If you are old enough, you'll remember 60 minutes and other investigative reports exposing pharmaceutical company malfeasance, or error. Do you remember the expose in the 80s of Dr. Fauci's crimes? I do.
Do you remember where they all went?
In the Forgotten Side of Medicine, I learned that Mr. Clinton, while President, allowed the pharmaceutical companies to advertise their products. Fast-forward to now, and well, no more challenges in the press. I've read that congresscritters and bureaucrats are cheap, and D.A.s do not cost much either.
A great deal of the harm seems to come just from Big Pharm controlling advertising.
I have a friend who wants Congress to pass a rule that if the congressmen balance the budget...they get twice their income. He thinks that's more than most bribes and might make them less vulnerable to temptation.
"They have an engine called the Press whereby the people are deceived."
That Hideous Strength, C.S. Lewis.
Lewis really thsaw things as they are.
> In Soviet Russia, at least everyone knew that Pravda was a government-run propaganda outlet.
In Soviet Russia even if one did, it wasn't safe to openly say so.
That is very true.
If you are old enough, you'll remember 60 minutes and other investigative reports exposing pharmaceutical company malfeasance, or error. Do you remember the expose in the 80s of Dr. Fauci's crimes? I do.
Do you remember where they all went?
In the Forgotten Side of Medicine, I learned that Mr. Clinton, while President, allowed the pharmaceutical companies to advertise their products. Fast-forward to now, and well, no more challenges in the press. I've read that congresscritters and bureaucrats are cheap, and D.A.s do not cost much either.
And yet, to paraphrase Mrs. Hoyt, in the end we've won, they've lost. And may well be losing as we write: https://wilderwealthywise.com/winning-starts-with-belief-that-winning-is-possible/
A great deal of the harm seems to come just from Big Pharm controlling advertising.
I have a friend who wants Congress to pass a rule that if the congressmen balance the budget...they get twice their income. He thinks that's more than most bribes and might make them less vulnerable to temptation.
I agree.
Remove some of the perverse incentives.