Calling people who are anti-quackery "pro-big pharma" is dishonest and wrong. [View All]

[FLAprogressive]

I have noticed that, without fail, if you question the scientific validity of beliefs such as the anti-vaccination movement, homeopathy, etc., you are immediately labeled as someone who is a shill for "big pharma". This strawman argument is repeated ad nauseum and rants against big pharma do not prove anything, they certainly don't prove that the attackee is "for" "big pharma".

There is a belief, grounded in logical fallacy, that guides them: "Big Pharma is bad. (insert quackery of choice) is not big pharma. (quackery of choice) is good."

Not buying into junk science does not make you "pro-big pharma", it just means you use common sense. Big pharma and big quackery (it's a big business too) are just two evil sides of the same coin.