Oct 22, 2026 · 1 hr 26 min · 18 segments
This week, in our throwback episode the 3SchemeQueens and their expert guest Dr Andrew, PharmD, put Big Pharma under the microscope. Are drug companies hiding cures to protect their profits? Are we…
People have long alleged that the pharmaceutical companies suppress cures for diseases to maintain a steady revenue from ongoing treatments.
In fact, there's a belief that big pharma is actively working to suppress alternative treatments that could compete with pharmaceutical products.
Further conspiracy theories include assertions that data from drug trials are manipulated to ensure FDA approval and market success, that the government colludes to enforce regulations that favor their interests, and that Big Pharma influences doctors through kickbacks and promotions, which could lead to biased prescribing practices.
Today, we're going to have our resident PharmD break down these and other conspiracy theories.
Oh, bum, bum,
bum.
Oh, that was good.
Thank
you.
Before you start, what is everybody's thoughts and feelings on it?
Do you believe that they are like hiding cures? I want to think that they know cures, but I want to assume the reason they don't have the cures is because they just don't have enough evidence.
Like I'm sure there's...
So you
think they discovered it already, but it's not ready
yet.
But what I do believe, and I think it's pretty much a fact, that they feed into certain marketing schemes to get people to buy meds that don't do anything.
Like the cold and flu aisle.
Oh, yeah, for sure.
I think that's like, I mean, obviously.
Right.
I do think that if you want to approach it from like a business aspect, I think that like people making money off of illnesses is kind of wrong jacking up the prices.
But that's like more ethical versus do I think that they're trying to sell something that isn't right or isn't promoting health? I do think that there is like a fundamental problem with polypharmacy.
Like that's my problem with it with it is like I think too many people are too medicated because honestly, doctors don't have time to sit down and like go through every disease process with them and like talk about preventative medicine and all of that.
People have long alleged that the pharmaceutical companies suppress cures for diseases to maintain a steady revenue from ongoing treatments.
In fact, there's a belief that big pharma is actively working to suppress alternative treatments that could compete with pharmaceutical products.
Further conspiracy theories include assertions that data from drug trials are manipulated to ensure FDA approval and market success, that the government colludes to enforce regulations that favor their interests, and that Big Pharma influences doctors through kickbacks and promotions, which could lead to biased prescribing practices.
Today, we're going to have our resident PharmD break down these and other conspiracy theories.
Oh, bum, bum,
bum.
Oh, that was good.
Thank
you.
Before you start, what is everybody's thoughts and feelings on it?
Do you believe that they are like hiding cures? I want to think that they know cures, but I want to assume the reason they don't have the cures is because they just don't have enough evidence.
Like I'm sure there's...
So you
think they discovered it already, but it's not ready
yet.
But what I do believe, and I think it's pretty much a fact, that they feed into certain marketing schemes to get people to buy meds that don't do anything.
Like the cold and flu aisle.
Oh, yeah, for sure.
I think that's like, I mean, obviously.
Right.
I do think that if you want to approach it from like a business aspect, I think that like people making money off of illnesses is kind of wrong jacking up the prices.
But that's like more ethical versus do I think that they're trying to sell something that isn't right or isn't promoting health? I do think that there is like a fundamental problem with polypharmacy.
Like that's my problem with it with it is like I think too many people are too medicated because honestly, doctors don't have time to sit down and like go through every disease process with them and like talk about preventative medicine and all of that.
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