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Old 05-18-2008, 09:36 AM
Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD
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Default Re: Many Scientists are Coming to View our Medical Literature asPropaganda

Marshall Price wrote:
- quote -

> Tim Campbell wrote:
> > Do Pharmaceutical Commercials Benefit Americans?
> >
> > On this week�s JOURNAL, Bill Moyers spoke with Melody Petersen, an
> > independent journalist who formerly covered the drug industry for the
> > NEW YORK TIMES and is author of OUR DAILY MEDS: HOW THE PHARMACEUTICAL
> > COMPANIES TRANSFORMED THEMSELVES INTO SLICK MARKETING MACHINES AND
> > HOOKED THE NATION ON PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.
> > Addressing how advertising and marketing have affected the
> > prescription drug business, Petersen said:
> >
> > �A very powerful technique that the drug companies spend millions and
> > millions of dollars on is hiring physicians to give lectures to other
> > physicians on their drugs. It looks like the physician is up there
> > giving his independent position on this drug, but often he�s been
> > trained by an advertising agency. His slide presentation has been
> > created by an ad agency. It looks like independent science, but it�s
> > not... They want to get as many articles published in our medical
> > journals as they can that show their products in favorable lights and
> > will get physicians to prescribe them, so they often hire a Madison
> > Avenue ad agency to write up an article for them or a study. The name
> > of the ad agency rarely appears in the published version; instead,
> > they hire doctors to put their names on as author... It�s gone so far
> > that some independent scientists are starting to view our medical
> > literature as propaganda.�
> >
> > Others, including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), argue
> > that �direct to consumer� ads help educate and engage prospective
> > patients about their healthcare options.
> >
> > http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/blog/

>
> Yes, it is indeed scandalous. Only the USA and New Zealand permit
> direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs, and the long lists
> of warnings such commercials include are glossed over so quickly and in
> such a low-key tenor that "consumers" don't get a chance to consider
> them carefully.
>
> But the most extraordinary aspect of this profit-driven trend is the
> invention of questionable new diseases to be cured by expensive drugs to
> be taken every day, and forever.


The love of money is at the root of all evil.

The love of LORD Jesus Christ is at the cure.


Be hungry... be healthy... be hungrier... be healthier...

Prayerfully in the awesome name of LORD Jesus Christ,

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  #40  
Old 05-18-2008, 07:49 AM
Marshall Price
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Default Re: Many Scientists are Coming to View our Medical Literature asPropaganda

Tim Campbell wrote:
- quote -

> Do Pharmaceutical Commercials Benefit Americans?
>
> On this week’s JOURNAL, Bill Moyers spoke with Melody Petersen, an
> independent journalist who formerly covered the drug industry for the
> NEW YORK TIMES and is author of OUR DAILY MEDS: HOW THE PHARMACEUTICAL
> COMPANIES TRANSFORMED THEMSELVES INTO SLICK MARKETING MACHINES AND
> HOOKED THE NATION ON PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.
> Addressing how advertising and marketing have affected the
> prescription drug business, Petersen said:
>
> “A very powerful technique that the drug companies spend millions and
> millions of dollars on is hiring physicians to give lectures to other
> physicians on their drugs. It looks like the physician is up there
> giving his independent position on this drug, but often he’s been
> trained by an advertising agency. His slide presentation has been
> created by an ad agency. It looks like independent science, but it’s
> not... They want to get as many articles published in our medical
> journals as they can that show their products in favorable lights and
> will get physicians to prescribe them, so they often hire a Madison
> Avenue ad agency to write up an article for them or a study. The name
> of the ad agency rarely appears in the published version; instead,
> they hire doctors to put their names on as author... It’s gone so far
> that some independent scientists are starting to view our medical
> literature as propaganda.”
>
> Others, including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), argue
> that “direct to consumer” ads help educate and engage prospective
> patients about their healthcare options.
>
> http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/blog/


Yes, it is indeed scandalous. Only the USA and New Zealand permit
direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs, and the long lists
of warnings such commercials include are glossed over so quickly and in
such a low-key tenor that "consumers" don't get a chance to consider
them carefully.

But the most extraordinary aspect of this profit-driven trend is the
invention of questionable new diseases to be cured by expensive drugs to
be taken every day, and forever.

--
Marshall Price of Miami
Known to Yahoo as d021317c
  #39  
Old 05-17-2008, 04:14 AM
Tim Campbell
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Default Many Scientists are Coming to View our Medical Literature asPropaganda

Do Pharmaceutical Commercials Benefit Americans?

On this week’s JOURNAL, Bill Moyers spoke with Melody Petersen, an
independent journalist who formerly covered the drug industry for the
NEW YORK TIMES and is author of OUR DAILY MEDS: HOW THE PHARMACEUTICAL
COMPANIES TRANSFORMED THEMSELVES INTO SLICK MARKETING MACHINES AND
HOOKED THE NATION ON PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.
Addressing how advertising and marketing have affected the
prescription drug business, Petersen said:

“A very powerful technique that the drug companies spend millions and
millions of dollars on is hiring physicians to give lectures to other
physicians on their drugs. It looks like the physician is up there
giving his independent position on this drug, but often he’s been
trained by an advertising agency. His slide presentation has been
created by an ad agency. It looks like independent science, but it’s
not... They want to get as many articles published in our medical
journals as they can that show their products in favorable lights and
will get physicians to prescribe them, so they often hire a Madison
Avenue ad agency to write up an article for them or a study. The name
of the ad agency rarely appears in the published version; instead,
they hire doctors to put their names on as author... It’s gone so far
that some independent scientists are starting to view our medical
literature as propaganda.”

Others, including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), argue
that “direct to consumer” ads help educate and engage prospective
patients about their healthcare options.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/blog/
 
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