(December 16, 2009 at 10:31 pm)Pippy Wrote:Quote:I have no problem at all with pharmaceutical companies being big,
Here is a great article, try to slog through the middle where it shows all the litigation againt dug companies in America recently. It is a long section.
http://www.truthout.org/1213091
If pharmacy was good, why is almost every company facing charges?
You really think calling a 5-year old restless and giving her uppers is healthy?
I know a lot about drugs, and there is almost no case where psychotropic drugs are "good for you".
Drugs are bad, we know that,
-Pip
You are so drawn to the negative pippy, it's quite sad - i have to wonder what happened to made you so cynical.
Everything has a cost, including medicine, but the simple fact is that without the same companies that made those few mistakes we would have no cures for anything at all, leading to a far higher mortality rate than any downside from incompetence and accident in the big pharma.
In context big pharmas are far more beneficial than they are harmful, that is an overall trend for good for our species.
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