^^I think no one has said that pharma companies are useless. It is true, they make many useful medicines and vaccines, which have helped and saved millions or billions of people and have raised our standard of living and our life expectancy.
However, this does not mean that they are without blame. I see roughly three big problems with current big pharma:
1)They want to push every medicine they develop to market, even when this medicine doesn’t work that well for its intended purpose, or when the possible side effects are much more severe than the problem that is being treated, as is the case of finasteride.
2)They only want patented medicines to be sold, even when perfectly adequate natural remedies exist. For instance it is often noted that testosterone is a far better treatment for depression than any anti-depressant. But, the testosterone molecule occurs in nature and cannot be patented thus pharma cannot make megabucks out of it. The same goes for other hormones as DHEA, pregnenolone, for vitamins and minerals, for herbal remedies…
3)To maximize their profit, they do not hesitate to add downright harmful ingredients to their medicines. Vaccination is a fantastic technique, but unfortunately the toxic substances aluminium or mercury are added to vaccines as cheap immune adjuvants.
All of this wouldn’t even be such a problem if people where free to inform themselves and to select their medicine of choice. However, nowadays the pharma industry has the power – through their influence in the government, in academics and amongst doctors – to force us to use certain medicines (like vaccines) and to outlaw or restrict others (hormones, herbal supplements).
It is not because they do good things that they cannot do bad things.
However, this does not mean that they are without blame. I see roughly three big problems with current big pharma:
1)They want to push every medicine they develop to market, even when this medicine doesn’t work that well for its intended purpose, or when the possible side effects are much more severe than the problem that is being treated, as is the case of finasteride.
2)They only want patented medicines to be sold, even when perfectly adequate natural remedies exist. For instance it is often noted that testosterone is a far better treatment for depression than any anti-depressant. But, the testosterone molecule occurs in nature and cannot be patented thus pharma cannot make megabucks out of it. The same goes for other hormones as DHEA, pregnenolone, for vitamins and minerals, for herbal remedies…
3)To maximize their profit, they do not hesitate to add downright harmful ingredients to their medicines. Vaccination is a fantastic technique, but unfortunately the toxic substances aluminium or mercury are added to vaccines as cheap immune adjuvants.
All of this wouldn’t even be such a problem if people where free to inform themselves and to select their medicine of choice. However, nowadays the pharma industry has the power – through their influence in the government, in academics and amongst doctors – to force us to use certain medicines (like vaccines) and to outlaw or restrict others (hormones, herbal supplements).
It is not because they do good things that they cannot do bad things.