In The Constant Gardener, ‘now a major motion picture’, John Le Carre puts the drug companies in the position that the evil empire of the Soviet Union occupied in his Cold War novels.1 Perfidious big pharma is revealed to be testing dangerous drugs on impoverished Africans, suppressing information about their lethal side-effects, and murdering whistleblowers. Le Carre's convoluted tale is presented as ‘a magnificent exploration of the dark side of unbridled capitalism’. It is remarkable that this preposterous depiction of the pharmaceutical industry should strike such a popular chord. Yet, while drug companies claim that they have made a major contribution to health and welfare with a range of new medications, many accept the view that big pharma is a ruthless and corrupt form of capitalist enterprise.
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机译：约翰·勒·卡雷（John Le Carre）在“现在是主要电影”的“恒定的园丁”中，将毒品公司置于苏联的邪恶帝国在其冷战小说中所占据的位置。1据透露，这家信誉良好的大型制药公司正在对贫穷的非洲人，压制有关其致命副作用的信息，并谋杀举报者。勒·卡雷（Le Carre）令人费解的故事被描述为“对无拘束的资本主义阴暗面的宏伟探索”。值得注意的是，这种对制药业的荒谬描述应引起如此普遍的共鸣。然而，尽管制药公司声称他们通过一系列新药物为健康和福利做出了重大贡献，但许多人接受大型制药公司是无情和腐败的资本主义企业的观点。
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