 They're more performative than sincere, I'm afraid. But even if this lawsuit succeeds, Pfizer will get off with a little slap on the wrist, a fine dwarfed by the profits it made through its own malfeasance in giving it no incentive to act right in the future at all. In other words, if they have to pay a billion fine for making $10 billion, who cares? There is not a single politician in Washington