Michael Shermer with Gerald Posner - Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America
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Pharmaceutical breakthroughs such as antibiotics and vaccines rank among some of the greatest advancements in human history. Yet exorbitant prices for life-saving drugs, safety recalls affecting tens of millions of Americans, and soaring rates of addiction and overdose on prescription opioids have caused many to lose faith in drug companies. Now, Americans are demanding a national reckoning with a monolithic industry. Pharma introduces brilliant scientists, incorruptible government regulators, and brave whistleblowers facing off against company executives often blinded by greed. A business that profits from treating ills can create far deadlier problems than it cures. Addictive products are part of the industry’s DNA, from the days when corner drugstores sold morphine, heroin, and cocaine, to the past two decades of dangerously overprescribed opioids. Pharma also uncovers the real story of the Sacklers, the family that became one of America’s wealthiest from the success of OxyContin, their blockbuster narcotic painkiller at the center of the opioid crisis. Pharma reveals how and why American drug companies have put earnings ahead of patients. Shermer and Posner also discuss:
• how Big Pharma companies conspire to hack the FDA regulations,
• parsing responsibility for the Opioid crisis between manufacturers, distributors, doctors, and patients,
• the physiology of addiction and dependency,
• how Arthur Sackler went from liberal do-gooder to greedy capitalist,
• the polio vaccine and patenting the sun,
• how valium and anti-depressants were marketed to men and women differently,
• how the AIDS cocktail was developed,
• how Viagra® was discovered,
• why patents and intellectual property rights do not lead to more innovation,
• the prospects for a COVID-19 vaccine,
• the current state of the opioid crisis and how to stem it.
Gerald Posner is an award-winning journalist who has written twelve books, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK and multiple national bestsellers. His 2015 book, God’s Bankers, a two-hundred-year history of the finances of the Vatican, was an acclaimed New York Times bestseller. Posner has written for many national magazines and papers, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Newsweek, and Time, and he has been a regular contributor to NBC, the History Channel, CNN, CBS, MSNBC, and FOX News. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, author Trisha Posner.
This dialogue was recorded on June 2, 2020 as part of the Science Salon Podcast series hosted by Michael Shermer and presented by The Skeptics Society, in California.
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Healthcare shouldn't be a for profit endeavor. I believe in the power of markets, but I also believe in things that are too important to play market games with, like the healthcare of the nation.
I just found this channel. I love Dr Shermer's work. I saw him on Penn & Tellers bullshit episode on religion and I've been watching him ever since
Clean your room
Regardless of how elaborate or expensive a company's marketing campaign is, no corporation can force a consumer to purchase a product or service against his/her will. Unless, of course, a government mandate becomes the intimidating incentive to buy.
@jeffersonianideal It is much more complicated than that. A company does not need to force consumers, if they can just lie to them. There is an entire industry that specializes in abusing human weaknesses, misguiding them, creating misconceptions, presenting lies as truth, etc.
Then you don't understand how powerful and suggestive marketing and advertising is.
What about when you have to buy medicine to stay alive, like insulin, and the govt has allowed a monopoly to be created by refusing to enforce the law?
The reason your guest is WRONG on Oswald is because of who the man was who killed Oswald- this bloke wasn't simply an outraged citizen - he was conducting a contract for who is known to be attached to - the mafia. This guest should be selling used cars.
As interesting and important this can be; I still think this would be much better if these guys actually understand the roots of addiction, which they clearly don't. Other than that, it was pretty good.
it is the poisoning of as much as they can tbh
To quote Milton Friedman: "the business of business is business". The only thing private companies should care about is profit. The profit incentive is the whole point of the market. It's the governments job to look after people. Don't expect Big Pharma to do the governments job.
Don't expect Big Government to be any more proficient at accomplishing the task.
@WhiteRussianBC Hence the inequality, the destruction of the world and the general mess we find our selves in. To allege that a private company has no social, environmental, moral, or other responsibilities is atrocious and the cause of a lot of suffering in the world. It is just plain ridiculous.
Each time I listen to Dr. Shermer, I detect a less and less adherence to libertarian convictions. His principles must be leaking out from somewhere.
strange face !?
I strongly prefer markets but it is clear that the market is a suboptimal provider for certain goods with an overriding national or humanitarian interest. I think healthcare broadly and pharmaceuticals specifically are national and humanitarian issues as they are bankrupting us while diminishing our wellbeing. Clearly something must be done. The problem is that almost everything I hear sounds either overreactive or insufficient. It's very complicated and what bothers me most is that I don't get the sensation that anyone has a serviceable plan to fix it. I've heard proposals for some of the issues raised here but, at 4 trillion per year in federal healthcare spending, they are just bandaids on a firehose.
nanobots hook up to 5 g it is the matrix
Syndox ....
Both look great for 65 and 66!
great ! I love Gerald Posner's work, loved "Case Closed"