It's hard to know what to think in regards to big pharma. One conclusion I've come to in recent years is that the EPA should have the funds to actually do the testing themselves (as opposed to receiving results from the automotive manufacturers for example), and so should the FDA. This idea that companies won't submit doctored results to these standards we provide as a nation is laughably false, clearly.<p>Another thing is that <i>somebody needs to go to jail</i>. And it should be from the top of the chain to the bottom. If you're a sales rep dealing with pamphlets which you've explicitly been told can't be left out in case of regulators, your options should be "whistle blow" or be held accountable along with the rest of that chain.<p>In a country with over two million people in jail you'd think we could nail one of these bastards. It's just so gross.<p>Then there's all the issues with the US Taxpayer directly funding vast amounts of the research that goes into these pharmaceuticals and not receiving anything in return (except for exorbitant unregulated health care costs). The taxpayers need to benefit from the corporate profits which come from taxpayer funded research.<p>I'm not exactly sure what to think about all the advertisements for drugs on our tvs and to our doctors. Most of me thinks it's disgusting. I'm not one to think there should be a profit motive in healthcare as it can lead to awful stories like this (I'm done with chapter one, I figure I can do one a day). Unfortunately these are, at the moment, opinions, and I can in no way fully flesh them out, offer concrete evidence as to why it should be any other way, or really truly expand on the issues. That'd be a post of it's own and a few weeks research I think.<p>Something needs to change though.