indie it wasn't just the side effects....people actually died during the research and they lied about it to the FDA. what else has been forged that people don't know about....they proved they were untrustworthy....
they have marketed themselves as trustworthy and people therefore trust them on a wide scale.....
i looked up thalidomide....its interesting that you would bring it up because it was originally specifically for pregnant mothers......
From 1956 to 1962, approximately 10,000children in Africa and Europe were born with severe malformities, including phocomelia, because their mothers had taken thalidomide during pregnancy.
so i'm not surprised it was banned.....its good that it helps the right people now....but a bit late for those mothers....
anyway the point is...people are trusting the pharma industry too much and the way society is now there is less social interaction with people therefore people can more easily be manipulated by the marketing and even doctors by the sales reps. People are quicker to think something is wrong with them than actually looking at their diet and instead take a pill...its quicker and easier but in the long run can be devastating.....it's not right what the pharma industry is doing.....they are keeping people sick instead of curing them....because once a person starts then it becomes more and more pills to mask each side effect for each pill....so on and so forth.....more money for the pharma industry....because afterall it is a business as you so well pointed out earlier............
but is it an ethical one