I've given the numbers, annual reports, and percentages in the past. Most of the myths about "Big Pharm" are just that, myths. Frankly, I get tired of collecting the same information over and over again.

Ideas are not "stolen" from universities. If you're really interested, this is how drugs are discovered and patented, and by who.

The FDA is not the Canadian Therapeutic Products Directorate.

There is a persistent delusion that if you just stripped everything away from a business that involves making lots of money, we'd have all the wonderful things in life for next to nothing. This has gone badly every time someone has attempted to shoehorn this delusion into the real world.