The advertising industry wants a word with everyone, because that's what advertisers exist to do. Getting people to pay attention to what people are willing to

The advertising industry wants a word with everyone, because that's what advertisers exist to do. Getting people to pay attention to what people are willing to pay them to signal boost. Whether or not that's better off for the person on the receiving end is often entirely orthogonal to the entire arrangement. See: The Tobacco Industry The Dairy Industry pre-FDA The Sugar Industry The Media Industry Some corners of the Supplement industry Also see: Lobbying and Psychological anchoring You, in fact, picked the absolute group of people to prove the virtue of taking someone at their word. Go look for the old Thalidomide adverts, then go read the rest of the history of it. Point being: always consider the source, and incentives. There is always an angle.