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Even with regulations, we have pharma companies behaving wantonly. Leave the markets unregulated and we will have worse behavior. Also, there is a lot of self r
by anoncow 13y ago
Even with regulations, we have pharma companies behaving wantonly. Leave the markets unregulated and we will have worse behavior. Also, there is a lot of self regulation that the pharma companies are expected to do.
- Helpful_Bunny 13y agoI find it odd, and sad that you've been "down voted", because people are pushing an ideological agenda and not reality: http://www.badscience.net/category/big-pharma/ http://www.badscience.net/category/big-pharma/ http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bad-Pharma-companies-mislead-patients/dp/0007350740 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bad-Pharma-companies-mislead-patient... There are serious issues with the current models used by Corporations <> Science, and I'd expected HN to be a little more rational. Bottom line: if $ is at stake, of course "rational actors" will fudge their lines to prevent losses. It's not rocket science. Now - I've included a couple of decent links, to extremely well researched and honest analysis. If I get down-voted, I feel that HN has lost the spirit that drove most early coders. A =! A is not an objectivist philosophy, it's Logic, and what code is based upon. Ideology can go take a flying leap, this is Science.
- DanBC 13y agoYes, even with regulation we have some pretty appalling behaviour by pharmaceutical companies. The benefits of regulation means that when we discover that behaviour we punish those companies, and warn other companies to stop doing it. It is sub-optimal, but much preferable to freedom of access to any snake-oil sales-people.