Therefore, the episode of Folkeopplysningen disappeared from NRK. Actually.
A Facebook post, which has received close to 900 shares, stated:
This program was removed by NRK a few days ago. And as a friend of mine wrote; we do not wonder why!
Below the comment is a two-minute long video clip from an episode of Folkeopplysningen. Host Andreas Wahl interviews the Danish doctor and scientist Peter C. Götzsche.
Critical of the pharmaceutical industry
Götzsche is former director of the Nordic Cochrane Center at Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen, Denmark.
He is one of the founders of the non-profit organization Cochrane collaboration, which aims to systematize results from health research. The organization has created a database that players and researchers can use to assess how well documented a type of treatment is.
Götzsche is known for going against the pharmaceutical industry. Among other things, he has written the book «Lethal medicine and organized crime – how the pharmaceutical industry has corrupted the health care system ».
In the video clip, host Andreas Wahl asks if we can rely on research as the pharmaceutical industry. Then Götzsche answers:
No, we can not, and the reason is obvious. It controls itself. It can make a lot of money by embellishing results.
Deleted post
Later in the video clip, the host says that one can see a pattern when it comes to medications.
When a drug comes on the market, it has been through extensive testing, showing high efficacy and has had side effects. But when a few years go by and the drug is researched by people who have not produced it, some of the effect disappears. And sometimes it turns out not to work and it has turned up serious side effects.
Faktisk.no has been in contact with people who wrote posts about the NRK episode. The person in question does not want to give a comment and delete the post after Faktisk.no got in touch.
Before the post was deleted, it was shared over 860 times. Over 80 people commented during the post. Among other things, one writes:
Can we trust the research the pharmaceutical industry is doing? No, we can not! It controls itself ………. !!! It was a good and enlightening answer in these vaccination times …… ..!
Linked to the pandemic
Someone who has chosen to delete the post writes:
This did not pass into Nrk’s archive anymore considering the last 2 years and today’s situation. They had probably forgotten that they had it, but now it has been removed, pooh … Surprised?
In the comments field, there are also several who write that this must be because NRK no longer has the right to the program.
It is pointed out that what is said is not a secret considering that the program has been out for a year. Then the person who posted the post answers that it is partly NRK’s fault that so many young people have taken the coronary vaccine:
For seasons had to be removed
The program about the pharmaceutical industry was broadcast on NRK in 2014, in season 2 of Folkeopplysningen. I the net player to NRK, we see that the whole season is gone, and not just the current program. Season 1 has also been removed.
It’s the production company Teddy TVand not NRK itself, which produces Public Information.
Jan Egil Ådland is project editor for external content at NRK. He writes in an e-mail to Faktisk.no that the first seasons of Folkeopplysningen have been removed because NRK no longer has the rights to show the episodes. They only have the rights for a certain period.
– In the case of the first seasons of Folkeopplysningen, the license period is seven years. Thus, they had to be removed from the player after that, he explains.
– It is expensive for NRK to expand the rights, but we are working on the case. All episodes of Folkeopplysningen should definitely be available to our audience.
Unlimited rights on new seasons
Ådland says that on the positive side, NRK has unlimited rights for the latest seasons of Folkeopplysningen. He thinks it’s a shame that people have misunderstood why the eight-year-old program has been removed from the online player.
– I understand that this with TV dishes is a little difficult to understand for people who do not work with it. Regardless, I can assure everyone who may be in doubt that it is not about censorship of any kind, says Ådland.
– And to those who may fall for the temptation and believe that this is a form of conspiracy, I can recommend the Folkeopplysningen episode «The conspiracy»From 2019.