Some of those type of speeches are why at least one prominent pharma executive is in jail. Bribes were paid to doctors as "speaking fees". Of course, they neede

Some of those type of speeches are why at least one prominent pharma executive is in jail. Bribes were paid to doctors as "speaking fees". Of course, they needed to actually make a speech of some sort to keeps things from being easily discovered. I'm guessing a lot of these speeches were very much "phoned in".