What Can We Learn From Fakes?
Gresham College Lectures
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The Power of Naming Medicines as Fake
The film is based in india, the world's largest producer of medical ingredients. India produces generic medicines precisely to allow many poor countries to have access them. Even though they're generics, they're often still categorized as fakes by pharmacutical companies. The discussion predates changes in the naming of drugs that have gone from fake to generic em. It really shows this kind of european organizations charging o forty thousand yen for a bottle, versus india which is producing exactly the same medicine with exactly the same efficacy, for two thousand yen.
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