“Ask Your Doctor:” The Media’s Most Dangerous Tagline
“Ask Your Doctor:” The Media’s Most Dangerous Tagline
by Alan Cassels at Brownstone Institute
Travelling to the US never fails to put me in touch with a part of American culture that I find particularly fascinating, but disturbing. Drugs. Drugs and more Drugs. I’m talking about the in-your-face, 24/7, marketing of the newest, most expensive pharmaceuticals on the planet.
All in the name of health, of course.
You might argue, but so what? Every other consumer product gets advertised in the US—almost everywhere, to everyone, perhaps except tobacco. And lots of those things are bad…
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