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.
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!
