I read in my print-media paper that RFK Jr's stacked advisory board was loosening restrictions on peptides, a supplement which the actual professionals say has unknown risks and unproven benefits. Guess what, kids! Turns out that a good number of the board members stand to benefit from the decision.
The absolute worst and ones that should put the advertisers in hell are the ones for chemo drugs specifically targeted for someone with like “Stage 4 H5R2 YRG type 16 H+ prostate cancer that didn’t respond to treatment with FUSideways type 12 chemotherapy” that claims you will “live longer (on average)” if you take it.
1. They aren’t promising a cure, just maybe a few more days or weeks (maybe), and probably in misery.
2. They are preying on people who have incurable cancer who are desperate for a miracle that they don’t offer.
3. Then this person begs their oncologist, which is exactly the purpose of the commercial because the oncologist likely knows better than to give them false hope along with nasty potential side effects and that’s why they didn’t prescribe it in the first place so they want the MD to relent in the face of this desperation.
4. In the persons last dying weeks they charge them for a $500,000 treatment that really didn’t help.
It truly angers me to picture the poor patients, their grieving families and oncology MDs being forced to have excruciating conversations about why what is in the commercial with flowers and butterflies and an old man holding his grandkids isn’t the reality. It’s making them go through the 5 stages of grief all the fuck over again.
The best word for what these commercials are is “obscene”
I find it more than a bit disturbing that there is one drug that warns that a side effect could involve "an infection between the anus and genitals that could be fatal".
ASK YOUR DOCTOR IF BECOMING A NEEDY SELFISH BILLIONAIRE BENT ON DESTROYING THE UNITED STATES REPUBLIC AND STRIPPING THE COUNTRY FOR CASH AND PARTS IS RIGHT FOR YOU!
What bothers me is that in medical school, in Bedside Manner 101, they teach the doctors how
to act, facial expressions, body language, words, trigger phrases to tell questing patients what drugs they are taking. And should be taking. But they fail to mention everything the drugs do to your body. They don't call them "bad things," they call them "side effects."
For some doctors that didn't come to class that day, they don't even know how to act.
True Story: One time in the hospital, I asked the side effects of 2 drugs a doctor wanted me to
take. Blank stare. She looked at the time on her phone, then Googled one of the drugs and
showed me the side effects of one. She noticed I had my phone and said I could look up both
of them myself as well. I thought 'Cool.' I always wanted to be a doctor. But on tee vee.
Bang the nurses and get $$$. But I just said I would and let her know. She left without another
I still am not entirely sure what Jardiance is for and what story it has to tell. I keep getting it confused with giardiniera. I would maybe sing about giardiniera.
i seem to recall some drug about 20 years ago acknowledging that a side effect was "oily discharge", and i didn't even want any further clarification. EWWWWWW.
also too, "let your doctor know if you have an allergy to" whatever, when you haven't been prescribed it yet, how would you know? or am i misunderstanding the ads? and if i can't understand the ads, what about the 30 or 40 americans dumber than me, how are they supposed to get effective medical treatment?
Screech doesn’t get to touch the donors’ money. He can push raw milk and measles, but he doesn’t get to do anything with Big Pharma and Big Ag.
Obligatory...
"My Bathroom"
from "Everything's Coming Up Profits: The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals"
https://youtu.be/SKSe5ZKBcZc?si=bRBsZlXH11RM-Wdz
That SNL ad is absolutely perfect.
I read in my print-media paper that RFK Jr's stacked advisory board was loosening restrictions on peptides, a supplement which the actual professionals say has unknown risks and unproven benefits. Guess what, kids! Turns out that a good number of the board members stand to benefit from the decision.
The corruption is ... breathtaking.
(these kinds of ads, and really, the ad industry in general, make me all the more certain my decision to get rid of my teevee was a good one)
Whar Hydroxybonercream and Horse Paste ads?!!?
The absolute worst and ones that should put the advertisers in hell are the ones for chemo drugs specifically targeted for someone with like “Stage 4 H5R2 YRG type 16 H+ prostate cancer that didn’t respond to treatment with FUSideways type 12 chemotherapy” that claims you will “live longer (on average)” if you take it.
1. They aren’t promising a cure, just maybe a few more days or weeks (maybe), and probably in misery.
2. They are preying on people who have incurable cancer who are desperate for a miracle that they don’t offer.
3. Then this person begs their oncologist, which is exactly the purpose of the commercial because the oncologist likely knows better than to give them false hope along with nasty potential side effects and that’s why they didn’t prescribe it in the first place so they want the MD to relent in the face of this desperation.
4. In the persons last dying weeks they charge them for a $500,000 treatment that really didn’t help.
It truly angers me to picture the poor patients, their grieving families and oncology MDs being forced to have excruciating conversations about why what is in the commercial with flowers and butterflies and an old man holding his grandkids isn’t the reality. It’s making them go through the 5 stages of grief all the fuck over again.
The best word for what these commercials are is “obscene”
Is it just me, but aren't those Jardiance ads the most college gay theater geek things ever?
I find it more than a bit disturbing that there is one drug that warns that a side effect could involve "an infection between the anus and genitals that could be fatal".
Dear God, don't let me go that way.
Fatal Taintitis.
By an odd coincidence, "an infection between the anus and genitals that could be fatal" is a side effect of most GOP political campaigns.
Trump rump.
ASK YOUR DOCTOR IF BECOMING A NEEDY SELFISH BILLIONAIRE BENT ON DESTROYING THE UNITED STATES REPUBLIC AND STRIPPING THE COUNTRY FOR CASH AND PARTS IS RIGHT FOR YOU!
Doctor Admiral Ronny Jackson says "Go for it!" *hic*
What bothers me is that in medical school, in Bedside Manner 101, they teach the doctors how
to act, facial expressions, body language, words, trigger phrases to tell questing patients what drugs they are taking. And should be taking. But they fail to mention everything the drugs do to your body. They don't call them "bad things," they call them "side effects."
For some doctors that didn't come to class that day, they don't even know how to act.
True Story: One time in the hospital, I asked the side effects of 2 drugs a doctor wanted me to
take. Blank stare. She looked at the time on her phone, then Googled one of the drugs and
showed me the side effects of one. She noticed I had my phone and said I could look up both
of them myself as well. I thought 'Cool.' I always wanted to be a doctor. But on tee vee.
Bang the nurses and get $$$. But I just said I would and let her know. She left without another
word. Now I think she didn't even take BM 101.
Tell your doctor that you've watched a commercial about your symptoms and insist that means you know better than they do.
I still am not entirely sure what Jardiance is for and what story it has to tell. I keep getting it confused with giardiniera. I would maybe sing about giardiniera.
Didn’t Godzilla fight Giardia in a movie one time? It was a really big mess.
It sounds like a landscaping service.
Jardiance vs Jardiance was the main law case in Dickens' 'Bleak House'
ok, but not the hot kind.
i seem to recall some drug about 20 years ago acknowledging that a side effect was "oily discharge", and i didn't even want any further clarification. EWWWWWW.
also too, "let your doctor know if you have an allergy to" whatever, when you haven't been prescribed it yet, how would you know? or am i misunderstanding the ads? and if i can't understand the ads, what about the 30 or 40 americans dumber than me, how are they supposed to get effective medical treatment?
Was that like the low calorie potato chips/crisps?
They didn't catch on over here, in the UK, after the warnings over "anal leakage".
Olestra FTW!
double ew. but i don't think potato chips had to disclose side effects and even if they had, i wouldn't have lost any weight anyway.
I don’t think I’ve heard the Skyrizi jingle. I aggressively mute commercials. Would that there were also a screen-blank button.
I don't watch tv so I don't get the pharm ads - but I do watch the Youtube and
1. as a ad before the tube gives me my music I have an ethereal woman who KNOWS that there is a churning in The Invisible etc etc
2. ads on the same page show me that "if you say these 5 words you will come down with Alzheimers in 10 DAYS!!!"
3. If you are eating beats you are doing it all wrong
4. there is that white-haired 'doctor' with the turquoise glasses "NEVER EAT GINGER!!"
those are all pretty big bummers
they sure are - just reading them sets me up for depression, fatigue, memory loss, and fugue state.
whoa!
is fugue state like when you are posting your musical choices?
I need a drug that makes me stop seeing drug commercials.
"Ask your doctor if Turnitalloff is right for you!
Huey does, too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6uEMOeDZsA