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Originally Posted by West Karma
I see your point Cowboy - and I will never underestimate the progress mankind has made in several different areas including medicine. That being said, it is my opinion the the pharmacutical industry (like many others) are focused not so much on mankind, rather than the billions they are making on getting some of these wonder drugs to the market.
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And you think natural remedies like companies selling homeopath treatments are not looking to make money?? you realize the big placebo industry is HUGE, not big pharma huge but still massive.
There is also nothing unnatural or nasty about lab made drugs, take aspirin for example it was discovered from a plant, now you could go the natural route and eat this nasty plant, something like half a pound of leaves or take 1 pill that has it in handy small easily digestible form.
Pills are just concentrated or formulated ways to get the stuff nature gave us so why fear that, or why even look down upon it.
Yes there is too much profit and of course these companies have areas which I worry deeply about like psych drugs which are something we should be weary of. But thats their job, make drugs to help with human illness, their research isn't cures, its the band aids.
Thats why we don't rely on big pharma for all our research
Modern medicine is the greatest thing in human history, we have gone from living 30-40 years to 80-100 years in short time. We have not only extended our life times, but the quality of life for those afflicted with all kinds of illnesses.
Now that we are at this great point in our history people are starting to attack the very thing that gives us such a great quality of life. Mind you there are certainly drugs we can argue are no good and deserve tougher scrutiny.. But as a whole the amount of negativity towards pharmaceuticals is utterly nonsense.