Big Pharma Backlash Getting Silly
I’m not a fan of Big Pharma. I am an environmentalist. When you know you are getting screwed over by a company, you tend to get mad at them. Then, you lash out at them. This is normal.
But there is a section of environmentalists that declare that taking ANY man-made medications for ANY reason will destroy the planet. You can read some of the hysteria over at Current Events Watch.
The argument is this: since Big Pharma sucks, don’t buy anything from them. They even say things like “it’s a choice between helping the planet or helping Big Pharma.”
Meanwhile, In The Real World
Choice? What choice? The “choice” presented is a fallacy and not an argument based on reality. This is the same problem with agribusiness, transportation, urban sprawl — you name it. Because the planet is going to hell in a handbasket, does it mean we should automatically stop going anywhere or eating anything?
No. Big Pharma sucks, but Big Pharma makes stuff we need to live. Now, then can do this a heck of a lot better than they have. They are also big polluters. These are solvable problems. That’s one reason why I grumble so much about Big Pharma, because there can be a better way of doing things (like dropping golden parachutes for executives, dropping all television advertising, stopping all animal experimentation, not marketing off-label uses for their drugs, yada yada.)
The drugs they make are life-saving. Without Prozac, I’d be dead. Without some powerful antibiotics, my Mom would probably have been killed when she got a Staph A infection a couple of years ago. If it’s a choice between my Mom or the planet, well the planet knows where it can go.
Marketing Martyrs
Instead of making Big Pharma look like the bad guy, the radical environmentalists are only making themselves look like bad guys.
I’m serious. Look at all the moaning and groaning over the American and Canadian auto industry. No one wants to buy their crappy cars partially because they hurt the environment and now the American (and Canadian) governments have bailed them out because they felt sorry for them. They did a really good job of making themselves look like victims.
For the Earth’s sake, let’s not make Big Pharma look like a victim.
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