Pharmanoia is an extreme distrust of pharmaceutical companies, the drugs they produce and the research used to produce them. The term was coined by science writer Jon Cohen in a 2006 article written for Slate.^[1] Though Cohen discussed the legitimate concerns about the relationship between researchers and drug companies and concerns over unethical practices used by companies when testing medications in third-world countries, his greater concern was the way emotions held the potential to obscure the benefits of the medications they produce and the complicated ethical issues the worldwide HIV epidemic and search for a cure had created.