Astra is the same company that later merged with the British Zeneca group in 1999, so the first half of the Astra-Zeneca name is its direct descendant. At Astra-Syntex, Gøtzsche established a medical department responsible for conducting clinical trials and submitting applications for the registration of new medicines.
Gøtzsche comments in an email interview with Freedom Research:
"My employment in the drug industry when I had been educated as a biologist and knew very little about drugs, opened my eyes quickly to all the fraud I observed in clinical research and marketing. Healthcare is much more corrupt than people think, and industry money goes everywhere, to politicians, medical journals, newspapers, other media, etc."
Comment: They've risen since the lockdowns were eased, which was around the same time the Covid injections were rolled out...
Notably, Japan is one of the countries that has also reported a surge in cancer diagnoses in recent years. And one of Japan's most senior oncologists has tied this, and a variety of other illnesses, to the roll out of the experimental covid injections.
Could it be that this is yet another harm associated with them? It certainly seems to correspond with the damage the injections have been causing: