The selfishness of the huge pharma corporations never ceases to amaze me. The fact that so many drugs are tested on the citizens of countries that can not afford to say no to the
United States is just absolutely awful. This is clearly not a win win situation. Many drug tests do fail and what of the guinea pig? Do they die, or suffer? Are they ever heard from again? It is just heart wrenching to imagine all of the victims of the big pharmaceutical pigs that suffer, die, or are healed while they swim in pools of crisp one hundred dollar bills. Why do we continue to be so inconsiderate of other countries and how is it just?
"If you've ever wondered why we so rarely hear of drug trials going awry in the United States, it is because we "offshore" the drug trials to developing nations who can't afford to say no.
If you've ever wondered why we so rarely hear of drug trials going awry in the United States, Sonia Shah, author of The Body Hunters: Testing New Drugs on the World's Poorest Patients (The New Press, 2006), has the unattractive answer: we "offshore" the drug trials to developing nations and to those who simply can't afford to say "anywhere but here.""--By Betsy Model, The Internationalist. Posted May 9, 2007.
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