Posted on 04/05/2025 1:46:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Other than horrifyingly dictating business that would be funny, because competitors would start buying ads for each other.
This Doctor is trying to bring vaccines developed from T Cells, which increase the power of the immune system, not just help for vaccines that are targetting disease. It would boost the T cells to recognize diseases from all sources.
-PJ
Everybody wants their pet thing done NOW. His priority list might be different for good reason. Let these people do their jobs.
Yes, it makes me fearful to open a new tab or window.
I rarely watch Fox but it’s still better than its rivals. Wish they would find better sponsors, it’s unfortunate the grip Big Pharma has.
Maybe by open a new tab they mean pop open a diet cola drink.
Lol! I had a Tab once, eons ago, it tasted terrible.
Maybe by open a new tab they mean pop open a diet cola drink.
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Open a tab a diet pop. Throw the pop top (tab) on the ground so that barefoot kids can step on it and cut their toes.
No more Tab tabs from pop cans. Also, they outlawed smoking commericals. And burning your garbage.
Don't physicians have enough to deal with without patients nagging them for barely-tested drugs seen on commercials - some likely to be targets of class-action lawsuits in the future? It's not like doctors don't already have drug company representatives dogging them like lobbyists do our politicians.
If nothing else they should stop using purposely bad jingles that earworm the product name into people's heads whether they could use the drug or not. That's just evil.
this is a very interesting point
Remember cigarettes?
Alcohol?
Of course the government can end drug ads.
Cigarettes was done via FCC rule and didn’t apply to cable, satellite, print or the internet. And even the broadcast ban didn’t stop the Winston Cup.
The hard liquor thing was actually self imposed. And ended in 1996 when Seagram decided it was silly and bought ad time on cable.
No the government canNOT end drug ads.
Bates v. State Bar of Arizona &
Virginia State Pharmacy Board v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council
Corporations also have 1st Amendment rights.
If you can’t prove that drug adverts UNIVERSALLY AND WITHOUT EXCEPTION cause doctors to over-prescribe (or other deleterious consequences), then the industry’s 1st Amendment rights must be respected.
No the government canNOT end drug ads.
Cigarettes was done via FCC rule
evidently they can
And you studiously ignore that the FCC ONLY governs broadcast TV and radio. Not cable. Not satellite. Not the internet. And not print.
And let’s focus on that having anything to do with print advertising for a minute. Because once upon a time cigarette ads were ALL OVER print. Every magazine in the country had a dozen cigarette ads. Including the TV Guide. Hmm. Interesting when you think about.
Then of course there’s NASCAR. While the cigarette companies could put ADS on broadcast TV that didn’t stop them from sponsoring the NASCAR title, and individual teams. So you could have the Marlboro car (painted up to look like a pack of reds) competing for the Winston Cup. And while NASCAR might have moved away from the Winston Cup there’s still the teams.
So no, the evidence clearly shows that even when the government can declare a PARTIAL ban (FCC regulated things only) and it can’t actually make a ban that matters.
“Other than horrifyingly dictating business that would be funny, because competitors would start buying ads for each other”
Indeed it would be horrifying. Took me a while to figure out your 2nd observation. Good one!
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