Pfizer posts low profits and NYTimes is there with the ad pitch:
What’s funny is that the pitch never changed. It’s still stuck on the “killing grandma” wavelength. Of course, everybody who could have been persuaded by such crude, clumsy manipulation is already a repeat customer for Pfizer.
It looks like the pharma industry is as careless and lazy with promoting its poisons as it is with manufacturing them.
Anyone here for Nuremberg for the pharma industry?
Sticking that out here as an option since I’m related to some people who hunted war criminals for sport and justice.
Seems like a great family tradition to maintain. 🙂
Just thought that the Chief Poisoner’s name was Farcey, but doesn’t it seem appropriate?
Yeah, Modern Medicine Inc isn’t doing so great, and as for Not-So-Modern Medicine Inc, ever considered narrow bandwidth drugs?
Colchicine is a horrible thing that is absolutely necessary in specific doses and also either ineffective or deadly in others.
Check out the “Marketing exclusivity in the United States” section for colchicine on Wikipedia and be amazed at how this sounds like so many other drugs under the auspices of the FDA.
Hey, I know what’s fun, check out “Vancomycin flushing reaction” on the Wikipedia page for vancomycin.
The fools at the hospital turned me red as a beet with that crap.
And, of course, it was utterly useless given what it doesn’t provide coverage for.
Nuremberg was so… European. I suspect if/when we reach that point in the US it won’t look nearly as civilized. Hopefully they’ll all have had the sense to flee to Europe.
Colchicine is another one of those like insulin– there’s no substitute, the people who need it, need it in a bad way, and they’ve recently jacked the price up through the stratosphere even though the stuff’s been around since the Roman Empire and can’t remotely be claimed as under patent. Bastards.
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Do you know the story of how the Nuremberg Tribunal came to be?
Apparently Stalin thought Biddle had a good thing going when he used a tribunal to put criminal bankers on trial in a capitalist country.
So he wanted to see how it’d work on the Nazis.
It’s surprisingly very not European: Biddle was American.
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