June 21, 2006
Burt Prelutsky puts it so succinctly:
But of all the entities saddled with that epithet [big _____, ed.], no group is as universally despised as the pharmaceutical industry. I think all rational people would agree that al-Qaida gets better press than these guys. In Hollywood, manufacturing and selling legal drugs is regarded as far worse than dealing illegal ones.The entire article is worth your time. I do find it interesting that most of the reviled 'big' industries actually produce the things that are crucial to our way of life.
