Archive for the 'advertising and medicine' Category

Tests of Supplements–Designed to Fail

Monday, December 15th, 2008

The mass media have done it again. Another news story reported on every network that Vitamins C and E are useless–might even do you harm though they didn’t even pretend to have any evidence for that claim. Of course, these reports are delivered by M.D.s who have no training in nutrition and journalists who evidently [...]

Media coverage of health in critical condition

Friday, May 16th, 2008

The advocacy organization MoveON sent out an alert last week for members to attend an upcoming national conference on media reform. The fourth conference on media reform will be held June 6-8 in Minneapolis, and if I were in the US, I wouldn’t miss it. Journalists Dan Rather and Bill Moyers will be there, [...]

Drugging our Kids

Monday, October 15th, 2007

The US direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising has been immensely successful. Pharmaceutical sales and profits are up, and Americans take pharmaceutical drugs as a casually as a cup of coffee.
Since 1998 Americans have been trained by 12 minutes per hour every evening to diagnose and ‘medicalize’ every itch, twitch and inconvenient emotion. We use to call [...]

 

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