THE NUMBERS LIE
Next to armaments, which are NEVER discussed in the media, and oil and illegal drugs, the largest and most profitable business in the world is pharmaceuticals. Pills. Prescription drugs.
Why this enormous and often corrupt industry needs and gets the tacit and willing support of organizations that claim to be news gatherers is beyond me. Shall we be simple and just call it MONEY?
The headline today continues the Public Lie: ONE IN SIX North American adults suffer from clinical depression.
This is simply not true.
The so-called gay community managed for a while to convince the public that one in ten persons was homosexual. This is not true.
And so it goes. "Special interests" like the Pill Pushers, who after all have a patina of science and legitimacy on their sides, can corral the public airwaves and spew out this offending nonsense at will. The purpose is simple: SELL MORE PILLS.
No doubt there are many Canadians who are blue, and many Canadians who are miserable, and even many Canadians who might accurately be diagnosed as "clinically depressed." But for every one of those poor souls, there are dozens of sad men and women who are almost casually diagnosed by their doctors as clinically depressed, given their soma tablets and sent into pharmoblivion.
I'm sorry, but is GlaxoSmithKline or Merck or Pfizer paying for this latest onslaught of advertorial hogwash?
Why this enormous and often corrupt industry needs and gets the tacit and willing support of organizations that claim to be news gatherers is beyond me. Shall we be simple and just call it MONEY?
The headline today continues the Public Lie: ONE IN SIX North American adults suffer from clinical depression.
This is simply not true.
The so-called gay community managed for a while to convince the public that one in ten persons was homosexual. This is not true.
And so it goes. "Special interests" like the Pill Pushers, who after all have a patina of science and legitimacy on their sides, can corral the public airwaves and spew out this offending nonsense at will. The purpose is simple: SELL MORE PILLS.
No doubt there are many Canadians who are blue, and many Canadians who are miserable, and even many Canadians who might accurately be diagnosed as "clinically depressed." But for every one of those poor souls, there are dozens of sad men and women who are almost casually diagnosed by their doctors as clinically depressed, given their soma tablets and sent into pharmoblivion.
I'm sorry, but is GlaxoSmithKline or Merck or Pfizer paying for this latest onslaught of advertorial hogwash?
What is depressing is the laziness in the current State of Journalism.
Please use all your remaining common sense and reasoning when reading The Daily Droppings. All is not what it seems.
2 comments:
Down here in the U.S. it's very strange to see ad after ad promoting pharmaceuticals. The funniest part is first hearing the dreamy, wonderful part, followed by all the possible negative repercussions like vomiting, stomach upset, anal leakage (I wish I were kidding), and a host of others. Why would one possibly want to take a chance with such chemicals?
My daughter and I were doing an hysterically funny riff on exactly that subject the other day over lunch. "Take this dreaded poison, which will be like the Fountain of Youth. The only problem is your bowels will collapse and pour out your @#$%^&* and your nose will explode and your liver, kidneys and lungs will seize up. But aside from that, and the worst gas pain you've ever had, it's a peach of a treat. Buy some now!"
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