and I find that there is too much absurdity ... do not go around the bush: the main problem of this depakine story is the lack of consideration of side effects, however, known for a long time ... prescribe depakine before pregnancy is a medical mistake! not a reason to criticize the depakine if it is useful
Your reasoning is, Sadly, very widespread because it presupposes that there are no other possible ways than this product. (Could you name a substitute product that is not synthetic chemistry?) Therefore, rather than nothing, a product as unsatisfactory as it may seem necessary. The same problem occurred during the global panic with AIDS, where there was no known medication to reassure the panicked crowds and the first comer was supposed to do the trick, hence the AZT case and all the human damage this product caused, but it reassured the crowds .... who did not take any.
criticize the drug maker who earns too much money is another story ...
Both are linked!
What does it cost society, through our contributions, the use of water in hydrotherapy: nothing. Non-toxic nutrition: nothing. Some herbal tea plants: nothing! etc ... and that's the end of the patented drugs to make exorbitant prices and huge pharmaceutical profits
earn it really too much!
It would not be a real problem if these profits were reinvested in research causesEg.
But these huge profits are distributed to big shareholders like Total or L'Oréal who are not philanthropists and cash without problems these buxom galettes.
Is there no other problem in funding research?
Why finance research on profits while the population is generous at telethons of all kinds, these shareholders must be banged on the belly of laughter and satisfaction in such a situation.
For the anecdote the Institut Pasteur, when it was not yet spent in the private sector, was permanently in deficit although doing about the same research and products as its competitor Mérieux which made him comfortable profits and it is the state, so we, who was hand in hand to fill these pseudo deficits. Ah yes ! In addition, the statutes of Pasteur were, it seems, so made that they were not accountable.
And if you listen to the ads, Pasteur is crying misery in the cottages on his fate with viewers with the co-discoverer of the pseudo HIV. sniff!