[packagingguy]

Wearing a lab coat is an “appeal to authority” argument.

It doesn’t make one smarter or wiser, it’s just a “look at my diploma and do what I say”.

[MikelTackNailer]

"Donning their white coats in the crowded hallway, the Democratic doctors began their prepared remarks.

But that area is a major tourist corridor, and the press conference was quickly flooded with tourists walking from the Rotunda past Johnson's office and into Statuary Hall.

The result was unusable to journalists as tour guides and tourists' chatter drowned out their remarks. The Democrats' comments were inaudible."

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They received no deference or respect because everyone assumed they were just actors filming the umpteenth Big Pharma commercial.

"Look out, I'm the little pill with a big big story to tell and here I come!" (cue fat people dancing)

[JeemBeau]

I recall a similar gathering at the White House to promote Obamacare. It turned out that some of those in white coats were not even in the medical field. Perhaps someone renembers this and can post a picture or video?