RFK reminds me of something and I just figured out its business suit man. https://vesilsidestudio.artstation.com/store/2Gw/business-suit-man
For as many foolish things Kennedy has talked about wanting to institute, a drug ad ban is not one of them. Kinda awesome, actually.
He’s just copying Canada.
Not exactly worth the damage he’s gonna do, though.
Honestly…… if we can rule out the “vaccine” shit…. Then maybe?
The issue is the people who don’t or who no longer make it mandatory at schools and all of a sudden polio and measles make a massive comeback for the immune compromised
No no, I understand that vaccines are important, you misunderstand my statement.
“If we get rid of rfk’s vaccine bullshit”
I’ll still be in a labor camp for the crime of having ADHD, but sure, take away his stance on vaccines and it’ll all be good
(sorry for being snippy, just pointing out that the vaccine bullshit is just one of the layers of awful he wants to implement, and the drug ad ban is one of the few not horrible things I’ve heard from him)
You’re being overly sensitive here, I gave you the win already.
And no you can’t blame your ADHD for the sensitivity, I have it too.
Chill my guy. I’m no rfk supporter, nor maga enthusiast.
What the hell are you talking about, gave me the win? What does that even mean? That was the only time I’ve ever replied to you.
Whether you meant to or not, you sounded like you were saying the main problem with him was the vaccines, without that he’s not that bad; I was pointing out that he’s promised a lot more bad things than that. I wasn’t even mad or upset or being overly sensitive about it (prickly, maybe, at least in presentation).
I didn’t even accuse you of being an RFK or maga supporter.
And now you’re doing the whole dismissive “don’t be so sensitive” bullshit. Just… Don’t do that.
No, still horrifying unfortunately.
He’s said he’s going to completely halt all infectious disease research.
Ow my brain.
Watch what they do, not what they say. Trump makes empty promises all the time. I’m sure the same is true of Maggot Brain.
He would be fired by trump before this would happen. The reason it is still allowed is because of interest money and this administration is all about money. The only way I would see such ban happening would be banning those ads on TV while enabling them on social media.
Maybe the play is that he threatens to ban them until drug companies talk to him at a dinner and discuss much needed financial support for this administration’s projects.
That’s how trump works, so it is possible that this is the idea.
Every once in a while the worm in his brain takes over pulls of something like this
Hahahahahahha it’s the Futurama intestinal worms lol
A stopped clock…
And for the second time already, yikes.
This would be huge
This is like when you get the right answer using the wrong formula
Sometimes even a calculator can be a clock.
8:00:85
Broken clocks, something something
Disagree. Drug ads are somewhat informative, especially new treatments.
Your PCP probably can’t keep up with all of the new options that show up every month.
Drug ads are somewhat informative
calming music playing over a middle aged couple walking down the street
“Ask your doctor about Brkdncr today.”
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Wow, I have learned so much! I do suffer from trouble sleeping and an upset stomach, woah, so I just need to demand Brkdncr from my doctor (they’re too dumb to know how good it is-they just might not have seen the ads) and I’ll feel good. Yeehaw advertising!
It is your doctors job to keep up with new treatments. And if they’re legitimate they’re not putting out new pills every month
No Other civilized country has drug commercials the way the US does.
How would you know that your dr doesn’t know about a new treatment?
It’s literally their job to keep up to date with potential new treatments. How do you think physicians in counties where these ads are banned manage to do their jobs, do you think they have an illegal stream of MSNBC playing in their offices or something?
I just checked because I wasn’t sure, but some states have no continued medical education requirements, some are pretty weak, and others are pretty good.
Until healthcare is socialized I wouldn’t kneecap it. Ads enhance the current capitalist-driven healthcare system.
Hey, you should learn about a simple concept known as “conflict of interest.” That might help you understand the position of others. Your education arguments are completely irrelevant.
Try again?
So you’re doubling down on the idea that physicians need TV advertising in order to do their jobs?
Weird as hell but you do you.
Yes because the system they operate within isn’t designed to promote education. It’s designed to serve shareholders. Also, medical professionals are human
I recognize that pharmaceutical ads are scum, but the knee jerk reaction to cancel one aspect of the system without evaluating the vacuum left behind once it’s gone isn’t going to benefit anyone.
I have definitely asked my specialist about a specific new drug as a treatment option and 6 months later they were using it successfully with other patients, and a year later with me. This helped me avoid an extremely costly surgery, and kept a number of operations off of the schedule, freeing all of those resources for others.
If ads weren’t allowed, the drug may not have ever been produced because of its cost, and people would either be suffering or getting costly medical procedures.
I’m 100% for socializing healthcare, and believe the US has a real addiction to the current system but banning ads will only cause more harm until the other issues are addressed first.
That is the exception, not the rule.
Most people should be getting their drug news from trade publications and scientific studies, not commercial advertising.
I still believe that advertising drugs to the general public isn’t the answer though.
It will just push the doctors towards the drugs with the heaviest advertisement budget.
Doctors get advertised to too. Only the best of them are actually keeping to what you’d expect. The whole system needs to be changed.
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.
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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.
Why stop there.
calling it now: RFK be gone in less than 6 months
doesn’t say much, considering most of the “best people” trump picks don’t last that long
He might never even get a real appointment. I’m sure Trump’s campaign just wanted him to avoid splitting the vote.
When I used to live/work abroad then vibe 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
Get rid of corn syrup getting added to everything, ban drug ads on TV, I gotta say I don’t disagree with everything this guys says he wants to do but I also feel like it’s mostly just talk.
Corn syrup is no worse for you than any other sugar.
It’s definitely added to a ton of things but that’s because people like sweet shit. The corn syrup doesn’t hurt you - the overconsumption of any refined sugars causes diabetes.
Removing corn syrup and adding white sugar is just as bad.
We overconsume it because it’s in everything because it gets a shitload of subsidies so they look for as many excuses to use it as possible to save money, so, in a sense, yes, corn syrup is bad for you (as is all refined sugar that gets crammed into everything).
I am skeptical that he actually cares about these things that much. This stuff feels like an attempt to whitewash his insanity ahead of confirmation hearings so that senators have some populist cover to vote for captain brain worm.
I think he might actually care about some of the health stuff (even if he’s wrong about some of it) but I don’t know if we’ll see any positive changes because of it.
He’s basically a crystal hippie, just like all the “alternative medicine” people that joined with Trump as soon as the right went full anti-vax during the pandemic. He’s got some nice ideas, from where people like that overlap with the left, but they’re held alongside all the crazy anti-science ones. He’s only as successful as he is because of his name
“No way to fix this” says only country where this happens
I would be curious if a commercial reminding people it’s flu season, or that the new COVID boosters are out would fall under this. As I don’t think banning reminders without a specific drug push is in the spirit of a ban like this, but then looking at who is proposing it gives me pause. And I know that the article mentions seniors seeing vax commercials to remind them, but it doesn’t 100% say if those are included or not.
