Video Clip: Big Bucks, Big Pharma Documentary
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Newly released by the Media Education Foundation, “Big Bucks, Big Pharma” pulls back the curtain on the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry to expose the insidious ways that illness is used, manipulated, and in some instances created, for capital gain. Focusing on the industry’s marketing practices, media scholars and health professionals help viewers understand the ways in which direct-to-consumer (DTC) pharmaceutical advertising glamorizes and normalizes the use of prescription medication, and works in tandem with promotion to doctors. Combined, these industry practices shape how both patients and doctors understand and relate to disease and treatment. Ultimately, Big Bucks, Big Pharma challenges us to ask important questions about the consequences of relying on a for-profit industry for our health and well-being.
Featuring interviews with Dr. Marcia Angell (Dept. of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Former Editor New England Journal of Medicine), Dr. Bob Goodman (Columbia University Medical Center; Founder, No Free Lunch), Gene Carbona (Former Pharmaceutical Industry Insider and Current Executive Director of Sales, The Medical Letter), Katharine Greider (Journalist; Author, The Big Fix: How the Pharmaceutical Industry Rips Off American Consumers,), Dr. Elizabeth Preston (Dept. of Communication, Westfield State College), and Dr. Larry Sasich (Public Citizen Health Research Group).
Producer/Editor: Ronit Ridberg
Check out: www.mediaed.org
Duration : 0:4:52
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June 17th, 2009 at 12:24 am
teacher kills kid …
teacher kills kid watch?v=LafwsByU5gY
June 17th, 2009 at 12:24 am
BIG PHARMA, BIG …
BIG PHARMA, BIG ILUMINATI.
June 17th, 2009 at 12:24 am
wow crazy
wow crazy
June 17th, 2009 at 12:24 am
its not natural.
its not natural.
June 17th, 2009 at 12:24 am
there is nothing …
there is nothing wrong with smoking weed, hole.
June 17th, 2009 at 12:24 am
The rats are …
The rats are jumping ship.
CHEMRISK - a research company hired by the Corn Refiners has recently taken down it’s YouTube page.
The removal was in response to negative public perception resulting from the high-fructose corn syrup ad campaign. Apparently it has become a liability to defend the sweetener.
See the last remaining ChemRisk video at CornRefinersAssoc on YouTube.
June 17th, 2009 at 12:24 am
Just smoke some Bud …
Just smoke some Bud and chill, its the best natural medicine, if it were legalised, pharmacy corporations would go bankrupt… Thats why they advertise propaganda depicting marijuana as a drug which causes mental illness, they would lose out big time if it were legalised..
June 17th, 2009 at 12:24 am
Yeah smoke weed why …
Yeah smoke weed why not? we have more receptors in our bodies designed for weed use than any other breath.
June 17th, 2009 at 12:24 am
smoke weed?
yeah …
smoke weed?
yeah good advice tard.
June 17th, 2009 at 12:24 am
All you need is …
All you need is knowledge (intelligence) and willpower to lead a healthy life. Unfortunately most of the world has neither.
June 17th, 2009 at 12:24 am
normal human …
normal human emotions !!!!
WTF is wrong with people
ANTI depressant my !!!
June 17th, 2009 at 12:24 am
What a great quote …
What a great quote and how good to re-frame the modern medicine cult with a old-time ’savage’ frame of reference. Nice one!
June 17th, 2009 at 12:24 am
curezone d o t o …
curezone d o t o r g
June 17th, 2009 at 12:24 am
“Over-civilization …
“Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.” — GK Chesterton
June 17th, 2009 at 12:24 am
Eat plenty of …
Eat plenty of organic fresh fruit and vegetables, smoke good quality weed don’t touch alcohol, don’t drink or eat anything with aspartame, mg in it and don’t take any of these pills. The illuminati led billion dollar firms are killing our kids with toxic additives and pills.
June 17th, 2009 at 12:24 am
Billboards and …
Billboards and buses display ‘do you want to boost your immune system’! and convince you to buy some that will probably give you cancer! Don’t buy what you see on the adverts,the advertisers are owned by the media,and the media is owned by the government!
June 17th, 2009 at 12:24 am
This video is …
This video is literally retarded haha.
June 17th, 2009 at 12:24 am
Pharmaceuticals and …
Pharmaceuticals and pharmacy come from the Greek word “pharmakeia” which means “sorcery” or “witchcraft”.
The staff with the wings and snakes is a Babylonian symbol called the “caduceus”, it represents commerce (see also Mercury/merchant/Merck).
June 17th, 2009 at 12:24 am
These drug ads are …
These drug ads are encouraging people to use new brand name drugs instead of tried and true older drugs. In reality most people would be better off using an older drug that has been studied over a long period of time.
June 17th, 2009 at 12:24 am
Convenient …
Convenient character in a bottle…
Self-discipline in a bottle.
Child discipline in a bottle.
fast food. Fast solutions to behavioral problems.
The values of the common American today make me want to move out of the country. Wake up,sheeple. Grow up. stop wasting the humanity that nature intended. You behave like illogical leeches.
June 17th, 2009 at 12:24 am
(Response to Agora …
(Response to Agora 788)
June 17th, 2009 at 12:24 am
I agree……they …
I agree……they want to heeeelllp you die!
June 17th, 2009 at 12:24 am
adult add and …
adult add and children with adhd is a pile of .all these made up bullshit ailments by who,big pharma and a bunch of ed up scientists, then they create a toxic pill for it.my nephew is on a drug that causes “brain shivers” after you come off the drug,government allows this to go on because it,s all about the money.
June 17th, 2009 at 12:24 am
Ask your doctor if …
Ask your doctor if he/she takes any of this crap in a pill. I don’t blame the doctors, government, or pharmaceutical companies. I blame the individual! We don’t think for ourselves anymore. We want a quick fix. We tell our kids to “just say no to drugs”. They look at us taking all of this prescription garbage. We are hypocrites. We live in such a stupid generation.
June 17th, 2009 at 12:24 am
Straight up it is …
Straight up it is just money-hungry companies that have gained too much power via political donations.
Step 1 (small step): Remove pharma commercials from television
Step 2 (medium step): Disallow “free lunches” for doctors
Step 3 (big step): Disallow corporate donations to politicians
End result: A Better America