Gallup: “Americans’ Views of Pharmaceutical Industry Take a Tumble”

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“In Gallup’s annual measure of 25 major U.S. business sectors, the percentage of Americans with a positive view of the pharmaceutical industry dropped from 40% in 2014 to 35% this year, while the percentage with a negative view rose from 36% to 43%.”

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Justin Karter
Justin Karter
Justin M. Karter, PhD, leads research news coverage and editorial strategy at Mad in America. He is the Acting Program Director of the PsyD in Clinical Psychology & Psychological Humanities at Boston College and part-time faculty with the Center for Psychological Humanities & Ethics. His scholarship examines historical and cultural formations of mind, subjectivity, and personhood; the roles of activist movements and lived-experience communities, including the consumer/survivor/ex-patient (C/S/X) tradition; and how mental health discourses shape institutions, practices, and identities. He works across mad studies, critical psychology, philosophy of psychology, and rights-based global mental health. Methodologically, he specializes in critical qualitative inquiry and psychotherapy process research grounded in intersubjective and phenomenological approaches. He is the President of APA Division 24 (2025-26) and serves on the Executive Board of Division 32. Previously, he was a Research Officer to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health. He earned his PhD in Counseling Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where his dissertation examined psychosocial disability advocacy in the global mental health movement. He also holds graduate degrees in Journalism and Community Psychology from Point Park University.
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    • I agree, an entire made up “bible” of so called “genetic” “mental illnesses,” that have zero relationship to “genetics.” But lots of evidence the DSM is a “bible” of iatrogenic illnesses, created by the psychiatric drugs. Let’s hope the psychiatrists wake up from their delusional belief system soon. They’re perpetrating evil on such a massive scale, it’s almost incomprehensible, just like the Nazi psychiatrists did. And their masters are the exact same banking families who financed the Nazis during WWII. How ironic.

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  2. I want to caution folks from drawing a positive conclusion from this poll; according to the summary, the low rating was based on the high cost of pharmaceutical drugs. Big Pharma could easily roll out a big drug give away program and distribute ‘free’ or low-cost drugs to people at soup kitchens, homeless shelters, free clinics, etc. while publicizing such actions in the context of a massive compassionate social justice campaign. That is what I would do if I were a board member of a major Pharma company reading this data. Folks, this low rating has nothing to do with the harm done to millions by psychiatric drugging; the majority of Americans are still clueless as to the extent of the corruption and cover-up of data. Still, any unfavorable publicity could be useful.

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