Comments for The Ethical Nag http://ethicalnag.org Marketing Ethics for the Easily Swayed Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:02:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on “Integrity in Science” – who’s paying the piper? by International Guy http://ethicalnag.org/2011/01/27/integrity-in-science-report/comment-page-1/#comment-27198 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:02:11 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=3188#comment-27198 [...] of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Couldn’t sound better, could it? But he has also received a great deal of money from industry sources—like artificial infant formula manufacturers Mead Johnson and Nestle Ltd. His study on optimal [...]

]]> Comment on Is medicine “just plumbing with more expensive tools?” by cave76 http://ethicalnag.org/2012/02/07/andre-picard-healthcare-reform/comment-page-1/#comment-27181 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:21:20 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=8293#comment-27181 Thanks for the mantras!

]]> Comment on Is medicine “just plumbing with more expensive tools?” by Carolyn Thomas http://ethicalnag.org/2012/02/07/andre-picard-healthcare-reform/comment-page-1/#comment-27174 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:43:37 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=8293#comment-27174 Hello Dr. Joe – I suspect Picard would agree with you especially in the day to day provision of health care in a medical practice. I took #3 to mean more systemic issues (like funding unnecessary screening tests, for example).
cheers,
C.

]]> Comment on Is medicine “just plumbing with more expensive tools?” by Dr Joe Kosterich http://ethicalnag.org/2012/02/07/andre-picard-healthcare-reform/comment-page-1/#comment-27173 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:30:26 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=8293#comment-27173 Interesting piece. I agree with all except number 3. Much of what matters (quality of life issues) can not be counted and much of what can be measured and counted does not count or matters very little (eg whether cholesterol is up point something).

]]> Comment on Big Pharma’s “Pay for Delay” tactics keep generic drugs off the market by Donna http://ethicalnag.org/2010/04/11/pay-for-delay/comment-page-1/#comment-27150 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:09:06 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=1163#comment-27150 This is absolutely crazy!! Poor consumer!! I always thought that generics weren’t as good as name brand. Do you want a pair of Levis? or a pair of Walmart brand jeans?

I really hate to see what these Big Pharma companies do to all the pain medications that chronic pain patients need to live some kind of a quality of life. I’m sure they really care about the patient. Yea right. They don’t care. They only want the BIG money that insurance companies provide. There’s too many pills out nowadays. Many will make you sicker than you were before taking them. A pill for this, a pill for what that one causes. On and on… disgusting isn’t it? Then you see a commercial ad saying how great a med is, then all the side effects including death right behind that. Look folks.. We can’t all live forever. So stop trying to keep us alive. The world is over populated now and we are on the road to running out of food. Give us a break…

]]> Comment on Miss Representation: how women are portrayed in the media by Carolyn Thomas http://ethicalnag.org/2012/01/26/miss-representation-women-in-the-media/comment-page-1/#comment-27141 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:17:01 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=8438#comment-27141 That WAS nice – thanks for letting us know!

]]> Comment on Why you should not buy Girl Guide Cookies this year by Grist http://ethicalnag.org/2010/03/10/girl-guide-cookies/comment-page-1/#comment-27136 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:53:51 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=1835#comment-27136 [...] have eliminated palm oil from their cookies, and are offering to help the Girl Scouts USA and Girl Guides Canada do the same. The English bakers also found, unsurprisingly, that replacing unhealthy palm oil with [...]

]]> Comment on Miss Representation: how women are portrayed in the media by cave76 http://ethicalnag.org/2012/01/26/miss-representation-women-in-the-media/comment-page-1/#comment-27123 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:19:29 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=8438#comment-27123 I just received a notice from the President of Virgil Films informing me that the DVD of Miss Representation will be closed captioned when it releases in April on NetFlix etc.

That was nice of him, I thought.

]]> Comment on Does the medical profession need to wean itself from its “pervasive dependence” on Big Pharma money? by Natural Society http://ethicalnag.org/2010/04/07/medical-profession-pervasive-dependence/comment-page-1/#comment-27104 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:40:37 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=801#comment-27104 [...] and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the bible of mental health clinicians, have ties to the drug industry. Likewise, a 2009 study showed that 18 out of 20 of the shrinks who wrote the American Psychiatric [...]

]]> Comment on “Integrity in Science” – who’s paying the piper? by Natural Society http://ethicalnag.org/2011/01/27/integrity-in-science-report/comment-page-1/#comment-27078 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:43:09 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=3188#comment-27078 [...] of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Couldn’t sound better, could it? But he has also received a great deal of money from industry sources—like artificial infant formula manufacturers Mead Johnson and Nestle Ltd. His study on optimal [...]

]]> Comment on Yogurt: what else could a woman possibly need? by Carolyn Thomas http://ethicalnag.org/2012/02/03/yogurt-what-else-could-a-woman-possibly-need/comment-page-1/#comment-27076 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:39:11 +0000 http://carolynthomas.wordpress.com/?p=8510#comment-27076 Oh, “younger than springtime” – that would be nice! Should we just slather some of that past-due yogurt directly on our faces? Thank you, Kate! :-)

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