Comments on: Big Pharma’s control over the news https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2017/12/15/big-pharmas-control-over-the-news/ NoMoreFakeNews.com Fri, 01 Jun 2018 01:08:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.10 By: Elizabeth Carson-Bird https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2017/12/15/big-pharmas-control-over-the-news/#comment-38363 Fri, 01 Jun 2018 01:08:25 +0000 https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=20015#comment-38363 Jon: Thank you for a great blog. My poor husband is just shy of his 74th birthday and his medicine cabinet is filled with pills and pain killers from the multiple specialists he goes to for his multiple chronic conditions, including rheumatoid arthritis which so far is uncontrollable. He uses a walker, a cane, and for long distances, a wheelchair. I for one refuse to see any doctor except my dentist and a dermatologist who says she herself undergoes no procedure unless obviously a medical necessity. My eye doctor did lasik on me years ago while another eye doctor told me that eventually some of the benefit of lazik will reverse in time. Nothing can be done for old-age eyes. Now, I take no pill, see no doctor, Have never had a wellness check ( too afraid some MD will treat me for some bogus condition), and if I die a few years early, that OK. I will have lived life free from the Pharma-Doctor duo.

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By: Aka Dr. Evie https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2017/12/15/big-pharmas-control-over-the-news/#comment-38362 Mon, 18 Dec 2017 00:58:59 +0000 https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=20015#comment-38362 A modest change to drug ads would improve public health. At present a narrator extols the drugs and then lists the adverse events they have caused. The entire time, the visual imagery is positive and uplifting. At least for the adverse events portion of the ad, the visuals should depict the adverse events. Rash? A Stevens-Johnson Syndrome patient. Sudden death? A real grieving husband and three toddlers. Etc.

I wonder if the law that requires the statements of adverse events doesn’t already require this, without saying so explicitly. That is, if the ads are required to present adverse events, it can be assumed that “as convincingly as alleged benefits are presented” was intended. Keeping the visuals positive almost certainly renders the narration of adverse effects ineffective.

But it’s entirely possible that the law specifically states that the narration, not the ad as a whole, has to present the dark side. I guess that’s pretty likely…got some research to do.

In addition, 50% of the time a drug ad runs, it should lead with the negatives.

Call me a dreamer.

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By: Aka Dr. Evie https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2017/12/15/big-pharmas-control-over-the-news/#comment-38361 Mon, 18 Dec 2017 00:40:23 +0000 https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=20015#comment-38361 Where you say “despite” the drugs someone said you should take, it might be better said as “because of” those drugs. They can cause emotional and belief states, during and after taking them, that are so outside of normal (and horrific) that they cannot be described. Erowid has some stories by people who took haloperidol (Haldol) in attempts to enjoy it recreationally. I don’t recall any positive ones. Drugs.com’s user reviews tell the stories of those prescribed the drug or whose loved ones were. Not pretty.

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By: paschnn1 https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2017/12/15/big-pharmas-control-over-the-news/#comment-38360 Sun, 17 Dec 2017 16:47:25 +0000 https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=20015#comment-38360 I completely sympathize and understand. Back before “sliced bread”, (early ’70’s), I had a breakdown caused by financial concerns during the phony “gas shortage” almost immediately after the creation of the “petro dollar”.

I was a union man and was laid off for months. I can recall “seeing things” and “hearing things” as you did. Back then, T.V. in my area only broadcast until about midnight on Sundays and once I lost that to keep my mind occupied, I had some very, difficult times.

I was never comfortable with the “healthcare” industry so I went to a holistic doctor treating my mother’s cancer, he took one look at me and asked if I was under a lot of stress lately, I explained my disdain for “safe” pharmaceuticals and my desperate need of undisturbed sleep. He put me on vitamin “F” and bone meal and I began sleeping again.

Slowly, over weeks, I was able to clear my head and put all things in perspective. Oddly, once I realized the very worst thing that could happen to me was dying which would end the misery/terror, I began calming down, didn’t worry as much and slowly, over about a year, finally was able to put it into the “memory hole”.

Knowing what you went through, my heart goes out to you. Hang in there, it’ll get better.

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By: Theodore https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2017/12/15/big-pharmas-control-over-the-news/#comment-38359 Sun, 17 Dec 2017 04:01:19 +0000 https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=20015#comment-38359 “Crime that pays is crime that stays.” — Catherine Austin Fitts (https://solari.com/blog/)

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By: Jean https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2017/12/15/big-pharmas-control-over-the-news/#comment-38358 Sun, 17 Dec 2017 03:11:27 +0000 https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=20015#comment-38358 Wherever there is big money…you’ll almost always find corruption and evil.
All that money isn’t gonna help them on Judgment Day…

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By: jacobite2015 https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2017/12/15/big-pharmas-control-over-the-news/#comment-38357 Sat, 16 Dec 2017 12:57:46 +0000 https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=20015#comment-38357 Great post as usual.

With such a huge demand for pharmaceuticals I can see why Big Pharma spends so much dough for TV ads. People want medical drugs! I think you mentioned in a previous post Jon that people taking a multitude of medical drugs wear it like a “badge of honor.” I’m in my middle-age and that is true with so many people in my age demographics. Many of the middle-age and older are so reliant on the meds they take and implicitly trust their doctor (s) that they would take rat poison if they were told it would improve their symptoms.

And people don’t research medical drugs or medical procedures hardly anymore. A plethora of Industry-funding safety studies & buried studies on so many popular drugs that people would be stunned that some of this stuff actually gets approved by the FDA (who would have thought. Lol). And our trusted physicians? They are aware of the publication bias of the industry-funded studies published in the journals and most, IMO, simply don’t care. But I guess why would they if so many people demand the drugs anyway. And the drugs simply treat the symptoms making people more reluctant in making any dietary & lifestyle changes that might improve their condition.
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Granted there are trauma situations from accidents & degenerative joint ailments that might necessitate medical drugs for the short term (I was hit & injured by a careless driver and required NSAIDs/pain meds for several musculoskeletal injuries). However, many other other chronic ailments (e.g., hypertension, diabetes, acid reflux, obesity-related diseases, etc.) can be prevented with regular excercise, healthy organic food, dietary supplements, etc. But sadly many of the population are at all not interested (as we’ve become a very sedentary society with poor eating habits) and demand medical intervention & pharmaceuticals. And Big Pharma is all too willing to oblige laughing all the way to the bank. That’s why you’ll never see a poor Big Pharma sales rep.????

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By: jf1325 https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2017/12/15/big-pharmas-control-over-the-news/#comment-38356 Sat, 16 Dec 2017 09:37:42 +0000 https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=20015#comment-38356 Astounding. Thank you for providing the link.

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By: Satanists Rule The World https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2017/12/15/big-pharmas-control-over-the-news/#comment-38355 Sat, 16 Dec 2017 02:11:00 +0000 https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=20015#comment-38355 The pharma princes actually think what they are doing is hilarious.

According to Del Bigtree, at ACIP (the CDC’s board that votes on whether vaccines go on the childhood schedule), they actually giggle and laugh when approving new vaccines that they know have no evidence of safety or effectiveness.

“We didn’t even have enough cohorts for this study, but we’re going to approve it anyway.”

“AHAHAHA!”

At the one three or four weeks ago, they wanted to add a third MMR vaccine to the schedule, because of the huge mumps outbreaks occurring in populations that are already about 95% fully vaccinated against mumps.

No one asked, “Is it possible this mumps vaccine isn’t working at all?” No. All they wanted to do was add a third one.

“Well, there’s really been no studies about what a third MMR vaccine would do, so we really had to search the dark corners for every little drop of evidence that this would work, but we used computer models, and you know how good they are!”

“AHAHAHA!”

“Approved!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIdHC7FZfB4

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By: Alexis Keiser https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2017/12/15/big-pharmas-control-over-the-news/#comment-38354 Sat, 16 Dec 2017 00:01:20 +0000 https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=20015#comment-38354 I think you are right about this. I had two “psychotic breaks”. One was really bad. Left me in dread and wanting to die. I was in a horrible state for a period of years. Something has definitely happened to me despite being on up to 4 “psychotropic” drugs at a time. I don’t take anything now. Psychosis is bad when it makes the “psychotic” miserable, but I think there is adaptive even divine significance to it. I had previously noticed that psychotics seemed aware of spiritual things. One aspect of psychosis is seeing things that “aren’t there” and believing things are connected in ways that other people don’t think are based in reality. Just as I was “losing it” the second time I began to feel I was living more in an unseen reality. I don’t deny the existence of that eternal, timeless reality. It seems to me I live in both, but am more connected “outside” now.

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