Drug companies often spend more on marketing than research

A closer look

Every time you see a cheerful TV commercial featuring people flying kites while a narrator aggressively speed-reads a list of side effects like 'spontaneous combustion,' you are witnessing capitalism at its finest. Big Pharma routinely budgets more cash to bribe doctors and blast out consumer advertisements than they actually spend in the lab discovering cures. They aren't in the business of healing; they're in the business of aggressively selling you lifetime subscriptions to symptom management.