Who wouldn't trust the Drug companies?

Once again, Big Pharma, key opponents of major health care reform, have been caught cooking numbers on drug tests. This time it was tests on Zetia, a cholesterol-lowering drug.

Sort of like the tobacco companies that controlled the 'research' on smoking, these companies manipulate research and maintain their patent monopolies to keep among the most profitable sectors of the economy. The drug companies claim they need the excessive profits and the patent protections in order to develop new drugs. Of course, it's really about protecting profits, as there are other, more effective ways to finance drug research and development.

PS: Big Pharma spends more on marketing drugs than developing them.