I would like to see all advertising for drug companies stopped. If you can't advertise cigarettes on TV, why should we be subjected to constant, non-stop advertising of drugs whose names we can't pronounce to treat diseases that we've never heard of before? Why can't we go back to a time when we trusted our doctors to tell us what our afflictions are and prescribe what they know is best for us?
I would like to see all advertising for drug companies stopped. If you can't advertise cigarettes on TV, why should we be subjected to constant, non-stop advertising of drugs whose names we can't pronounce to treat diseases that we've never heard of before? Why can't we go back to a time when we trusted our doctors to tell us what our afflictions are and prescribe what they know is best for us?
Those ads are simply to curry favor from the various networks, insuring favorable coverage should any difficult circumstances arise. The more arcane the disease, the more unpronounceable the medication being advertised, the better. Media outlets charge top dollar for those Ads, and the pharmaceutical companies consider it money well spent ... an insurance policy so to speak.
Big Pharma will argue that they have 1st Amendment rights to advertise their poison. Waiting for Team Trump to make their case that these ads should be prohibited.
тАжAnd remember once a network accepts $ from these pharmaceutical companies it pretty much silences that network from criticizing them. I believe thatтАЩs largely their intent.
I would like to see all advertising for drug companies stopped. If you can't advertise cigarettes on TV, why should we be subjected to constant, non-stop advertising of drugs whose names we can't pronounce to treat diseases that we've never heard of before? Why can't we go back to a time when we trusted our doctors to tell us what our afflictions are and prescribe what they know is best for us?
Those ads are simply to curry favor from the various networks, insuring favorable coverage should any difficult circumstances arise. The more arcane the disease, the more unpronounceable the medication being advertised, the better. Media outlets charge top dollar for those Ads, and the pharmaceutical companies consider it money well spent ... an insurance policy so to speak.
Big Pharma will argue that they have 1st Amendment rights to advertise their poison. Waiting for Team Trump to make their case that these ads should be prohibited.
Yes!
That genie is long out of the bottle. At this point the entire 'Allopathic' school/protocol needs revamping.
тАжAnd remember once a network accepts $ from these pharmaceutical companies it pretty much silences that network from criticizing them. I believe thatтАЩs largely their intent.