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In response to
"Why mixed feelings? Between his daughter and doctors saving his leg, he seems like a perfect spokesman. -- nm"
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David
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I think he’s terrific, and anti-cancer efforts are obviously great; but ad campaigns by pharma companies with their varied and assorted evils in the
Posted by
i.b.! (aka starrynut)
Feb 12 '24, 15:54
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mix, and Pfizer in particular with their many scandals over the years (for which they’ve had to pay billions of $) including some that have directly caused harm to kids, pricing of drugs in the U.S. including for medications for kids, and more badness isn’t countered by them.
I’m not against profit, and there’s huge expense to get drugs and other treatments to market; but what pharma has done/continues to do is gross, paying big $ for a SB ad when people can’t afford prescriptions because of them (even if they sometimes toss a bone and give coupons or whatever), when they have let multiple drugs get to shortage stages, and more - it’s hard to know all that and see someone as smart as alex associating himself with them.
I hope the campaign helps people, I just also hope it doesn’t give the dark side of things be less dark?
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