Do those in-your-face TV ads from lawyers about prescription drug side effects frighten you?
A Congressional committee is holding a hearing about this question on Friday amid a growing debate that such ads are nothing more than inappropriate scare tactics designed to unnerve consumers and encourage them to file lawsuits.
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Lolol… Notice we don’t have hearings in Pro-Pharma DC about how misleading the Pharma companies’ DTC ads are? People SHOULD be scared of the dangerous and mostly ineffective junk that Big Pharma calls “medicine.” And the FDA SHOULD be protecting the public from the dangers and the lies. But in the Dysfunctional States of America, Up is Down and Wrong is Right. So naturally, we must attack those who try to protect the consumer.