Big Pharma – The Skeptical Libertarian

In Ebola Outbreak, Doctors Appear to Ignore FDA on Experimental Drugs

August 5, 2014

I stopped watching movies for a couple years after seeing Outbreak (1995) in the theatres. What did it was a scene of a character infected with an airborne Ebola-like disease coughing away in a movie theatre – the filmmakers zooming in on the germs as they spread among the audience. Even though Ebola is not … Continued

Big Pharma vs. Big Placebo

March 20, 2014

By Bier

It’s quite common to hear people say that they don’t trust vaccines because “Big Pharma only cares about profits” or other appeals to fear of greed. Never mind that vaccines are just about 3% of US pharmaceutical sales — and so are relatively unimportant to drug companies — let’s see where this logic takes us. If making billions … Continued

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