Pharma

The Book List: 1970 - 2020

Pharma: Greed, Lies and the Poisoning of America by Gerald Posner, 2020

After reading this well researched book I am appalled and angered that our country may be depending on these price-gouging deceptive companies to find and market a vaccination to end the current pandemic. The book clearly details that their excessive profit motivated promotion of antibiotics and opioids crossed the line into criminal behavior.

There is a chapter towards the end of the book titled "The Next Pandemic" which is a clear warning from pharmaceutical industry scientist that the next pandemic would be unstoppable because these companies put profits over duty to develop drugs for the public good and that there is no question of if there is a pandemic coming but only a question of when. Well we now know how true that statement has proven to be.