Reply #61: Good stuff to know:

[wtmusic]

re: "an insidious plot"

"The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a person's actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position."

http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/straw-man.html

Pharamaceutical companies hand out samples for the same reason any company hands out promotional items. The docs hand them out to their patients, and next time around the patients pay for them, maybe entice a family member to use them too.

(BTW you're little laughing dude doesn't bother me, just makes it kind of hard to take your argument seriously).