I am somewhat confused by the term "article you posted" in your comment.
I had believed that I had posted a variety of different articles from several different sources, one of which was written by Marcia Angell, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine and presumably someone who knows how much a drug costs to develop.
The article I was referring to was the BJM article.
Oh yes, I know all about Marcia Angell. She has been rallying against the pharma industry for over a decade. The link I posted also goes into some of the outrageous things she has said that are completely unsupportable.
Does pharma do bad things? Yes! But claiming there is a pharma conspiracy to drive down "target" cholesterol levels so they can sell more drugs is laughable. It ignores all the scientific evidence (most of it NOT from pharma companies), much of it published in her the journal she works for.
