Eschewing Big Pharma's many attempts to extract our $$$$

[sivansanabliss]

Doesn't it get to you after a while? You're standing in line paying for your groceries and the cashier asks if you want to "help the children." (They are getting rather vague these days, by the way.) I said "Help them with what?" Now that one was Easter Seals, which doesn't bug me. But sometimes it's for "research," which is MORE DRUGS!

No. Way. In. Hell. And I tell them that I don't give Big Pharma even more moola than they already get!

[MineralMan]

1. Give or don't give. Research doesn't always

mean "more drugs." Not at all. Your reasons for not donating aren't needed. Just don't give if you don't want to.

[HuckleB]

2. Odd.

I've never had a clerk ask for something vague. It's always very explicit, and it's never been for research.

Further, most of the research I know about has little to do with medications, and I know far too many researchers at a health science university.

[EvolveOrConvolve]

3. The OP is no longer with us

Dang, the MIR team is fast!