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There is no moral way for a pharma company to increase demand for its product.

• nostromo 8y ago
  That's silly. If I have a cure for X. And if you have X but don't know about my cure -- perhaps you don't even know a cure is possible -- it's a net good for me to tell you about my cure for X. And how do I tell you if there are millions of yous I'm trying to reach? Via marketing.
  • cwkoss 8y ago
    That's an even sillier steel-man. Consumers are not good at making informed pharmaceutical choices on their own, and the idea that magazine advertisements showing smiling old people does anything to inform them is laughable. Also, pharma doesn't market cures, they prefer to market long-term treatments that are recurring funding streams.