Posted on 12/23/2024 9:02:39 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
It will take a while.
In the meantime Izervay will have RFK going slower ...
1. Sean Hannity writes a book (obviously with the help of a ghostwriter, since a publisher won’t accept a manuscript written in crayon).
2. Pfizer buys ten million copies of the book and tosses them in the trash.
3. Hannity spends the next six months babbling on his show every night about how wonderful Pfizer’s 17th-generation COVID booster is. He even gets Lindsey Graham on his show to say the same thing.
THE END.
Very important to empower the government to regulate what information is safe for us to see. nothing can go wrong here. /s
“If you ban drug ads, my border collie will be out of a job!”
If you ban drug ads, my remotes’ “mute” buttons won’t wear out so fast.
I’m absolutely amazed at the side effects for most of these drugs. You gotta really be sweating your skin rash to risk them.
I really don’t see it as a 1st Amendment issue, as companies are not citizens.
The US citizen owners should be free to say what they want, however.
If anyone compared the damage done to public health by tobacco that resulted in ads for it being banned vs that caused by Big Pharma this wouldn’t even be a discussion.
That was the warning on Ruffles made with Olestra / Olean.
I would completely agree with this. Some of these ads can almost convince you that you have the ailment itself.
Broadcast TV will go bankrupt without getting revenue from drug companies.
Or maybe they’d have to improve their content.
On the streaming things we watch, we get a lot of HIV drug ads.
What possible website did we visit to give that an ad preference?
Oh, yes. “The Center for Science and the Public Interest.”
And that was back in 1996. I remember because Rush would show those ads and it the last year of his TV show.
Same group that year released what was presented as a bombshell study and had a widely covered, dramatic press conference that donuts and similar foods were loaded with calories and not healthy.
I was describing my own “uncontrollable greasy discharge,” along with that of others who had more than 8-10 Olestra potato chips.
You seem to not know, so here's something for you to read:
https://www.cracked.com/article_28476_the-potato-chip-that-destroyed-bowels-america.html
Google sez:
The United States and New Zealand are the only countries that legally allow direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising.
I’d like to see it stopped. I doubt it will be. Big Pharma advertises heavily on TV and in the print media. TV and publishers don’t want to lose the revenue, so they will publish only stories favorable to Big Pharma.
I don’t believe it was ever illegal for lawyers to advertise. It was considered unethical by the Bar association. Nowadays what’s ethical vs unethical in regard to lawyers.
YES! YES! YES! When I’m too tired to read, I watch TV in the evenings and the pharma ads take up more time than an actual movie.
“”and half of each of those ads is spent listing side effects.””
Half the time we aren’t even told what the drug is for. In addition to: “do not take if you’re allergic”....How would one know?
AND - “call your doctor right away and discuss XXXYYYZZZ.”
Right - will get right on that! Sure would be a surprise to my doctor!
Drug ads:
10 seconds to tell what a drug can do FOR you.
20 seconds to tell you what it can do TO you.
And since it is a new drug, how does a person know if they are allergic to it?
This Product Contains Olestra. Olestra may cause abdominal cramping and loose stools. Olestra inhibits the absorption of some vitamins and other nutrients. Vitamins A, D, E, and K have been added.
Wiping after that first and only time of Olestra chips was like removing a bizarre mixture of buttercream frosting and liquid car wax—you needed a shower or two.
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