Alex Tarnava

terminated.

They'll be blacklisted from industry.

And this is why I don't really believe in conspiracy.

I believe in emergent behaviors based on the structure we are within.

Because think, you live your life.

Maybe you get into pharma because your parent is sick, one of your parents or your brother or your sister or your grandparent, and you want to find a cop.

and you work, and you work, and you really believe, and you rise up, and now you're the chief science officer, or you're the CEO of a company in the industry.

Now you're privy to all the dirty, dark secrets that are going on.

But you have layer after layer of confidentiality agreements.

You have your fiduciary duty.

If you try and change things based on an ethical or moral stance, now there's real consequences.

You can be sued.

You can...

You know, lose your shares, lose your income, lose your home.

Your family is now in hardship, right?

You are maybe middle-aged with children.

You won't have any retirement.

You lose everything.

And at that point, basically everyone makes the decision we know they're going to make that they prioritize themselves and their family over society.

And it doesn't make them evil people.