Alec Hogg: Why so many are cynical about Big Pharma

"Among the most astonishing things about the Covid pandemic is the manner in which the public has swallowed Big Pharma's message."
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Among the most astonishing things about the Covid pandemic is the manner in which the public has swallowed Big Pharma's message. And, allied to that, the way people who retain healthy scepticism of anything the industry says are cast as ignorant fools. After reading Patrick Radden Keefe's Empire of Pain, a 560 tome that strips away any illusion about Big Pharma's true motives, there can be no doubt that better balance is required.

This is an industry with a long and dodgy record of putting profit before people. So it shouldn't surprise us that many struggle to swallow the recasting of Big Pharma as mankind's saviour. Especially after analysing mortality data of a virus painted as an existential threat to the species.

Empire of Pain chronicles the astonishing story of the modern equivalent of Wild West "snake oil" salesmen, the Sacklers, an American family which went from penniless immigrants to multi billionaires in little over half a century.

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