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I mean the government probably made it illegal to investigate this thanks to the war on drugs, so we can’t put all the blame on pharma.

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Governments are made of people. People who like money and are more loyal to money than the voters. Voter can't buy politician a nice beach front property or placement at prestigious school for children. Big pharma can do that easily. They just need to make enough theatre for general public to believe they serve them and just let that cash roll in, while they make lives of millions a misery.

I’m no fan of big pharma I’m just saying the government had a big role in fighting against research in to these drugs. I don’t know if lobbying would have been successful against Reagan or Bush for example.

Big pharma is the government.

So Purdue, Lily, Pfizer, and the German historical Bayer are of the US government?

Of course. And Epstein, Maxwell, you name it.

The US government is about power and influence, not chains of command and technical appointments and elections. You should have learned this by now.

50% of the Food and drug administrations funding comes from pharmaceutical companies. So yeah big pharma runs our government regulatory agencies.

Source please

That's because it's based on user fees. If you want a drug approved, you need to pay to have it reviewed.

Next you'll be telling me that car owners run the DMV.

If Ford and a few other large car manufacturers accounted for 50% of DMV funding you don’t think that could lead to conflicts of interest?

The pharma industry spends more money lobbying US politicians than any other, almost twice as much as the next largest spender; 64% of pharma lobbyists are former government employees

https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/industries

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