The pharmaceutical industry's fraudulent research and bought doctors

[denuseri]

Excellent thread thir!

Wouldn't we all like to see this cast by the main stream prime time media as well?

Better yet wouldn't we like to see someone do something about it.

This is what happens when the medical industry is corperatized and manipulated by outside powers whose primary consern is profit instead of patient care.

[thir]

Excellent thread thir!

Wouldn't we all like to see this cast by the main stream prime time media as well?

Better yet wouldn't we like to see someone do something about it.

This is what happens when the medical industry is corperatized and manipulated by outside powers whose primary consern is profit instead of patient care.

Yes, indeed. It is hard to know what you can trust in terms of medicine. Maybe a reason why so many try to resort to herbs and alternative medicine?

[lucy]

Better yet wouldn't we like to see someone do something about it.

Apparently someone is doing something against it, hence the 2.3 billion fines Pfizer had to pay. If enough is done and whether the right things are done I don't know.

This is what happens when the medical industry is corperatized and manipulated by outside powers whose primary consern is profit instead of patient care.

Bad thing is, if profit isn't their primary concern there won't be any medical industry left in no time at all.

Yes, indeed. It is hard to know what you can trust in terms of medicine. Maybe a reason why so many try to resort to herbs and alternative medicine?

Yeah, like alternative medicine has ever proven to have any effect at all. Alternative medicine is just as big a scam as what pharmaceutical companies are doing.

[leo9]

Apparently someone is doing something against it, hence the 2.3 billion fines Pfizer had to pay. If enough is done and whether the right things are done I don't know.

But the article makes clear that 2.3bn is a slap on the wrist for a corporation that big. A fine only works if it costs more than the profits of breaking the law.

The real solution would be for the regulators to have the power not only to fine but to confiscate profits, as they do with other kinds of criminality. But that's never going to happen while they can buy lawmakers with petty cash, and undermine a President if he threatens their profits; it's a wonder the law has any power at all over them.