SEPTEMBER 2009
- Doctors on the take: how to read the fine print in medical research articles
- What if everybody starting telling the truth about medical ghostwriting?
- Medical ghostwriting: if you’re not alarmed, you’re not paying attention
- How to use the media to push your drugs
- Partners in slime: why you should be alarmed about medical ghostwriting
- Horse thieving, train robbing, and medical ghostwriting
- Even our kitties can’t believe everything they read
- What drug reps wrote on their BlackBerries
- How to translate Big Pharma PR-Speak into English
- Stock market tip: how to profit from swine flu
- Medical journal editor resorts to sleuthing to catch ghostwriters
- 50-100% of medical journal articles on drugs paid for by Big Pharma?
- “Sleazy example” of drug company reminder ad on Twitter
- Ghostwriting and “Guest Authorship” – twins separated at birth?
- GlaxoSmithKline hid Paxil’s birth defect warnings for decades
- Is Big Pharma onboard the Titanic?
- Merck paying off 3,100 families affected by Vioxx deaths
- Big Pharma = Big Salaries
OCTOBER 2009
- Bingo Fun with Pharmaceutical Ads: What can they teach us about marketing
- Pfizer paid $4,000 per day in speaking fees to helicopter-flying doc
- Dannon slammed with $35 million settlement over Acitivia false advertising
- All bark, no bite: new Big Pharma ethics guidelines lack teeth
- Is your surgeon able to understand simple instructions?
- Drug rep confidential
- How hockey goons are the same as “puzzled” medical journal editors
- Columbia drug study scandal
- PANEXA: ask your doctor if you need it
- Bayer sued for false prostate cancer prevention claims in multi-vitamins
- A short history of medicine
- Drug marketing by the numbers
- Dr. Harriet Hall explains Tooth Fairy Science
- A mere $2.3. billion later…
- The Lucky Stockbroker Syndrome and other ways to skew research
NOVEMBER 2009
- Radiation + asbestos = good. Abortion + vaccines = bad.
- Copper magnetic bracelets are ineffective against pain
- Whistleblower: “I was fired for fighting hospital’s link with Medtronic”
- How a new drug gets approved
- Former NEJM Editor: “No longer possible to believe most medical research published.”
- Nice work if you can get it: same speech, week in, week out – at $1,500 a pop
- Warning: clinical trials funded by drug companies may be less truthful than they appear
- New ‘Desire Drug’ claims that sex really IS all in her head
- Doctor’s ‘kiss & tell’ tale: My one-year career as a Drug Rep
- Marketing that kills babies: Why I support the Nestlé boycott
- The Drug Pushers
- Two nurses fired for reporting doctor’s inappropriate actions
- There’s a pill for that!
- Is this a Starbucks or not?
DECEMBER 2009
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AUGUST 2010
- Why the poor pay virtually no attention to those ‘quit smoking’ campaigns
- News flash: food is better than supplements for staying healthy
SEPTEMBER 2010
- What has happened to you, Dr. Oz?
- Four marketing tricks that Ikea uses to seduce us
- When doctors go retail: is it okay to sell products?
- The haunting of medical journals: how ghostwriting sold hormone replacement therapy
- Provocative TV ad targets McDonald’s high-fat fare
- How deductive reasoning can lead us to stupid conclusions
- Please, no more fridge magnets! Why companies spend all that money on useless corporate swag
- Cardiologists accused of implanting coronary stents that were not needed
OCTOBER 2010
- Seth Godin: “This is broken!”
- Seattle report claims: “Admitting medical errors is not always the best policy”
- Sugar is good for you – and for the people who make sugar!
- Why doctors get sued
- How a New York bakery sold $23.5 million worth of cupcakes last year
- JUST SAY NO to antipsychotic drugs for toddlers
- Big Pharma’s biggest “phlops”
- Is your doctor a “thought leader”?
NOVEMBER 2010
- T-Mobile and the flash mob marketing phenomenon
- Nobel prize winner forced to retract three flawed peer-reviewed journal articles
- ‘Extreme exam anxiety’ - disability or excuse?
- Bad doctors earning good money from Big Pharma
- Whistleblowing is dangerous to your health
- In Thailand, exercise provides relief for all pain
- Novartis stable of big name athletes lures docs to drug dinners
DECEMBER 2010
- Anti-aging question for Suzanne Somers: “Why is pig thyroid good for us, but horse urine bad?
- Lipitor and nine other blockbuster drugs that are “falling off the patent cliff” this year
- Paying illegal kickbacks to doctors: just the cost of doing business for Big Pharma?
- Putting a positive spin on negative medical research results
- The Five A’s of Empty Arguments
- Post hoc ergo properter hoc – Latin for “Don’t drink the water!”
- Mayo Clinic warning: “Beware of alternative health care fraud”
- Why the Pope needs media training
- The Top 10 posts from The Ethical Nag for 2010
JANUARY 2011
- Six not-so-simple steps toward protecting us from dangerous drugs
- First greenwashing, then pinkwashing – now SUGARWASHING!
- British surgeon threatened with lawsuit for daring to question ‘Boob Job’ cream
- Researchers: “Osteoarthritis treated with drugs/surgery instead of recommended guidelines”
- Make that a super-giant-jumbo popcorn for 50 cents more!
- The life cycle of the ‘urban tumbleweed’
- “Integrity in Science” – who’s paying the piper?
- What we can learn about medicine by watching Grey’s Anatomy
FEBRUARY 2011
- Willful blindness – why we seem to prefer ignorance
- Rape victims are not victims – at least in the state of Georgia
- How doctors are selling weight loss surgery to teens
- Why there’s no such thing as “clinically proven”
- Can quantum mechanics really explain the “Law of Attraction”?
- How to survive piano practice – the ‘Tiger Mother’ way
MARCH 2011
- Stent-happy docs on notice in Maryland health care fraud debate
- Dr. Dude – world’s first PhD in snowboarding
- A day in the life of a medical ghostwriter
- Amazing (and strange) examples of placebo miracle effects
- Why are gynecologists still prescribing HRT despite known risks?
- What do Justin Bieber and birth control pills have in common?
- Are you being over-diagnosed?
- Coffee reduces your stroke risk – or does it?
APRIL 2011
- Why narcissists love Facebook
- Same old duet: drug companies and psychiatry
- Dr. Ben Goldacre’s rapid-fire story of the ‘nocebo effect’
- Clinical practice guidelines vs. routine screening mammography
- Do-it-yourself psychotherapy for suffering hockey playoff fans
- Overpriced best-sellers: how does Apple do it?
- How Volvo is reclaiming its safety reputation?
- Experts: why so wrong, so often?
MAY 2011
- Can statin drugs really save your life?
- How to turn a condition into a disease by “selling sickness”
- Five questions that will change the way you look at health care
- Top 10 biggest selling prescription drugs
- Is ugliness a disease?
- Why Big Pharma wants your e-mail address
- Four myths about marketing to 50+ women
JUNE 2011
- “Falling In Love in Six Acts” – the best ad campaign ever
- “You can lead a cardiologist to water, but, apparently, you cannot make him drink”
- 10 food/bacteria combinations that can make you very, very sick
- What marketers should know about pitching to Baby Boomers
- Viagra goes generic – and then what?
- I rest my case: Facebook’s appeal to the truly stupid
- The Vancouver Riots: a backlash against the backlash
- Pyramid vs. plate: will this new image make Americans less fat?
- Remedial training for neurosurgeons: “Don’t bill for procedures you didn’t do!”
JULY 2010
- How the “shrink’s bible” can make you sick
- Four reasons we don’t miss Oprah
- Why Big Pharma now outsources its clinical research overseas
- How to deal drugs: Big Pharma’s dirty little tricks
- How did this heart drug get approved in the first place?
- What are you naming your baby?
- Johnson & Johnson recalls Extra-Stinky Tylenol
- Chicago billboards, 1942
AUGUST 2011
- Death By Prescription: a father takes on his daughter’s killer
- Why is my government paying for drugs that France won’t touch?
- Making driving beautiful: those new Volkswagen ad campaigns
- Why some people should avoid social media completely
- Here’s how you’re spending your time each day
- Thank you, Jack . . .
- Why isn’t California disciplining its dangerous doctors?
- Google forfeits $500 for illegal Canadian pharmacy ads
- How to tell if ads are true – courtesy of Wikipedia
- News flash: smartphone users obsessively check their devices
SEPTEMBER 2011
- Celebrating the second anniversary of The Ethical Nag!
- London’s new post-riot 2012 Olympics logo
- Social media: a fad or a revolution?
- When the little darlings won’t eat fresh fruit . . .
- “I can’t afford to be SKINNY!”
- Heart society gets half of its funding from stent industry
- What makes good advertising work?
OCTOBER 2011
- Social media marketing madness
- Plastic shopping bags are good for you – and for industry!
- Why we eat the breakfast we do
- New heart medication study was “too flawed for publication”, says former NEJM editor
- Take statin drugs “when diet and exercise are not enough”
- Dr. Ben Goldacre: Battling bad science
- Why doctors who pretend to write journal articles should be punished
- When patients demand treatments that won’t work
NOVEMBER 2011
- Why you should put that damned phone away
- Things your doctor may not know
- Is that chain e-mail a hoax? (Yes, probably!)
- Paying celebrities to shill your drugs
- Universal cholesterol screening for little kids?
- Celebrate ‘Buy Nothing Day’ on Friday, November 25th
- Vintage ads you’ll never see again
- How to sell your snowblower in New Brunswick
DECEMBER 2011
- Does taking 22 pills a day make you any healthier?
- Be suspicious of research presented at scientific conferences
- A buyers’ guide to retail shopping tricks
- Foreign intrigue: when drug companies bribe doctors
- When doctors say YES when they mean NO
- If December 25th is your birthday
- Women in film: the morphing movie star face
- Year in review: Top 10 Ethical Nag posts in 2011
JANUARY 2012
- Painkiller overdose deaths top those from heroin and cocaine
- Short vs long articles online: which are better?
- Why I’d never make it as a Japanese mother
- Should we stop calling it prostate “cancer”?
- “Fotoshop by Adobé” – all you need to look like a supermodel
- “Never Liked It Anyway”: online garage sale meets self-help aisle
- Miss Representation: how women are portrayed in the media
- Waiter’s phony $10 tip includes a religious lesson
FEBRUARY 3
- Yogurt: what else could a woman possibly need?
- Is medicine “just plumbing with more expensive tools?”
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