Many commercial sectors attempt to manipulate scientific findings in their favour or to hide or falsify results.
rapidly rising sickness and death levels, disability, environmental damage and widening social inequities. The Lancet series describes a “pathological system” in which a substantial group of commercial actors are increasingly enabled to cause harm and to make others pay the costs of doing so. They profit without bearing any of the costs of the harmful products marketed to an unsuspecting public.
The commercial sector exists to make a profit. In the logic of the private sector, this outweighs public health and well-being. Commercial activity’s health impacts can be positive, such as employing people in communities. But most are harmful. In public health, we call theseThe commercial practices that lead to these impacts range from legal to illegal, evident to subtle. They often overlap. At the same time, several types of practices used by commercial actors harm us.
Recently, Covid-19 vaccines were affordable for only the wealthiest countries. The same thing happened two decades earlier with antiretroviral drugs for HIV.The commercial sector uses various “dark marketing” strategies to create demand for brands and increase product consumption. Advertising for fast food and other ultra-processed food dominates many countries’ advertising space.
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