When I used to live/work abroad then come back to the US it was so alarming seeing drug commercials again. It just shouldn’t exist. So i completely agree with the worm on this one
Heh, he’s crazy as all get-out, but I agree with getting drug ads away from the uneducated public. If an ad has to have “ask your doctor about”, it shouldn’t exist anywhere, not just TV.
He just wants this one to de-educate people on the existence of drugs in general, but honestly, if you need to see a doctor to talk about them/get them, they don’t need advertising in the first place. It does open up a bigger discussion on knowledge about the availability of pharmaceutical treatments, though, since some people probably ask their doctors about symptom treatment based on ads. It’s purely reactive and the wrong way to take care of your health, but, I won’t ignore the obviously systematic issues with access to affordable healthcare for proactive care, vs. “make this hurting stop” care.
In Canada, they aren’t allowed to tell you what a drug does in the ad, but they still have them. They try to hint at what they do, or just give you a vibe for it.
The classic example is the original series of Viagra ads.
This idea has been around longer than RFK Jr. has been relevant in politics. These ads are illegal in most of the civilized world.
The more I read about him, the more my opinion solidifies that his position is simply: be against all of mainstream medicine.
The U.S. and New Zealand are the only countries that allow direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertisements. In the U.S., television viewers are subjected to an especially increasing volume of drug commercials. In 1996, $550 million was spent by pharmaceutical companies on drugs ads. That number increased more than 10-fold by 2020, reaching $6.58 billion annually.
It’s been a long time since I watched TV here in Brazil, but as far as I know, there are prescription drug ads here too. One brand that suddenly comes to mind is a known painkiller (acetylsalicylic acid), I remember seeing a lot of ads from them during commercial breaks back when I watched TV.
Those ads used to be followed by a quickly-spoken (so fast that it was almost unintelligible) disclaimer “Esse medicamento não deve ser usado em caso de suspeita de dengue. Se persistirem os sintomas o médico deverá ser consultado.” (English translation: “this medication shouldn’t be taken in cases of suspected dengue fever. If the symptoms persist, see a doctor”).
Acetylsalicylic acid is Aspirin, which normally is sold without prescription.
With the rest of the world OTC medication is still advertised, in US though they also advertise medicine that you need your doctor to prescribe.
The ubiquity of the phrase “ask your doctor if x is right for you” in advertising here is gross.
well at least all the people in iron lung machines will be able to watch tv without prescription ads.
(just kidding the supreme court would never allow the feds to restrict corporate speech)
Ooh, anything else about him worth mentioning?
“Man wants to spend time socializing with children and giving them gifts” is an odd lead in for “unapologetic child molester stalks local park”
Why stop there.
This is like when you get the right answer using the wrong formula
Sometimes even a calculator can be a clock.
8:00:85
He’s a weird mix of “cannot be allowed near the job” and great ideas.
Well, two. This and getting the stigma off of psychedelics.
Nothing’s worth having an anti-vaxxer in charge, though. Not even close.
You forgot his third one, he supports stem cell research, which is odd given that his new buddies don’t approve of creating new sources of stem cells (aborted fetal tissue).
Well, IVF is still legal for the time being.
And fun fact! Depending on the facility, if there’s any unused fertilized eggs left the woman/couple can decide to donate them to medical stem cell research facilities.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day
I guess the worm didn’t eat all of it.
That would be awesome. However, some TV channels are nothing but pharma ads, so they would fold overnight, no more funding.
My wife has had Hallmark on over the holiday vacation and this channel is pretty much nonstop pharma ads.
It struck me after the first hour or so that every ad break wasn’t like the usual network collage of various garbage with an occasional ad for this or that medication thrown in. It was literally every ad on their network.
That’s because Hallmark is mostly watched by old people.
Fishing for bribes imo.
Rare RFK W.
Even a blind clock is a horse once in a while
A broken horse will lead a man to water at least twice a day in the bush
The other was avoiding processed foods. I’m guessing he won’t be allowed to implement that either when his boss gets a wheelbarrow full of cash from the McClown.
There’s a shot of RFK and the rest of the Dream Team holding a Big Mac somewhere and he genuinely looks like they’ve asked him to pose with a freshly laid dog turd.
Trump is smiling in the picture like he just made his new stooge pose with a dog turd
Mike johnson photobombing in from the side, trying to be included.
RFK just looks terrible in every picture I’ve seen
Seriously, he gives me major whiplash. Like 90% of his opinions are pure bullshit, but I often agree with the remainder.
He also left the dead carcas of a bear in Central Park.
He also drove over 300 miles to cut the head off a beached whale and bring it home.
RFK does a lot of strange things, and i don’t think it was 100% the brain worm either.
“When your rich they just let you do it” - Some rich asshole
He also had a habit of eating raw or even partly rotten meat for a while IIRC. That’s probably how he got that brain worm.
The behind the bastards podcast about him was a wild ride
“No way to fix this” says only country where this happens
There are fools who believe that Big Pharma won’t take over Big Supplement (and the ads will be for supplements).
Drug ads are the only thing keeping cable TV floating
Two birds with one stone! While I understand there are people who still have cable and a large portion are elderly who are less comfortable with technology …. This just needs to end. Cable TV companies are one of the most exploitive, customer abusing companies there are. Their monopoly is gone (well, ISP monopoly is less than cable monopoly), so let’s just end them. Kick them while they’re down. Usher them into capitalist hell
