Superfrozo, I think you might find the 'pharma' quote refers to their exceptional abilities to market what they already have on the shelf, and their less than remarkable ability to can products that they have invested significant sums in that don't actually deliver, ie their substantially well documented lack of ethics in the case of failed drug trials. But we digress. Regardless of your opinion of the author, or my opinion for that matter, Taleb's observation used in the quote above was in my humble opinion an accurate reflection of the stereotyping we were reading in this thread.