Large pharmaceutical companies who pour more money into advertising, marketing, and political lobbying than they do into research, development, production, and distribution of medication. They also extort patients who need medicine for life-saving purposes into paying huge sums of money at an outrageous markup.
Big Pharma increased the price of Epipens to over a thousand dollars, but they cost only two bucks to make.
by Simmaniac January 13, 2021
A disparaging term for the pharmaceutical industry, which is obviously the source of all the world's evils, is 100% full of greedy, unethical fucks, and never, ever does anything good, because modern medicine is a complete scam. Ironically, people who spout this crap, most likely take an Advil when they get a headache.
Note that occasionally, pharmaceutical companies DO engage in unethical behavior (and usually get caught, and pay massive fines for it), but to listen to these people speak, it's the entire industry's default mode of operation, all that they ever do, and there isn't a single honest person in the entire field.
Very much less commonly, if you know someone who works in the pharma industry, and is job-searching, you might hear them say something like "I would prefer to work for small pharma rather than big pharma", but this is very much not the popular usage, 99.999999% it's just some idiot.
Note that occasionally, pharmaceutical companies DO engage in unethical behavior (and usually get caught, and pay massive fines for it), but to listen to these people speak, it's the entire industry's default mode of operation, all that they ever do, and there isn't a single honest person in the entire field.
Very much less commonly, if you know someone who works in the pharma industry, and is job-searching, you might hear them say something like "I would prefer to work for small pharma rather than big pharma", but this is very much not the popular usage, 99.999999% it's just some idiot.
Big Pharma is a scam, there's a pill for EVERYTHING these days! I would much rather go back to the days when people died of easily-treatable illnesses, and the life expectancy was 40!
by q359 July 25, 2023
short for “Big pharmacy” big pharma is a word often used by conservatives to describe “How evil” the pharmacy industry is
Also scammers use it a lot too
One time I was scrolling through a comments section and saw a bot pretending to be a messenger for Jesus
And that they were delivering a message from him about how big pharma is pure evil and that their scam site is the holy place Jesus wants people to use
It was so ridiculous it almost felt satire
but it wasn’t
Also scammers use it a lot too
One time I was scrolling through a comments section and saw a bot pretending to be a messenger for Jesus
And that they were delivering a message from him about how big pharma is pure evil and that their scam site is the holy place Jesus wants people to use
It was so ridiculous it almost felt satire
but it wasn’t
Conservative: Big pharma is evil and trump is the second coming of jesus!
Normal guy: wth are you talking about
Normal guy: wth are you talking about
by VeryGoodwithWords May 18, 2021
When someone almost always chooses pharmaceutical pills to handle their body problem even when there are more effective and less damaging methods of fixing their body problems. This person has an obsession with pills, they ignore healthy eating habits and want all their problems to be fixed by these pills. being sick & under the thumb of big pharma is their fetish and their goal in life.
instead of doing paleo & intermittent fasting or going on a diet joe decided to be a fat lazy bitch with a big pharma fetish and started taking weight loss medications.
by BeatMeatRepeat November 2, 2022
When big pharma is allowed to produce and unlimited amount of pain medication and never gets any blame for the drug problems in the country. This is the essence of big pharma blame game.
When the government issues a license to a pain clinic and the doctors overperscribe medication and the federal court blames the owner of clinic and sentences the granted license holder to 20 years in prison. This would be the scapegoat of the big pharma blame game.
by doublestandarddems April 28, 2013
Big Pharma: refers to pharmaceutical companies with revenue in excess of $3 billion, and/or R&D expenditure in excess of $500 million
The American Medical Association is the street dealer for Big Brotha Pharma in their effort to rule the world and finish the process of converting the human race to upright walking lemmings and sheep.
Big Brotha Pharma, spends millions annually on biased, well-designed, stringently controlled research designed to “prove” the ineffectiveness of any alternative medicine that can challenge any of their precious, toxic, but ultimately very profitable chemical concoctions.
Big Brotha Pharma, spends millions annually on biased, well-designed, stringently controlled research designed to “prove” the ineffectiveness of any alternative medicine that can challenge any of their precious, toxic, but ultimately very profitable chemical concoctions.
by Urban Samurai October 5, 2009