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Ads, yes. Class action legal ads for pharmasutical side effects/injury can stay. Do your testing ya smucks.
Fuck him and his insane and dangerous suggestions about medical stuff.
But "ask your doctor about X" ads where X is a prescription-only drug should definitely be banned. Why the fuck would I ask my doctor about a medication if they haven't already suggested it to me?
I wonder if that ban includes quack remedies?
Fishing for bribes imo.
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.
This is a good thing. His motivation may be more sinister. It could create a situation where non medical treatments can be advertised without restriction and genuine medicines can’t. It needs to be applied to all treatments, even unregulated ones.
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This is how people end up down conspiracy theory rabbit holes. A conspiracy nut has just enough actually good ideas that people start to think they’re smart and believe the utter nonsense they spew afterwards.
I still don’t like him, but I’d love to see this happen.
Shit so we'd be like Europe? Okay sign me the hell up
We'd be like the US from the time of Teddy Roosevelt until Reagan.
As a Canadian it's very weird to me that it's allowed in the USA.
It's not all that weird when you consider that all of our rules are made with the ownership class in mind.
Company makes more money? That is objectively A Good Thing™ regardless of anything anyone says.
It's gross :(
Honestly kind of weird, you would expect him to allow literally anybody to advertise their drugs from his usual deregulatory stance.
Legitimate good ideas wrapping around a few extremely terrible ones is exactly how people get pulled in to the scam.
Ooh, anything else about him worth mentioning?
"Man wants to spend time socializing with children and giving them gifts" is an odd lead in for "unapologetic child molester stalks local park"
Every once in a while the worm in his brain takes over pulls of something like this