Re: WARNING: Industry is Blogging These NewsGroups to Impact the Public Discourse on Matters of Public Health

D.C. Sessions wrote:
The problem with the whole "secret agent" notion is that businesses
are in ... business. Paying someone to write to five people is not
a money-making plan unless those five are *major* buyers.

First, we obviously have more than 5 readers and/or posters.
Second, your view of what's good business is not necessarily that of
the big drug companies. Third. here's an alternate (pun intended)
scenario:

Executives at the top of a major drug company have decided they
want absolutely NO talk about cures and treatments other than those
they have laid out for folks through the 'usual' outlets. To
accomplish that, since they have huge profits available to them, they
decided to combat ANY mention in a public place of alternate
treatments that may upset their apple cart. The reason being to
completely obfuscate the truth so that the false view will be taken as
the only one available. As well, that policy can irritate people that
might frequent a forum, by putting forward too much fighting back and
forth so as to cause people who would normally be interested in
alternatives to go elsewhere to avoid the unpleasantness.

There are plenty of small minded, little people who would love
to play 'secret agent' to feel like they were somebody, while only a
few of their drug company handlers were in the know. For their ego
boost, they would probably do the work for a pittance just to be able
to 'be on the inside'. Because of this interest, the business
considerations become even more viable, when the drug companies can
get what they want for less.

Chris



The above scenario among others, is definitely a sensible
possibility. Consider that for some companies the cost is outweighed
by their need to combat alternate images.




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