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I was going to read Barlett and Steele’s article, in spite of the fact that it aappers in Vanity Fair, but I couldn’t get past the teaser:“Prescription drugs kill some 200,000 Americans every year. Will that number go up, now that most clinical trials are conducted overseas—on sick Russi... I was going to read Barlett and Steele’s article, in spite of the fact that it aappers in Vanity Fair, but I couldn’t get past the teaser:“Prescription drugs kill some 200,000 Americans every year. Will that number go up, now that most clinical trials are conducted overseas—on sick Russians, homeless Poles, and slum-dwelling Chinese—in places where regulation is virtually nonexistent, the F.D.A. doesn’t reach, and “mistakes†can end up in pauper’s graves? The authors investigate the globalization of the pharmaceutical industry, and the U.S. Government’s failure to rein in a lethal profit machine.â€Ah yes, true and accurate stuff this: “Prescription drugs kill some 200,000 Americans every year.†All the same, I have to wonder why those who trade in misinformation are not willing to simply bring expression in line with intention and say, “Big Pharma kills some 200,000 Americans every year.†After all, could there be a legal defense of the first, but not the second, when both nakedly imply that all these deaths were caused by willful negligence on the part of pharmaceutical companies? Notice the logical error in the second sentence. It’s like a Freudian slip that’s particular to wild-eyed partisans: the number of American deaths is conjectured to rise even though Big Pharma’s killing machine is moving overseas to Russia, Poland and China. If anything, American deaths should decrease. But maybe he means to suggest that Big Pharma’s foreign victims should be counted (through some unstated metaphysical calculus of cosmic justice) as Americans when they’re tossed in those pauper’s graves by Big Pharma. As for “lethal profit machine,†well, that’s not pejorative at all. It’s just speaking truth to power. After all, wouldn’t it be more dishonest to use neutral language when the facts are staring you in the face?! EH?!! EH?!!!
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(VISITOR) AUTHOR'S NAME
Juli
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16 december 2014, 20:26:46
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