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This appears to be a PR piece by the ALS-fighting company, The ALS Association, themselves.
by jimbob45 7y ago
This appears to be a PR piece by the ALS-fighting company, The ALS Association, themselves.
- SEJeff 7y agoAnd if by company you mean registered nonprofit dedicated to fighting ALS, then yes, spot on.
- berdon 7y agoBeing a registered non-profit doesn't really exclude you from making money or being "evil". The majority of hospitals are non-profit, for example. I am in no way saying the ALS Association is evil.
- JamesBarney 7y agoI think it's pretty common to equate making money to making a profit for a corporation, and in that sense they don't make money.
- SEJeff 7y agoBut the context the GP used was to make it "evil" that the ALS non-profit released a post on the Ice Bucket Challenge benefiting ALS, which was sort of bone headed. Well why wouldn't they post that the money was used to help their cause? That's a good thing!
- rolltiide 7y agodoes that really discredit it instead of amplify ongoing efforts? like seriously what other organization on the planet is going to fund or even talk about any particular study, than the organization already incentivized to. what you want to look for is repeatable results that another generic organization can then do, not merely saying "hey look the sugar industry did this study about sugar, follow teh moneyz!"
- jMyles 7y agoI don't understand why you are being downvoted. This is certainly a PR piece and it makes no mention of whether any actual metrics have moved, just that a lot of money was raised.
- chc 7y agoPointing out that a press release on an organization's website is PR by that organization is simply not a useful comment. The only thing that comment added beyond pointing out the obvious was a way of phrasing it that implies that ALSA is somehow nefarious, which could generously be called a middlebrow dismissal.
- jimbob45 7y agoI commented when there were few comments on the article hoping to head off people from thinking it was a substantive article. My comment now seems like I'm trying to discredit them. I'm not. I want to see ALS conquered more than anyone. However, it is very difficult to learn anything new from a PR release and I was hoping to save everyone some time.
- oh_sigh 7y agoIt's literally a press release on the ALS associations website. Did you believe you were making an insightful comment when you hit the submit button?