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The Finance Department aligns financial strategy with institutional priorities and policies. “Purdue Pharma controversy,” “criticism,” “philanthropy backlash,” “tainted donors,” organizations that “will not accept further donations from the Sackler family,” “the family’s philanthropy has been characterized as ‘reputation laundering’ from profits from their selling of opiates.” None of this applies to him. The Smithsonian, Harvard, The Met and other institutions have retained Arthur’s name. It is the OxySacklers whose names are being removed from institutions, amidst philanthropy backlash, criticism and controversy, but such topics are not mentioned on the Mortimer and Raymond Wikipedia pages.
Who is behind the concocted campaign to falsely blame Sackler scandals on Arthur?
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DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN AGAINST DR.
ARTHUR M. SACKLER
By JILLIAN SACKLER
March 15, 2022
Arthur M. Sackler: Biography and Family History by Miguel Angel Benavides Lopez, is available on Amazon.com. Based on Arthur’s own writings and original documents, it exposes betrayals by family, friends and institutions and demonstrates that he has been cruelly misrepresented for decades. Readers will discover “The Sackler Family” is not and never was a monolith.
Arthur was a humanitarian whose life was devoted to advancing healthcare, education and culture.
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He collected thousands of objects, many of them masterpieces of museum quality. His expertise in the specialized fields of Science—funding Nobel-Prize-nominated medical research with no thought of monetary return—and Art—creating museum-quality collections from which he did not profit as he never sold a single piece—is denigrated. Meier’s sensational fiction is backwards: Arthur was not ruthless but rigorous, not greedy but generous, not rolling in money but always short of funds, as he helped family and friends, funded his research laboratory, collected art and donated to cultural institutions.
Meier’s histrionic hyperbole concocts a pantomime villain that never was, to illustrate:
” “Already a rich man, he made an emperor’s fortune from the feel-good tranquilizers of the 1960s, Librium and Valium”; “By the early 1950s he was already wealthy, he was making so much money in business…he could subsidize research”; “he cloaked his pursuit of profit and power behind the veil of science and research”; “the promotional gimmicks used by his advertising firm often smacked less of high-minded science than of the handicraft of a huckster”; “bonus payments paid on the volume of pills sold”; “millions of dollars in interest-free loans as advances against future advertising work, money he quickly invested making yet another fortune on the stock market,” “the amount of wealth was massive,” “massive fortune,” “vast empire.”
In reality there was no emperor’s fortune, no golden goose, and not until the 1980s did he “stretch” to invest in the bull Stock Market. As for “vast empire,” his estate received less than $25 million for his nominal one-third share of Purdue Frederick, and without his leadership the Medical Tribune Group lost its value. What power did he have, with no huge wealth, no political clout, no media pals, no control over friends and family, no control over the pharmaceutical industry? He did not control or profit from scientific journals.
His philanthropy in medicine extended to the Arthur M. Sackler Center for Health Communications at Tufts University and the Arthur M. Sackler Sciences Center at Clark University.
All these gifts, made in the 1970s and 80s, were made independently of his brothers and their families. Meier is a hero to Keefe and the New York Times gives Keefe rave reviews—meaningless circular praise. Yet this book has won prizes and Keefe is considered such an expert that he testified on “the Sacklers” before Congress.
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Meier’s entirely false assertion that Arthur “helped pioneer some of the most controversial and troubling practices in medicine: the showering of favors on doctors, the lavish spending on consultants and experts ready to back a drugmaker’s claims, the funding of supposedly independent commercial interest groups, the creation of publications to serve as industry mouthpieces, and the outright exploitation of scientific research for marketing purposes” is currently on Arthur’s Wikipedia page.
He established the Laboratories for Therapeutic Research in 1938. At the time of his death in 1987, Arthur was lauded for his contributions to medical research, medical communications and museums. Media coverage connecting him with the origin of the OxyContin scandal is deliberate disinformation.
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Many of the links on Arthur’s Wikipedia page connect to Keefe’s misbegotten book. He had complete integrity.
Passing judgment on Arthur’s life’s work through the lens of the opioid crisis some 30 years after his death is a gross injustice.
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Jillian Sackler
READERS COMMENTS:
This book is written by a former employee and admirer of Arthur Sackler who considered him a humanitarian and a citizen of the world.
In order to write from Sackler’s point of view, as was his objective, much of the book quotes him directly, from his publications, newsletters, speeches and letters.
Sackler had a love of medicine and a passion for the arts.