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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Iron_Chef" data-source="post: 1637324" data-attributes="member: 4530">I hate the pharmaceutical commercials for all those damn pills, with glossed over side effects like "liver failure, death and/or diarrehea." But in particular, I hate the new commercial that has people saying defeatist comments like: "I don't want to be a famous artist, I just want to hold a paintbrush with less pain" --- which translates in my mind as "I want to be a loser who doesn't stick it out from the crowd and never does anything with my life." IMO, if you pick up a paintbrush, you should have aspirations to be a great at painting (not necessarily museum great, but good enough to sell your work if you wanted) or else you really have no business even lifting that brush at all. Go do something else you could be great at... Why people are willing to accept mediocrity for themselves and their loved ones is beyond me when there is clearly a choice. These kinds of commercials are dangerous, because they brainwash people into thinking they're losers and damn lucky just to be able to take a stupid, overpriced pill that may cripple or kill them because it hasn't been tested properly, and the side effects not adequately revealed to them beforehand. Those drug companies spend billions marketing their crap every year and a drug commercial is on TV every 60 seconds. Doctors are in on the conspiracy to mass-medicate the public, too. They get bribes from the drug companies to push certain pills on their patients. What you are prescribe from one doctor to another for the same symptoms could differ greatly, depending on which drug company's pocket each doctor is in. The drug companies figure it's cheaper to settle lawsuits from victims of their products than spend a few extra years testing them --- it's better for their stockholders to get it out quick... screw the poor suckers that actually take the damn drug. And have you noticed that there are no new cures coming out? That's because there's no money in cures for the drug companies --- everything is about "symptom management"! So you're stuck taking their stupid, dangerous pills the rest of your life if you catch something. And they're making up new diseases like "nervous anxiety disorder" so they can get doctors to prescribe their pills more for conditions that may not warrant medication. Their goal is to get the world hooked on their (legal) drugs and damn the consequences. Plus, they are price-fixing in the US and lobbying to limit Americans access to their (lower-priced) pills shipped in from other countries. It's a national travesty.</blockquote>

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