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Martha Rosenberg is an award-winning investigative public health reporter who covers the food, drug and gun industries. Her first book, Born With A Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks and Hacks Pimp The Public Health, is distributed by Random House. Rosenberg has appeared on CSPAN and NPR and lectured at medical schools and at the Mid-Manhattan Public Library.
SHARE Sunday, March 10, 2024 The Fonz Is Pimping For Big Pharma
People of a certain age will remember the sitcom Happy Days and its leather jacket-clad mascot, "the Fonz." Aloof and ever-cynical, the Fonz epitomized late 1970's cool. But flash forward to today and the Fonz (who was played by the actor Henry Winkler) is now an uber earnest drug pitchman, pimping for Big Pharma.
SHARE Friday, December 15, 2023 Is Your Audio Crawling with Drug Ads? It's Not Your Imagination!
For advertisers, the move from TV to audio brings "better targeting, personalization, and measurement" No kidding. Listen to audio today and you'll think you have somehow tuned into the "Pharma channel."
SHARE Friday, December 8, 2023 Expensive New Drugs Prices Harm Us All
Drug makers are pricing new drugs at extortion costs and "buying" fast approvals. Congress should do something as Pharma beomes another arm of the government.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 28, 2023 Be Scared Be Really Scared Says Drugmaker Pfizer To Sell Diseases
Not only is Pharma using a child actor to sell its drug, the many doctors with whom I work say RSV almost never occurs in adults--it is a mostly a risk that young children get! According to the CDC, RSV "causes mild, cold-like symptoms [and] Most people recover in a week or two."
(6 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 18, 2023 Psychiatrist Speaks Out Against the "Corrupting Influence of Big Pharma"
If you are sick of hearing about "how we are in a Democracy (your vote counts) based on Capitalism (true competition is good for business)," when we are actually in "a Corpocracy meaning the corporations have more power than you do and they chum up to one another to make sure all of their collective interests are being pursued while pretending to compete," you will like Pimps, Whores, and Chiggers: Musings from the Drug Safety
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, October 30, 2023 Pink Slime is Still in Meat Supply--Unlabeled
In my new book Click I discuss
the opioid scandals
newer drugs with 5 and 6 figure price tags
the move toward, danger and reasons for faster drug approvals
and the return of pink slime in the food supply
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 15, 2023 How Fraud at the Border Hurts the Needy. Interview with Border Reporter Todd Bensman
Almost everyone wants to help downtrodden and poor people seeking a better life. But according to Todd Bensman a Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies and longtime reporter, the public is seriously misled about current immigration at the U.S. southern border. Right after his July testimony at a joint hearing of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement and the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism
SHARE Thursday, August 3, 2023 Don't Fall For This Sleazy and Deceptive Marketing
It's no secret that milk sales have fallen for decades. A wealth of nondairy milks are now available without dairy milk's cholesterol, calories, antibiotics and even pus - and its astounding cruelty to calves, cows and workers. Dairy operations are also such polluters they are called "environmental crack houses."
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, July 24, 2023 Your Dry Cough May Be "ILD" Mongers New Drugmaker Campaign
Do you have shortness of breath or a dry, hacking cough? The drugmaker Boehringer Ingelheim hopes so--that's why it has launched a new "awareness" campaign to sell the disease of interstitial lung disease to people who might think they are fine. (See: "Have Drug; Need Patients!")
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 1, 2023 Surgery Causes Patient Permament, Life-Destroying Pain
What if your primary care physician sent you to a sinus specialist for endoscopic surgery to widen your sinus passages for better drainage? But while you were under sedation the surgeon performed a "septoplasty"--a straightening of the septum"--without your consent which had the effect of permanently cutting off your right nostril's air airflow? This and more happened to Michael Frederick, 35, a middle school science teacher.
(8 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 28, 2023 Why Do Men Do These Things?
Looking at men's "character defects" that make them charming but and frustrating
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 6, 2023 Do Gory Animal Photos Change Your Eating Habits? If You Are Like Most People, Probably Not
No one wants to be called bad for eating what they eat""especially at mealtime and as long as there is more than one channel on peoples' devices, they will tune horrifying animal images out and keep eating what they are eating. Unless, hopefully, just as tasty food is available that is not cruel such as slaughter-free, "lab" meat which also mitigates the environmental toll of factory farms and grazing.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, April 21, 2023 Are You Woke? Then Why Are You Still Eating Meat?
Veganism requires a mindful discipline three times a day as opposed to yelling "racist" or "transphobe" to a micro-agressor. In fact, in the entire history of Woke politics has anyone yelled "speciesist" when someone insouciantly tucks into their Thai Chicken?
SHARE Saturday, April 1, 2023 Menopause Mongering Returns, Big Time
Drug makers are reviving the "disease" of menopause to sell drugs. They are banking, correctly, on the public's shot memory of the 60 year lethal scourge against women known as hormone replacement therapy
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, March 13, 2023 Can Americans Trust the CDC?
Few are aware of the existence of the CDC Foundation, a separate, nonprofit organization, established by Congress in 1992 to seek private-sector donations and public-private partnerships. To those concerned about conflicts of interest, "public-private partnerships," which mix taxpayer funds with industry's, are likely the biggest red flags.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, March 10, 2023 Pfizer Pfeeds Covid-19 Pfears
Before its COVID-19 "good guy" makeover, Pfizer was linked to some of the most notoriously unsafe drugs that have come down the pipeline. It bought Warner-Lambert in 2000 knowing the company's marketing practices were under criminal investigation and its Rezulin had been withdrawn. Then Pfizer bought the hormone maker Wyeth knowing it carried the baggage of the diet drug Fen-Phen's heart valve suits and cance
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, March 3, 2023 How Consumer Drug Ads Gaslight Us
Direct-to-consumer (DTC) drug ads have been accused of giving dual and confusing messages and even being "bipolar." Even as viewers see rainbows, sunsets, puppies and smiling grandparents, the audio cautions that the advertised drug may cause allergic reactions, severe infections, brain bleeds, seizures and more including death. Will the drugs make us better or kill us? Do you have the sound on or off?