Big Pharma is a blight on humanity:
First of all, her point is not that Pharma is a blight to humanity. It Seems to be that there are certain drug classes that can be harmful to some or many patients when improperly prescribed. Perhaps then what we have is doctors being a blight on humanity? While our medications can be quite expensive, many of us have conditions that would kill or a cripple us without the treatments afforded us by that industry. I have an auto immune disorder which would first cripple me and then kill me where not for the biologic therapy that I take. Like any industry, the pharmaceutical industry does much good and some bad. I am grateful for their innovations and I am amazed at the number of lives that I have seen changed for the better and saved by many of these new therapies.
I am glad you have the medicine they provide. They do some good but they do more bad IMO. We have an opioid crisis in this country as a direct result of their greed. We have kids being put on their poison drugs long term for profit when they were never designed to be long term solutions and in many cases do more harm then good. I am not saying western medicine is a blight but I am saying that Big Pharma is. They are not exactly the same thing.
James,why do you blame only the maker of the products and not the doctors who prescribe these drugs? You make no mention of doctors who over prescribe Ritalin like drugs, anti depressants, pain pills, antibiotics and many other classes of drugs. Some do it out of ignorance, some out of greed, but you blame the Pharma companies. Odd.