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How many people actually end up "asking their doctor about flubblubgeriatricide" for their "heart valve issue"?
I think it depends on drug class.
A lot of customers are going to see happy actors in ads shilling depression or sleeping or boner or psoriasis pills and will ask for them by name because they are promising a better lifestyle.
You are correct that some of the more technical and mundane stuff isn't going to be as popular.
That being said, I'm not seeing ads on TV current day for the mundane heart stuff. It's all diabetes and depression and psoriasis and asthma.
"The Night of the Mary Kay Commandoes"
Two weeks worth of Bloom County got banned from most newspapers in the 1980s because of a storyline that blasted animal testing of cosmetics, because the newspapers in question got big bucks from cosmetics advertising.
I fucking hate the cosmetics industry.
Well, duh. Why do you think governments run ad campaigns in the media for shit nobody cares about? They don't give a shit about the campaign. It's just a way to bribe the media.
Y'know I never even thought about it like that. "Hey, talking head news anchor! Spew our propaganda or we'll cut funding and you'll be out of a job!"
All you need to do is stop and ask why is X company advertising?
If they're not selling something like a service or a product; then it's most likely the above.
For example; I've been getting Snapdragon adverts on YT. Advertising this just doesn't make sense at all- most phones have an SD processor and to over 99% of the population its irrelevant. Because they'd just buy a Samsung, or OnePlus, or whatever.
It's like Boeing running adverts for a new jet engine.
It all just stinks and makes me wonder what they're paying for- whether it's innocent enough or if they're hiding something.
What is Ozempic?
So push for Americans to get fat then offer them a weight loss drug? Sounds about right.
“They’ve already bought off the doctors.” This is quite true. Doctors don’t treat patients anymore. They push pills. If there was a pill to mend broken bones and stitch up wounds they would push that as well. (They do have those pain meds however!)
I’ve become such a distrustful cynic of our healthcare industry since 2020…. And I’ve always been a little skeptical. they are as untrustworthy as big government at this point.
That shit that Bill Burr shills on his podcast without knowing what it is.
All because so few have the willpower to just STOP EATING
Um, that used to be a promise that they showed in futuristic shit like The Jetsons (and Harry Potter had it, too, in a magical medicine form.)
Just like all the old dystopia movies/novels promised us that dystopia would begin more or less at 8 billion humans, complete with "genetic engineering to make bigger tomatoes to feed all those starving African chillun" ...
Of course it seems obvious. He is deliberately saying it in the exact way you want to hear it and he knows that. A greasy, wide eyed "former insider" comes onto a news show and describes how everything is an "open secret" (so they know how evil they are) and its so much more "insidous" than you'd ever imagine! Why we have never seen that before!
Looking up anything about this guy reveals he is an "insider" because his wife was a doctor and they founded a company to say "the medical industry is a sham, buy my book to unlock the huge secret they don't want you to know" which seems to just be them telling you to eat healthy and you suddenly aren't as sick. And he has been doing the rounds on every Mainstream Right wing-ish network as the "insider" to shill this book.
So its just a random grifter who only seems more credible now because Covid sowed enough distrust in the industry that the obvious scam he is running isn't as obvious.
And he might in fact be telling the truth, but everything about him and the way he is delivering it makes him only a margin more trustable than the Mainstream News he has been all over. Unless you guys suddenly think Fox News (where he was on just as recently as Tucker) is letting on real dudes spewing real talk.
Defense contractors too.
Eh, at some point the cost becomes large enough that the licenses does not matter, then it just whether you sell yourself to a corpo or not.
How long before these people start treating these shows like a public confessional, confident that no one will believe their blatant admissions as long as tucker carlson or some other right winger name is next to it?
~Nobody asks.
Heh, yeah. If TV ads make any money for the pharma corpos, then why aren't they advertising all of their products there? How much of a jump in profits do they see from the occasional nasal drops or indigestion tablets? Yeah, obvious.
Huh?
No one wants to wade through two hours of meandering interview without some time stamps or a summary.