Pharmaceutical Medicine and TV Ads | Grand Hoax and Blatant Lies
Pharmaceutical Medicine and TV Ads | Grand Hoax and Blatant Lies
Submitted by Xi-Wang
TV drug adverts employ such blatant deceptions and exaggerations that even the medical journals are beginning to disapprove the practice. Recently the Annals of Family Medicine published an analysis of popular drug advertisements that concluded that the ads essentially lie to the public about the benefits of pharmaceuticals while completely ignoring alternative health strategies such as dietary or lifestyle changes.
The advertising practices of big pharma corporations are so grossly outrageous that even David Kessler, the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, wrote an editorial condemning them. In fact, Kessler says TV ads should never have been permitted by the FDA in the first place - the FDA legalised drug ads in late 1997, once Kessler left his position there. The USA is the ONLY industrialised nation in the world to allow drug ads to be shown on TV.
The way in which the adverts lie to viewers is as follows:
Basically healthy, fit looking actors ROLEPLAY a make believe story. To start with the actor seems to be down in the dumps whilst suffering from some ailment such as a headache, runny nose, cold and so on and so forth. Then, they take the drug and hey presto they are magically changed into states of perfection - they are happy, everyone is happy, the world is happy etc. Obviously the narration never directly states that these drugs will change your life and make you a happy, youthful, organized and successful person. Rather, this is implied through association by a carefully designed formula of TV influence that exerts its power through the messages that are not directly stated.
Aftershave companies do much the same thing when they show after shave users surrounded by sexy young women - think LYNX. It gets put into the subconscious minds of male viewers that a particular brand of aftershave will make them attractive to women. The thing is, it doesn’t have to be stated - it is presented in context, using body language and associative conditioning that the subconscious mind immediately understands.
Big pharma utilises the same influence strategies by associating their brand-name drugs with images of cheerful, successful, vibrant people on top of the world. The message they convey is ‘take our drugs and you’ll be just like these people’.
THEY are Pulling Our Legs
Pharmaceuticals DONT treat health conditions, merely the symptoms. These drugs have NEVER cured anyone, nor made them fundamentally healthier. In fact, most conventional medicine cause damage to various organs of the body, including the liver, heart, brain and kidneys. Many can cause heart attacks and strokes, and practically ALL conventional medications cause nutritional deficiencies that are almost never mentioned by doctors, drug companies or even the FDA. On top of this, most drugs don’t even work for most people. To be approved by the FDA, medicines only have to demonstrate SOME effect on about 5% of those who take it.
Even the FDA approval of today’s popular pharmaceuticals is based nearly completely on counterfeit science, manipulated by drug companies to produce the statistics wanted by them so the corrupt FDA decision makers can approve them for widespread use. And the drug approval panels are purposefully and routinely stacked with decision makers who maintain strong financial ties to the very drug companies impacted by their votes.
There is also the bogus practice of off-label prescribing, meaning that a drug approved for ANY condition can be legally prescribed for ALL conditions, no matter if it has had a single test for those conditions or not. E.g. a drug approved for migraines can be legally prescribed for heart disease, even if it hasn’t undergone a single clinical trial for heart disease.
Today pharmaceutical medicine is a grand hoax involving the mainstream media, the FDA, drug companies, medical journals, medical schools and even M.D.s. They have all quietly agreed to do whatever it takes to make as much profit as possible, at the expense of public health, not even considering the science or the ethics involved. The so called “evidence-based medicine” has become modern day quackery. For instance, statin drugs, have now been proven to give women no medical benefit whatsoever, and reducing the risk of heart attacks or strokes by 0. It has been scientifically proven that HRT drugs actually cause breast cancer and heart attacks, and don’t prevent them. The list goes on…
This obviously doesn’t even concern the FDA and drug companies. They keep on promoting these toxic chemicals through fraudulent TV ads that are highly effective at selling products, but totally useless at improving peoples’ health. The compassion has gone, the greed is here - greed for more money. The more people who stay ill, the more money is to be had.
The following information is shocking - 2million+ Americans are harmed each year by pharmaceuticals, and over 100,000 are killed by FDA-approved drugs. The FDA has become the top most dangerous organisation in North America.(more deadly than terrorists and nukes!)
Pharmaceutical medicine has now become the single greatest danger to the health and safety of the American people
The time of pretending that synthetic chemicals are a cure-all must come to an end in the USA and across the globe. Its time for natural health solutions that really work. Diabetes, heart disease, cancer, depression, osteoporosis and Alzheimer’s are curable.
The people must start healing through things that really work - nutrition, sunlight, herbs, exercise and avoidance of toxic chemicals in their foods, homes and personal care products.
The quackery of modern medicine must come to an end and so must the profiteering from human suffering. The patent protection for medicines must be halted, TV ads must be banned and the censorship of nutritional supplements must be ended.
Filed under: Dare 2B Aware on January 3rd, 2008
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