drug ads and mind control

DRUG ADS AND MIND CONTROL

DECEMBER 2, 2004. Way back there when massive deregulation came in for drug companies, it became possible to run TV ads for meds. Major ads. And the pounding began. It has increased to a thunderous roar over the years.

There was one catch. You had to list adverse effects.

So, over time, the drug companies began to see the path to daylight. Develop a sequence.

1. Pump up the drug as a way to solve a problem.

2. Show images of people solving their problem---even if that meant some goofball Leave It to Beaver grin.

3. List the adverse effects.

4. Resolve the question THAT posed by saying, "Ask your doctor if X is right for you." Easy. The doc knows if you'll skate with no side effects or develop a shrunken liver.

5. Finish with the "woman running through a field of daisies" saying, "I have my life back, thanks to X."

In other words, leave the suckers with the positive image.

You could die, so ask your doc if X is right for you, and by the way, here is a woman who feels marvelous on X.

It's a little nickel drama. The threat of side effects becomes the moment of crisis that must be present in any good play. The audience looks for it. "Oh good, here comes the part about my kidneys shutting down. Wooo." But then, the messiah. The doc will know if your kidneys will survive X. Ah. The release of anxiety. And finally, the daisy field. All is well. There was a threat, but it worked out.

However, there was a flaw.

If, over time, the amount of exposure of the drug companies (and the FDA and the fraudulent drug research) reached a critical mass, the public could begin to view that little moment of crisis in the drug ads in a different way.

The listing of adverse effects could, instead, trigger the scandal of drugs.

The public could begin to detach from the seamless ad-drama.

Which is what is happening now. I know that because I talk to alt. health practitioners, and they tell me more and more of their patients are saying they want to get off all those meds they're taking.

The patients are aware that scandals are explodng right and left. They may not understand the full fabric of the scandals, but they're reacting away from the drugs.

The drug companies are well aware of news cycles. Bad press comes and goes. They want to ride this one out and find better days.

Meanwhile, on the deadly germ front, organizations like WHO are pressing home the absurd doom warnings of global pandemics, using the tiny death rates from phony diseases like SARS and West Nile and bird flu to produce enough fear to drive people back to their doctors' offices.

And the Chiron disaster will probably make people line up for next year's flu shots in June and July.

It's a war of info and propaganda.

Do your part.

JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com Tweet