the story line of the TV show gives you your answer. Your buddies like John Edwards don't care about facts, just profiteering on peoples' fears. I guess you got canned by a pharmaceutical company and are pretty bitter about it . I'm sorry.
Nice straw man argument. But totally innacurate.
Here are the facts... I worked for a pharma company In Delaware in the mid 90s as a consultant. They were working a new AIDS drug and someone was killed from it. The talk around the office was that they had spent 400 million dollars and they were not going to see a return on the investment. No mention about the poor man who died.
My eyes were opened and I realized that people love money far more than they do each other.
Anyhow the scuttlebut later was that further animal experimentation might have caught the lethal problem, but they were in a race with other pharma companies.
So you see no one can sell me that companies and the gubberment are just hookers with a heart of gold crap. I aint buying.