drsimonegold) <a href="https://twitter.com/drsimonegold/status/1610416861723729921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>Dr. Gold continues to <a href="https://aflds.org/about-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">advance</a> the mission of America's Frontline Doctors, to protect medical freedom and civil liberties.'James RoguskiIndependent researcher James Roguski who, <a href="http://jamesroguski.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">according</a> to his website, has been calling out lies and propaganda for decades, found years of work gone when the company that hosted most of his websites terminated his account for what they said were “terms of service” violations. It did not deter him from continuing his work, either.<blockquote>They deleted many of my websites, but they ignited my passion to burn even brighter. I now have most of my work on Substack.&nbsp;</blockquote>Roguski is interested in building a holistic alternative to the WHO and <a href="https://jamesroguski.substack.com/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">recruits</a> others to join him.<blockquote>The old system is crumbling, and I intend to help speed its demise, but we must build its replacement quickly.If you are fed up with the government, hospital, medical, pharmaceutical, media, industrial complex and would like to help , then feel free to contact me directly anytime.</blockquote>&nbsp;The information contained in this article is for educational and information purposes only and is not intended as health, medical, financial or legal advice. Always consult a physician, lawyer or other qualified professional regarding any questions you may have about a medical condition, health objectives, or legal issues.&nbsp;Related articles:<ul><li><a href="https://frontline.news/post/covid-sceptics-won-out-globalists-fear-an-increasingly-disbelieving-public" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">'COVID skeptics won out' — Globalists fear an increasingly disbelieving public</a></li><li><a href="https://frontline.news/post/colorado-governor-signs-off-on-bill-establishing-state-ministry-of-truth-students-atarget-of-new-law">Colorado governor signs off on bill establishing state 'ministry of truth'? Students a target of new law</a></li></ul>

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How three individuals got up again after being de-platformed

Who's afraid of Big Bad Tech? 

A British vigilante group known as the “Blade Runners” is receiving widespread support from British taxpayers as it continues to destroy climate surveillance cameras across London.<h2>The ULEZ mandate</h2>By order of London Mayor Sadiq Khan, the city is peppered with ultra-low emission zones (ULEZs), areas accessible only to low-emission vehicles. Cars that do not meet the city’s environmental standards are charged £12.50 ($16) for entering the ULEZ. Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras positioned around the zones read license plates and check them against the vehicles’ make and model in real time. If a vehicle does not meet the environmental threshold, a fine is levied against the car owner.&nbsp;The ULEZ climate mandate has drawn heavy&nbsp;<a href="https://frontline.news/post/london-hundreds-protest-against-climate-mandates">protests</a> from residents, including&nbsp;<a href="https://frontline.news/post/british-veteran-launches-hunger-strike-as-unrest-grows-over-climate-mandates">hunger strikes</a> and refusals to pay fines. Taxpayers have also taken to disabling the ANPR surveillance cameras which Transport for London (TfL), the city’s transportation department, said will be used both for climate and law enforcement.<h2>Taxpayers cheer the ‘Blade Runners’</h2>Since the climate restrictions were expanded last year, the Blade Runners have taken to disabling and destroying hundreds of cameras. Between April and September 2023, Metropolitan Police recorded 200 reports of cameras being stolen and 595 reports of cameras being vandalized.TfL began placing black boxes around ULEZ camera wirings to protect them from being cut, but taxpayers found other ways to disable the cameras — like removing them completely.<div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"> MUST SEE: Blade Runners topple THREE ULEZ cameras in a coordinated strike… The people are fighting back! <a href="https://t.co/Yvr2Xr7Lun">pic.twitter.com/Yvr2Xr7Lun</a>— David Morgan #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) <a href="https://twitter.com/david_r_morgan/status/1802726912050995623?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 17, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>In response, the city&nbsp;<a href="https://frontline.news/post/london-taxpayers-attack-surveillance-vans-in-continued-revolt">deployed</a> mobile surveillance vans mounted with ANPR cameras across London in the hopes of evading attacks, but Blade Runners soon began targeting those as well. Some surveillance vans have been spotted covered in graffiti with their tires slashed, while others have been completely covered in tarp.Last month, 21 cameras were destroyed in the hours after Sadiq Khan was re-elected mayor of London, the&nbsp;Daily Mail&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13538797/Moment-Blade-Runner-uses-power-tool-cut-ULEZ-camera-traffic-light-latest-attack-Sadiq-Khans-hated-scheme.html">reported</a>. Last weekend, Blade Runners used power tools to topple a ULEZ camera and traffic lights to the delight of some fellow taxpayers. In a video that was posted to social media, passing cars can be heard honking in support.The video received over 37,000 likes. Comments on the post were largely supportive, with users writing that, “When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty,” and “Fair play to them, it's a complete scam that does nothing.”Blade Runner Matt Hardy told the&nbsp;Daily Mail&nbsp;that the Blade Runners are “people pissed off about the tyranny reigning over us and getting out and doing things about it – real votes, real boys here.”<h2>‘These cameras are not about the climate. They are about control’</h2>British actor and influencer Laurence Fox said this week he was just given back his electronic devices by police after being arrested earlier this year for cheering on the Blade Runners:<blockquote>These cameras are not about the climate. They are about control. They are the primary infrastructure for all sorts of things that ideologues like the midget dictator [Sadiq Khan] would like to impose upon us.I can now finally say the word ‘Bladerunners’ again. One of the ridiculous restrictions on free speech imposed by the police.It’s a dreadful shame to see so many of these cameras dying suddenly. I’m not at all thrilled about it. Just because I am smiling like a Cheshire Cat, it doesn’t mean that I am over the moon that these scameras continue to topple in high winds.&nbsp;Vive la résistance!</blockquote><div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">POLICE UPDATE Following 6 coppers bursting into my house earlier this year to arrest me for saying how pleased I was that the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ULEZ?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ULEZ</a> scam was meeting such robust resistance, this morning the <a href="https://twitter.com/metpoliceuk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@metpoliceuk</a> were ordered by the magistrate to hand back all my devices, including my…— Laurence Fox (@LozzaFox) <a href="https://twitter.com/LozzaFox/status/1803030521095622912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div> &nbsp;

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Climate Change

‘Pissed off about the tyranny reigning over us’

British taxpayers cheer vigilante group destroying climate cams

Fisker is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the electric vehicle (EV) company announced Tuesday.<h2>‘Like other companies in the electric vehicle industry’</h2>“Fisker has made incredible progress since our founding, bringing the Ocean SUV to market twice as fast as expected in the auto industry and making good on our promises to deliver the most sustainable vehicle in the world,” a spokesperson <a href="https://assets.ctfassets.net/cghen8gr8e1n/6W19OiEBJDVIFVEmo4feHA/df902c5cb2b067251a300efb0b35f611/Fisker-Filing-FINAL.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">said</a>.The California-based company added it is not the only EV maker that has been struggling to stay in business.“We are proud of our achievements, and we have put thousands of Fisker Ocean SUVs in customers’ hands in both North American [sic] and Europe. But like other companies in the electric vehicle industry, we have faced various market and macroeconomic headwinds that have impacted our ability to operate efficiently. After evaluating all options for our business, we determined that proceeding with a sale of our assets under Chapter 11 is the most viable path forward for the company.”Fisker’s collapse is the latest indication that the EV industry is folding due to sinking demand. Other EV industry players are also cutting their losses as they jump ship.<h2>Hertz</h2>In March, Hertz CEO Stephen Scherr&nbsp;<a href="https://www.motorfinanceonline.com/news/hertz-ceo-resigns-amid-ev-investment-setback/#:~:text=Scherr's%20departure%20coincides%20with%20Hertz's,electric%20vehicle%20(EV)%20rentals">resigned</a> after his bet on EVs cost the car rental giant its biggest quarterly loss since 2020. Hertz had been praised by the Biden administration for its ambition to convert 25% of its fleet to EVs by the end of this year. In January, however, the company announced it would instead be selling its 20,000 EVs — including Teslas — at heavily discounted prices and replacing them with gas-powered cars.<h2>Mercedes-Benz</h2>Mercedes-Benz also recently had to give up its ambition to only sell electric cars by 2030. Instead, EVs are expected to make up only 50% of the German carmaker’s sales over the next decade.<h2>Apple</h2>In February, Apple abandoned its multi-billion dollar effort to create an electric car. Despite being a decade in the works and employing 2,000 people, Project Titan was axed due to falling consumer demand.<h2>Aston Martin</h2>A lack of consumer demand is also partly to blame for Aston Martin&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13138123/Aston-Martin-puts-brakes-new-electric-supercar-2026-bosses-say-drivers-want-engines-throaty-roar.html">placing</a> its battery-operated “supercar” on hold until 2026.“Demand, certainly at an Aston Martin price point, is not what we thought it was going to be two years ago,” said Aston Martin Executive Chairman Lawrence Stroll.&nbsp;<h2>Ford</h2>In December, Ford slashed production of its flagship EV at its assembly plant in Dearborn, Michigan by half. The automaker cut the monthly production quote for the all-electric F-150 Lightning pickup truck from 3,200 units to 1,600 units per month.<h2>Biden administration continues to force EV production</h2>Nevertheless, the Biden administration in March issued new climate mandates aimed at forcing more EV production. The new rules from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) contain tight emissions standards that will&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/epa-electric-vehicles-emissions-limits-climate-biden-e6d581324af51294048df24269b5d20a">require</a> 56% of new vehicle sales to be fully electric by 2032, with an additional 13% required to be hybrids.

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