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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?
Of course it will be easy, comparatively. Yeah, there'll be a drop in ad revenue, but most countries don't allow this shit anyways.
Remember, this would probably include flu/COVID vaccines at CVS just as much as restless leg syndrome pills. Just because the words "ban drug ads" sound like a good thing doesn't mean the implementation is acceptable. Don't throw the baby out with the bath water.
Weird people on this platform. It's OK to agree with people you dislike sometimes.
The message Lemmings desperately need to hear
Broken clock
Yeah the other thing I agree with him on is bringing in Joel Salatin’s approach to regenerative agriculture. This is all about building up soil health and soil ecosystems rather than conventional fertilizer and heavy tillage.
yeah curiously this is like the second thing I could actually get behind.
For every good idea he has 5 very bad and/or dangerous ones.
He just wants to get rid of the entire healthcare system.
It seems like the combination of project 2025 and RFK has the goal of making the masses sick and weak, so every minority can be targeted and replaced by evangelical over breeders.
So, a modern spin on white eugenics.
Ok
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.
Ban anything with FDA approval.
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That would be awesome. However, some TV channels are nothing but pharma ads, so they would fold overnight, no more funding.
My wife has had Hallmark on over the holiday vacation and this channel is pretty much nonstop pharma ads.
It struck me after the first hour or so that every ad break wasn’t like the usual network collage of various garbage with an occasional ad for this or that medication thrown in. It was literally every ad on their network.
That's because Hallmark is mostly watched by old people.
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.
He's just fishing for pharmaceutical industry "donations".
As a Canadian it's very weird to me that it's allowed in the USA.
As a Canadian who lives close enough to the boarder to pick up US OTA TV, it's one of the most stark signs you're watching an American station.
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 :(
"No way to fix this" says only country where this happens
If he would just get on board with vaccines and generally not be crazy, he might actually do some good here in other areas. Too bad we can’t have a non-crazed person do some of these things
'member that time some crazy person tried to do that thing? that was crazy. are you trying to do that same thing? you must be crazy like that crazy person.
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.
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.
When I used to live/work abroad then come 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