The pharmaceutical industry's fraudulent research and bought doctors

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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.