Oh good lord here we go again. Periodically the posts about Big Pharma roll through Facebook, that encyclopedia of all that is indisputably true and right.  Fair enough. There are plenty of issues about Big Pharma that can and should be dealt with.  No argument there. At all.

It’s the comments from the whole “all we need to do is eat right and exercise and meditate/pray” crowd which make me need an antiemetic. I would be so happy if everyone who posts this naive crap would take a sworn oath to NEVER take a human created medication even if they have debilitating seizures every day, get diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease, or glaucoma, or essential hypertension (genetic, FYI, maybe due to my great great great great great grandma’s stress but not mine) or diabetes type I or ( insert here:  illness of  family member who died from said illness not created by lifestyle) all of which existed long before McDonalds, pesticides, sedentary lifestyle and Big Pharma which is busily spending money creating treatment resistant cancer mutations so that they can sell more cancer drugs.

In addition I would ask that they spend a minimum of six month in direct care of someone who deals with these illnesses painfully, hopelessly (even with available meds), and with as much desire to live to see their grandchildren as the next person.

Take the sworn oath and then, and only then, will I listen to YOUR ranting about Big Pharma.  All other rational thinkers, carry on.