Isn't this what everyone wanted? Everything being run "like a business" to maximize profits? Wasn't that how we all intentionally set it up? Shouldn't y'all be feverishly shaking the pom poms and doing backflips and squad cheers for capitalist efficiencies and the free market?

Probably has to do with the fact that the booster is effective.

If you really think that they're capable of completely falsifying results of multiple studies performed by various governments and research institutions around the world by way of bribing _everyone_ involved, you have a lot more confidence in their ability to successfully pull of a giant, complex, illegal operation without getting caught than I do.

This isn't to say that pharmaceutical companies don't engage in shady tactics when it comes to performing their own studies and bribing doctors, but this is a vastly different circumstance. They don't control these studies.