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  • Pfizer is just as bad as the opium warlords in afghanistan. They actually lobbied congress to get the FBI involved in unlawful drug raids in other countries. They are using our tax dollars for their benefit because they hate competition. Some fucking country we live in.

  • ...Legit medicines are just as bad as the counterfeits! the pharmaceutical companys are like Drug Lords and the crooked doctors that accept kickbacks for prescribing unnecessary medicines are just as bad as Drug Dealers!...they dont care about your well being all they care about is PROFIT! thats life. TRUST NOONE especially anyone that will make a profit from you...there is no "Magic Pill"...

  • I don't fault drug companies making a profit as it is VERY expensive to bring a drug to market and if there isn't profit involved we wont see new and more effective life saving drugs. I do however see a problem with how the third world is denied hiv/aids and anti malarial drugs that cost pennies to make. If these companies working in unison with government and charitable organizations would flood the third world with these life saving meds the counterfeiters would have nothing to counterfeit.

  • We need a single reporting hot-button "report this website" placed directly and prominently in the browser, the search engine portal, the shopping portal, the search results pages, wherever it will be most effective. Include warning messages, embedded video and awareness raising campaigns. This would dramatically improve public awareness and provide us a simple means to report these advertisers and websites directly to the agency responsible in each of our countries.

  • american drugs have more shiny printed boxes and look more marketable, the problem is nobody wants them because most of them are useless at 10 x costs, usually people can tell after 1-3 months of treatment if the product is good or not, if is not, they won't buy shit

  • american products are 10 x less effective than our genuine products and are 10 x more expensive, here in romania we have a 100 year history of producing quality medicine even the inventor of insuline was romanian, so americans shut up and sell your shit quietly if you can't sell the shit don't pretend yours is not 50% fake

  • @Sektorrules Actually, it was 2 Canadian researchers, Banting & Best, who discovered and isolated insulin for the successful treatment of type 1 diabetes. Banting was awarded with a Nobel Prize for this discovery in 1923.

  • @babe0nboard7 actually was Nicolae Constantin Paulescu in 1921 Banting sayst:

    „I regret very much that there was an error in our translation of Professor Paulescu's article, I cannot recollect, after this length of time, exactly what happened (...) I do not remember whether we relied on our own poor French or whether we had a translation made. In any case I would like to state how sorry I am for this unfortunate error (...)”

  • @babe0nboard7 our guy was a nationalist and a little bit antisemitic that's why the nobel prize went to somebody else...i have a list of around 50 romanian inventions for which the nobel prize were awarded to anyone else except romanians

  • @Sektorrules That is incredibly interesting- for obvious reasons this isn't highlighted in the Canadian university education system- thank you for the enlightenment!

  • @babe0nboard7 we're used to be second hand class citizens, although microsoft had like 50% romanian employess, nasa less, romanians invented the pen, and of course baseball is a variation on the 2000 year old game called "oina" around these parts

  • @babe0nboard7 watch?v=-dZGDy45ZeI watch the video called the world without Romania

  • so much for american drug companies, here we use medicine that has 10x the quantity of active substances, whereas american products are 10 x more expensive and less efficient hahahahhahaha

  • Most of you folks are nuts.

    WHO (World Health Organization) estimates more than half of the anti-maleria drugs supplied in Africa have NO active ingredients. People die.

    It is also estimated about half of the anti-AIDS drugs distributed in Africa are counterfeit, some with1/10 the necessary active ingredients- just enough to fool the tests, but not to keep the patient alive. This doesn't help Big Pharma companies make one cent. It helps criminal organizations get rich while they kill people.

  • big pharma is just as criminal and kills far more people than any criminal organization.

  • Nothing to do with big pharma making billions, big pharma drugs doing you good or not, or whatever. All to do with counterfeit fake drugs that at best have little or no benefit,, harm you, or even kill you. There is no exaggeration here!

    Counterfeit fake drugs offered are inferior quality and likely will harm you whereas generics and parallel imports of the real thing will not. Manufacturing an equivalent at a cheaper price not in big pharma packaging is not what’s being offered for sale!

  • I couldn't care less that the big drug companies are losing money! I'm also curious as to how many are of inferior quality. I wouldn't be surprised if this current affairs program is over exaggerating.

  • Pharma companies are well regulated by health authorities, meaning they manufacture drugs at a very high standard, ensuring safety and efficacy of patient whereas these counterfeit manufacturers would not have second thoughts putting in chemicals such as fertilizers, floor wax , varnish, paint or any other nasty ingredients just to produce their own version of the original drug. Pharma companies are inspected and they spend billions to keep produce drugs up to standard.

  • Counterfeit drugs are bad, but Pfizer getting involved because they are losing only change of what they make from doctors forcing prescription drugs on Americans when they don't need it. It sickens me. My doctor said he/she refuses to push the pills on his/her patients, the drug companies offer doctors a lot of money to do so, but this doctor knows right from wrong.

  • these fake drugs probably do more good for people than the real big pharma garbage chemicals.

  • @mrzack888

    Pharma companies are well regulated by health authorities, meaning they manufacture drugs at a very high standard, ensuring safety and efficacy of patient whereas these counterfeit manufacturers would not have second thoughts putting in chemicals such as fertilizers, floor wax , varnish, paint or any other nasty ingredients just to produce their own version of the original drug. Pharma companies are inspected and they spend billions to keep produce drugs up to standard.

  • @classymussy highly regulated doesn't equate to effectiveness. big pharma drugs don't cure, they only mask the problem.

  • hahah costing drug companies MILLIONS a year, when they make BILLIONS a year......it is kinda bad though cause u cant be sure whats it counterfeit drugs, and you dont know if you got counterfeit or not which is terrible.

  • The FDA is mad.If they don't give it to you it's a crime.

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