Type ‘Big Pharma’ into Google and you’ll get pages of conspiracy theories. The big drug companies are plotting to take over the world, they’re in league with the Russians/Chinese/Aliens/Bill Gates, and they’re some of the many that Trump’s blaming for ‘the big election fraud’. I remember a debate at a fund manager meeting about whether, as they test in the 3rd world then won’t sell them lifesaving drugs, their shares should be included in ethical funds. Yet without them, we wouldn’t have those lifesaving drugs. Nor the vaccines that may allow us to go down the pub again. So, on balance, don’t they do more good than harm? Like Apple?
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Here’s the flip side. Should a business not have the right to choose whom it serves? If you as a client, or more likely potential client, rub us up the wrong way, are a declared anti-vaxxer or support the barges, can we not, as a business, say ‘Be Gone’?
