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www.vanityfair.com New TYT Network channels: www.youtube.com www.youtube.com New TYT Facebook Page(!): www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com www.theyoungturks.com DISCOUNTS: www.theyoungturks.com FREE Movies(!): www.netflix.com Note: The above two links are for TYT sponsors. TYT Network (new WTF?! channel): www.youtube.com Check Out TYT Interviews www.youtube.com Prescription drugs kill some 200000 Americans every year. Will that number go up, now that most clinical trials are conducted overseas—on sick Russians, homeless Poles, and slum-dwelling Chinese—in places where regulation is virtually nonexistent, the FDA doesn’t reach, and “mistakes” can end up in pauper’s graves? The authors investigate the globalization of the pharmaceutical industry, and the US Government’s failure to rein in a lethal profit machine. You wouldn’t think the cities had much in common. IaĹźi, with a population of 320000, lies in the Moldavian region of Romania. MĂ©grine is a town of 24000 in northern Tunisia, on the Mediterranean Sea. Tartu, Estonia, with a population of 100000, is the oldest city in the Baltic States; it is sometimes called “the Athens on the Emajõgi.” Shenyang, in northeastern China, is a major industrial center and transportation hub with a population of 7.2 million. These places are not on anyone’s Top 10 list of travel destinations. But the advance scouts of the pharmaceutical industry have visited all of them, and scores of similar cities and towns, large and …
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nature is amoral; nothing involving humanity is; humans invented morality, we should stick by it; including companies; by being amoral and human they are acutally immoral, evil;
Cenk is wrong. Corporations may be amoral (they have no morals of their own), but they can certainly be described as evil by our standards.
We use our morals to say what is evil and what isn’t, we don’t use the morals of the entity we are judging. If we did, most serial killers would not be evil.
@MotherRat Sad but True man.
@bryanp311 Good job man!
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There is no value on life anymore. As long as the rich are getting richer, everyone else can die in the streets.
Sory but…it’s USA,and that is normal for this country.Realy nothing new for couple decades.
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@bryanp311
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@MrTomSpencer Of course not – that’s exactly what the people running this corporations are doing.
@l0gically So you’re telling me that there is no one on Earth that will put others in danger just so they can make an extra buck?
estonia? thats a pretty well off country
“Corporations are indeed ammoral, soulless”
So you’re suggesting that there is absolutely no moral component to decisions made about the “cost” of certain decisions that may end up hurting innocent people? When decisions are made *by* people? Corporations don’t run themselves.
@l0gically how is our level of civility any better now than 100 years ago? Have you not seen the legions of americans gullible enough to believe all the Fox news rhetoric and lies, and the absurdity of people showing up with protest signs at various events? Corporations are indeed ammoral, soulless, they exist only to increase their profits, watch the Corporation doc plenty of evidence there. What is missing is power to block some of their more nefarious moves.
@l0gically no actually what the big powers where using 100 years ago is what they still implement to day, it’s all about profit and they dont care if poor people get hurt cuz hey who gives a shit about the poor
Cool show…
@ConscientiousMind It’s not a different interpretation of law, go check a dictionary. It u refusing to recognize that government can/may do more than simply protecting yr rights, but yr refusal doesn’t change the meaning of ‘regulation’ or ‘government’. Government’s longevity depends on a stable country, that is the incentive. I could go on but there’s no point, u are so convince of yr views that word have no meaning & see people’s suffering as acceptable loses, I will not reply further. Gd day.
@BioCapsule We have different interpretations of rule of law. What I mean by it is the ability to get protection from the courts when my rights are being violated. Regulation, however, means that the federal government steps between private citizens in the name of consumer protection. This is hardly ever the case – in fact, often times lobbyists favour regulation because it lowers competition!
I do agree, however, that the rich can use the legal system in their favour which is lamentable.
Think of it this way. You have two scenarios: either 1) 20 people die first year, 5 people next year, then 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0…; or 2) 3-4 people die every year. Extrapolate 20, 40, even 100 years – which scenario has less casualties?
As you can see, I’m not saying the FDA is completely inefficient – it’s obvious that they’ve saved lives. However, that’s part of the problem! People are too dependent on it and the market could, in the long run, do a better job and save even more lives.
@BioCapsule I’ve said this before: it’s tragic that there’d have to be casualties in order for the market to correct itself, but in utilitarian terms it’s still better than a government agency (which has less incentives to be effective) doing a mediocre job year in and year out.
I wonder how many comments on this video will be right-wingers calling for less regulation… THINK FOR FIVE SECONDS YOU FUCKING MORONS!
@l0gically But if it’s amoral, it can’t be evil. They don’t do it because they want to inflict harm, they do it because they don’t care if they inflict harm. It’s a lack of morality, not a darkness in their “soul”.
However, the CEOs etc who approve this type of shit? They’re sick, evil sociopaths that should die from choking on diarrhea for their greed.
@ConscientiousMind further more… if you think letting people suffered then sue for compensation so companies can self-regulate better is prefer than preventing suffer from happening in the 1st place, then we have nothing more to say. A “lot of good” compensation will do if someone got a degenerative disease that leave them mentally cripple (sarcasm).
Regulatory agency don’t have to be overbearing, big & complicated. It just need to be efficient, be there where it counts. That is rule of law.
@bryanp311
There is a time for fighting, and a time for being laid back.
Hatred never grows wisdom, but it’s fun to be a jerk sometimes
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With calmness comes wisdom, which lets us know when it is the right time, to have fun being a jerk
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@ConscientiousMind I didn’t say there’s no rule of law, I am saying rule of law can be subverted which happen quite often for the rich & powerful. And what do you think the word “regulation” means? To be ‘regulated’ IS to be control by the rule of law… which is why the rich & powerful must not be allow to be so powerful that they buy the rule of law and your answer is to give them all the power? US is in trouble because the relevant regulations has being strip away by lobbyists.
@Joxman2k Yes that’s what I have been saying all along!!!! Instead of everyone fighting all the time. Like they are on here….. It would be a much calmer, laid back country…