Between this and yanking their USAID funding, this could topple some of the MSM agitprop weapons.
Holy Cow! TV and streaming will go broke.
Wouldn’t that be special. It would ALMOST make the boob tube watchable again.
I remember when drug ads and attorney ads were banned from the airways. We were healthier then.
I think this is the part most people don't understand when it comes to banning advertising. If the networks are making tons of money from pharma there's not much motivation in reporting bad stories.
Whatever will Fox do? LOLOLOL
Ads we never used to see on TV:
Prescription meds
Lawyers
Gambling
Whiskey
etc
I’ve been saying this for years now. Watch the evening news on any of the networks. It’s 1 minute of news and 2 minutes of pharma ads.
You’re correct, it’s to stop any negative publicity.
Dear lord this would be amazing. My wife and are both SO sick of these ads.
Most of the time the reason to take the drug is briefly mentioned so much you have no idea what the hell it’s for. SO SICK of them.
-SB
Faux news will get the sads - big pharma literally owns them.
When a higher up from one of the biggies got caught by the on hidden camera by the veritus founder and had a total freakout - not one word was mentioned on Fox.
Anyone remember that?
He has an uphill battle and I am not impressed by anything of his role yet.
On this topic, when he successfully both gets ads banned and makes it illegal to court doctors as they have for decades, wake me.
Not sure who came up with the plan, but it’s a beautiful way to obliterate some of the enemy without firing one shot or dropping one bomb.
Never quite understood purpose of the pharmaceutical ads. I usually don’t know what disease or symptom they supposedly are for, lots of things mentioned that can go wrong if you use, and I just can’t go out and purchase without prescription.
Just think about the ED and PE medicines. They are so distasteful they can not describe the symptoms they treat without using abrevistions.
That should be a indication how bad these ads are.
Do it, and watch Dinosaur Media collapse, it will be beautiful to see.
I would instead mandate that the side effects, contraindications, and mention of potential death be required to scroll in large text across the screen (not in tiny letters along the bottom) while it’s read out in that enhanced commercial volume in a completely bitchin’ British AI voice.
The prescription medication that one takes should be decided solely by the Dr and the patient, not from some tailored Big Pharma add shown on commercial television. Keep Big Pharma off of my tv!
I am a retired Hospital Clinical Pharmacist. I hate those adds on TV. They entice patients to demand their doctor write for this when there is a perfectly equally therapeutic drug available at a fraction of the cost. Those adds are only successful on those that are medically ignorant of drug therapy which most of us are. I wish they are banned but then comes the problem of free speech which is more important than that brand new expensive as hell drug that is no better than another much cheaper. Thus I come down on the side of free speech and not on the side of those damn drug companies that have given us great drugs and have stopped much human suffering.
The drug companies should be sued into oblivion on what they did with Covid. The lied, they manipulated data and made billions with government assured non liability. If sued into oblivion this is not a tragedy. The same scientists and researchers will continue to work for who bought the company at a wholesale price and they will continue their good work.
I have seen drug studies that were manipulated and oddly everything they said in the studies was true. You can set up a drug trial to give the desired outcome. The biggest sin is leaving out information.
This happened with Merck. They produced Vioxx a very effective COX 2 inhibitor non steroidal (like Advil or Motrin) with none of the bad side effects, except a little thing like heart attacks. They paid 4.5 billion dollars in fines. THEY HID DATA! I personally think those behind this should have been charged with manslaughter. Not negligent manslaughter but just plain damn simple manslaughter. They knew!
Years ago I was a newly minted pharmacist. If Merck, Pfizer, Lilly, Astra, Glaxo, etc. said it we believed as they were ethical companies. Today they are not.
Why?
They didn't used to be allowed and there was no issue then. We got along just fine without them then.