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Sep 2015
57m 33s

Big Pharma: Conspiracies and Cover-ups

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Big Pharma gets a bad name in the press, and the actions of multinational pharmaceutical companies are often the subject of various conspiracies - but are any of the allegations true? Learn more about theories behind political corruption, tainted medicine 
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