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It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall, I Really Don’t Know Health at All

Mad in America

FDA approves Food and Drugs—on the basis of assays. Academics even boast that EBM shackles the pharmaceutical industry. They police advertisements claims but policing the medical literature is not their job. No longer in the business of demonstrating their drug saved lives or got people back to work. What’s an Assay?

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Medication Overload, Part II: The Explosion of Drugs for Kids

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Despite evidence of the dangerous nature of this product, along with mounting pressure from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and child safety advocates, the aspirin industry denied any negligence on their part and instead blamed the reported safety concerns on poor parenting. Which is exactly what happened with children’s aspirin.

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Super Bowl Commercials Prove Advertising is the Ultimate End Game

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Advertisers have also secured premium commercial slots of historic value this year, reminding us why TV ads are still producing record pricing and engagement. Over 10 advertisers have accepted Foxs set rate, while more brands remain on a waitlist after missing out on ad slots when they sold out last November.

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

Mad in America

In these interviews, I have talked about the components of the psychiatric-pharmaceutical-industrial complex, along with how psychiatry meets the political needs of the ruling class and dysfunctional families. Mainstream media is another major player in the psychiatric-pharmaceutical-industrial complex. By 2019, Big Pharma’s $6.6

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For-Profit Healthcare Is a Predator; Its Main Prey Is Our Young

Mad in America

It invests heavily in marketing and advertising. This advertising slogan has been ingrained in our culture ever since. It allowed direct-to-consumer advertising here 9. Govinfo.gov: Food And Drug Administration Modernization Act Of 1997, Public Law 105-115-Nov. What strategies does Big Pharma use to achieve these goals?

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“All Real Living Is Meeting”: Brent Robbins on Love, Death, and the Possibilities of Psychology

Mad in America

Thats not a leap people often makefrom philosophical psychology to critiques of the pharmaceutical industry and medicalization. She was deeply involved in critical psychiatry and critiques of the pharmaceutical industry. This ideal is embedded in media, advertising, fashion, and everyday social expectations.

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How Elon Musk’s government efficiency panel could work

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Ramaswamy, who founded pharmaceutical company Roivant Sciences, has worked with the Food and Drug Administration, an agency he has previously called “corrupt” On social media site X in 2023 he added that “Countless FDA regulations and actions are hypocritical, harmful & unconstitutional.”