Website review: How the Drug Companies Want Us to B...
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Pankas87 rated 11 months ago- It's not the companies fault that stupid people buy everything that is sold to them.
- uburoi rated 11 months ago
- Nawww really? I thought they wanted us to be well and go bankrupt?
- niceguyjoey rated 17 months ago
- From the page: "Drug corporations and their "awareness" groups, as we're all painfully aware, have defined and redefined a host of medical conditions -- including female sexual dysfunction, erectile dysfunction, restless legs, sleeplessness, bipolar disorder, attention deficit disorder, social anxiety disorder and irritable bowel syndrome -- to include larger and larger segments of the population in the United States and other Western nations." Here's a terrific article detailing the pharmaceutical companies' manipulative practices, the kind of dirty little that the commercial media will never cover. Ever notice how commercials during the evening news are almost exclusively drug ads? And the American media won't bite the hand that feeds it. The author of this story takes the traditional media to task for lazy reporting and serving to propagandize consumers into believingthey are suffering from whatever diseases or syndromes drug companies can make money from: "...[B]etween 2003, when GlaxoSmithKline Inc. first issued press releases about trials of its drug Requip for relief of restless legs syndrome, and 2005, when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved that use... Of 187 major newspaper articles published during those two years, 64 percent relayed without comment the industry's claims that millions of Americans -- as many as '1 in 10 adults' -- suffer restless leg. Forty-five percent of the articles stressed that many people may be unaware they're sick, even though, according to 73 percent of the articles, the syndrome can have extreme physical, social and emotional consequences. Reports of the relief provided by drug treatment used 'miracle language' 34 percent of the time, while 93 percent of articles failed to quantify Requip's side effects." The dangers of consolidated media are everywhere, not just in its repeatedly demonstrated inability to question the president or his administration - the 'news' shills for whoever pays it. And drug companies have substantial advertising budgets.
- kundrol rated 20 months ago
"How the Drug Companies Want Us to Be Sick
by Stan Cox AlterNet
The pharmaceutical industry has a dream: at least one disease (and more than one prescription drug) for every American."
- Apophis rated 25 months ago
- I can't say that I disagree with this theory at all, I do believe whole-heartedly that the pharm. companies want the people to THINK that they are sick...so here's to a $100 placebo for every mouth in the country....dicks.
- opperator rated 25 months ago
- feeling a little ill after all thoes "illnesses" you see on tv? well maybe this is why. From the page: "The pharmaceutical industry has a dream: at least one disease (and more than one prescription drug) for every American."
- parrotgrrl rated 25 months ago
- From the page: "The pharmaceutical industry has a dream: at least one disease (and more than one prescription drug) for every American."
