Oddbean new post about login | logout Great rip nostr:nprofile1qqsywt6ypu57lxtwj2scdwxnyrl3sry9typcstje65x7rw9a2e5nq8sprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctvqydhwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnzd96xxmmfdecxzunt9e3k7mgpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mq9hxafw! To add to what y'all said about pharmaceutical companies running ads directly to consumers, a big part of why they do that is to control the platforms they run ads on. When they can become a big enough part of the media company's revenue, they can threaten to pull ads if that company propitiates a message they don't like.
Opened up a few of the magazines in the waiting room at a medical office last week. These magazines were not medical-themed, they were publications such as Time and People but the majority of the large, color, multi page ads were for pharmaceutical products.