"When you say in 2023 that they have "new insights" as to why a common over the counter drug works it really doesn't instill great confidence in pharm" This is

"When you say in 2023 that they have "new insights" as to why a common over the counter drug works it really doesn't instill great confidence in pharm" This isn't a problem with big pharma, but rather, an issue with your understanding of how little we know about medicine. We occasionally still find new body parts, and we've been dissecting bodies for centuries. We don't cure some diseases because we don't know the reasons they happen, but find out some medicines that seem to help. Others, we don't cure simply because we don't know how to prevent them. And this sort of thing isn't limited to medicine: We weren't sure the astronauts would survive. We did what we could to me reasonably sure, but... we weren't. This isn't new, nor is it contained to medicine. We've done a lot of things without understanding the underlying mechanisms.