Pharma Ads

Here's the best Pharma Ad ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IZrYeUX3MI

This is a marvelously succinct send-up of two terrible aspects of health care "marketing".  Pseudoscience garbage is bad enough.  But legitimate medications are being pushed at the uneducated, who are being told to ask for specific drugs by name for diagnoses they are instructed carefully how to imagine.

A responsible FDA would ban all that advertising outright, but "responsible" is not a word that can be associated with our executive branch this year.  Except in the negative sense similar to "guilty."

This article was updated on May 9, 2023

David F