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ABC News: Scientists Back Brain Drugs for Healthy People"
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This is an example of the kind of junk media that is generated by corporate sponsorship from the pharmaceutical industry. It would be interesting to see how much money is being paid to "encourage" ABC News to broadcast this kind of junk media...
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    • Iain Macadair Iain Macadair
      11 months ago


      I'm so tired of seeing the devastating effects of corporate greed - junk food, junk media, junk entertainment, war, exploitation of children and families, destruction of the environment, and now Big Pharma is trying to convince healthy people that they need to poison themselves with drugs?

      "I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be
      all the better for mankind—and all the worse for the fishes."

      Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-94), speaking to the Massachusetts Medical Society, 1860
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    • Iain Macadair Iain Macadair
      11 months ago


      Follow the money.

      "The pharmaceutical industry is a major sponsor of ABC. For example in 2001 Emory University researchers determined that during one week of television viewing the networks ABC, CBS, and NBC in the Atlanta area ran 907 advertisements for over-the-counter drugs and 428 advertisements for prescription drugs."

      http://www.hpakids.org/holistic-health/articles/159/1/The-Mercury-Autism-Controversy-Heats-Up-Again
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