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Hello, you're very welcome to Long Reads, a Jacquin podcast where we look in depth

of political topics and thinkers. My name is Daniel Finn, and the features editor here at Jacquin,

and I'll be presenting the show. The COVID-19 pandemic may have been a disaster for humanity,

but it's been a great boon for the world's leading pharmaceutical companies.

Over the last year, CNBC has given pride a place to the COVID vaccine when talking about Pfizer's

quarterly earnings. Pfizer is forecasting $15 billion in revenue from its COVID vaccine this year.

Now it says in terms of the COVID vaccine community, they see $32 billion in 2022 sales.

It's up $3 billion from what they projected last quarter, and that's based on

revenue was $25.7 billion. Analysts had been looking for $23.9 billion. Company reiterating

its full-year revenue forecast of $98 billion to $102 billion in revenue. That's despite

unfavorable impacts from foreign exchange. Our reliance on big farmer for life-saving vaccines has

reminded us how badly we need to understand the links between science, politics, and commercial

interests. For Marxists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, these were some of the most

important questions to be addressed in their work. The cross-fertilization between Marxism and

science had major implications for the development of both. Our guest today is Helena Sheon.

She is an emeritus professor at Dublin City University, and the author of Marxism and the

philosophy of science, a book that traces the history of this encounter.

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