Why You Can't Trust Drug Companies...

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This article from Dr. Mercola's site seems to present a very clear picture with regard to the Big Pharma industry and its practices. It starts off with a video from Sixty Minutes interviewing Cheryl Eckard, a drug company whistleblower. She was

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You may remember this story from last November when it first hit the news. But in the 60 Minutes interview above, whistleblower Cheryl Eckard opens up to reveal even more disturbing details about the gross negligence at the Cidra pharmaceutical plant, run by one of GlaxoSmithKline's subsidiaries.

They eventually pleaded guilty to the felony crime of distributing adulterated drugs, yet not one single person in charge of the debacle went to jail!

Why Should We Trust Felons?

Once you've been exposed to the seedy underbelly of the drug business—the LEGAL drug business—you can't but realize that we're dealing with a very large group of criminals and felons. There's really no nicer way to put it.

After all, companies are run by human beings. Company logos don't make decisions by themselves.

As it currently stands, the company usually gets away scot free or with a slap on the wrist. Oh, they do have to pay fines, and in this case it was three quarters of a billion dollars, but when your profits are over $100 billion, it's is not much more than a speeding ticket inconvenience and widely regarded as merely the cost of doing business.

Unless actual individuals are held accountable, what's to stop those individuals from perpetrating the same crime again and again? Nothing!

No less than 19 drug companies made AllBusiness.com's Top 100 Corporate Criminals List for the 1990s.

What does that tell you?Keeping that fact in mind, Eckard's story about the goings-on at the Cidra plant in Puerto Rico becomes less shocking. Not because it isn't bad, but because it's already quite clear that 'questionable business practice' has become 'standard practice' within the pharmaceutical business.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/01/18/sixty-minutes-exposes-why-you-cant-trust-drug-companies.aspx

It seems to me that this would be a good article to request anyone read who doesn't believe the Pharmaceutical industry is corrupt. The article goes on to make more points, noting near the end that these are the same companies who aren't held liable when they release tainted or otherwise compromised vaccines, which isn't to mention all of the other problems with vaccines.