Pharmaceutical industry Quote by Ben Goldacre

Homeopathy pills are, after all, empty little sugar pills which seem to work, and so they embody [..] how we can be misled into…

— Ben Goldacre

There is actually quite a lot of crossover between the quacks and drug companies. They use the same tricks and tactics to bamboozle people…

— Ben Goldacre

“Nutritionists are alternative therapists, but have somehow managed to brand themselves as men and women of science. Their errors are much more interesting than…

— Ben Goldacre

There's a certain libertarian right-wing view that there should be no FDA, that people can decide for themselves whether medicines are safe and effective.…

— Marcia Angell

If anyone doubts the influence of drug company ads on patients and physicians - consider all those wasted billions of dollars for a pill…

— Robert Bazell

Drug companies should not be allowed to reap excessive profits or spend unreasonable amounts on marketing if they want to receive support that is…

— Hillary Clinton

It's unreasonable to expect medical doctors and pharmaceutical companies to tell you how to avoid their services by trying the alternatives.

— Andrew Saul

It is impossible to solve health problems of millions of people with the help of pills. People need to put it into practice, have…

— Vladimir Putin

If the FDA would spend a little less time and effort on small manufacturers of vitamins...and a little more on the large manufacturers of...dangerous…

— Russell B. Long

“Developing supplement protocols requires watching for health improvements, side effects, toxicity and societal prejudices.”

— Steven Magee

“Healthy people do not buy prescription drugs,therefore, big pharma does not produce drugs that actually cure anything.”

— J. Thomas Shaw

“According to an article in the Washington Post: The Food and Drug Administration has repeatedly urged antidepressant manufacturers not to disclose to physicians and…

— Irving Kirsch