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R.F.Kennedy Jr. - Attorney, Author, Thimerosal:
The pharmaceutical industry was able to use its influence over FDA to get FDA to waive the rule that once prohibited pharmaceutical companies from doing direct consumer advertising of their products. That loophole has given The pharmaceutical industry extraordinary control over the American media. The pharmaceutical companies typically spend about $9 billion a year on media buys
The pharmaceutical industry was able to use its influence over FDA to get FDA to waive the rule that once prohibited pharmaceutical companies from doing direct consumer advertising of their products. That loophole has given The pharmaceutical industry extraordinary control over the American media. The pharmaceutical companies typically spend about $9 billion a year on media buys
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The pharmaceutical industry
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was able to use its influence over FDA
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to get FDA to waive the rule
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that once prohibited pharmaceutical companies
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from doing direct to consumer advertising of their products
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That loophole's given the pharmaceutical industry
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extraordinary control over the American media
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The pharmaceutical companies typically spend
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around 9 billion a year on media buys
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A dramatic forensic examination of the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act and its consequences.
