So, here's the theory:
1. Pfizer, makers of Viagra, once ran some advertisements referencing New Years Eve:
"What are you doing New Year's Eve?," said the advertisement, which appeared in national newspapers, showing a middle-aged man with greying hair.
2. Parties happen on New Years Eve.
3. Therefore, Pfizer is advertising Viagra as a "party drug".
4. Therefore, because Pfizer is advertising Viagra as a "party drug", people are taking Viagra not to cure clinical erectile disfunction, but to offset the temporary erectile disfunction that occurs as a side-effect of ecstacy, amphetamine and crystal meth.
5. Therefore, Viagra causes people to take ecstasy, amphetamine, and crystal meth.
6. Sometimes when people take ecstasy, amphetamine, and crystal meth, they get AIDS.
7. Therefore, Viagra causes AIDS.
8. Therefore, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation is suing Pfizer "to stop advertising [viagra] 'in the reckless manner it has been doing' and require the company to undertake a public information campaign about the alleged risks of Viagra", because apparently Viagra advertisements cause AIDS and all.Are you following this so far?
Because I'm
dead fucking lost.
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then
A=C
If A=B, which is similar to C, which is related (slightly) to D, which is loosely based on E -
then
A=E
Right?
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Not so much "causes to take" as "goes great with". The other ingredient to that recipe is unprotected gay sex.
That's probably where the AIDS part comes in.
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Where do the Jews come in on this? I'll settle for Satan worshipping power-brokers as well.
They need a drug to stimulate blood flow between their damn ears.
I've also heard Viagra causes global warming and the Iraq war.
And if the method of instilling that fear of liability also provides ample fuel to the "WTF litigation reform needed" camp, well so much the better for heath professionals I guess.
I really think this is the wrong way to go about that, though.
Viagra weekends were all the rage at my conservative Christian mountain area high school.
Just wait until bremelanotide hits the market.
Seriously.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Eh.
You should probably keep in mind that the women there were so uninteresting that I didn't obtain a genuine interest in the opposite sex until after I graduated; and I had to import from Australia.
Viagra weekends?
Because that's the only way to get it up in Hillbilliville.
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The more I think about it, the more this makes sense.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Unfortunately, I'm inclined to think that he is on to something here re: the AIDS Healthcare Foundation's mindset. The viagra advertising is particularly egregious as an example of behavior unbecoming a drug company-- arguably reasonably, considering the special nature of what Viagra is. So it's probably either what Ain't No Sunshine suggests, or else the AIDS Healthcare Foundation is thinking "well, SOMEBODY needs to pay to clean up the public health consequences of recreational Viagra use. Hey, let's try to make it be Pfizer!" But that doesn't make this situation much less bizarre.
Viagra is a drug that allows people to have sex. People like to have sex on New Year's Eve. I don't see the content of this particular ad as any more offensive than any other DTC pharma campaign.
If there were a drug that treated anorexia, and they marketed it with an ad that said, "What are you doing this Thanksgiving?" I wouldn't blame the ad campaign for overeating. I'd find it in poor taste, but only in so much as a I find DTC pharma advertising overall in poor taste.
Edit: Part of the issue here is that erectile dysfunction drugs are the ugly stepchild of the pharma industry. ED is still not completely accepted as a real medical condition, except when it's a symptom of some cardiovascular or urological disorder of identifiable organic etiology. ED in and of itself is not taken terribly seriously, so there isn't a clear line, not even a hazy grey blur where a line should be, between medical use of Viagra and recreational use.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Now would be a good time for that smiley that slowly gets bigger.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
*shrug*
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An alien that travel billions of miles to hunt Ahnold make about as much sense as this argument.
I never asked for this!
Pfizer does do AIDS research, they make drugs to combat it (which have recieved their own share of critism too), so you're saying Pfizer should settle out of court and give itself some money to apologise?
Unless this is all a cunning scheme to create a bigger market for their AIDS drugs...
Yes. As with any drug on the market Viagra has been linked to a metric ton of side effects. Drug use with no real reason is a bit silly.
According to Wikipedia (not exactly a reliable medical source, but I'm lazy this morning):
Amongst sildenafil's serious adverse effects are: priapism, severe hypotension, myocardial infarction, ventricular arrhythmias, sudden death, stroke and increased intraocular pressure
The impression I get is that all of these are possible even without heart trouble. Of course, based on the commercials, ED drugs in general have another, deeply troubling side effect; they cause old people to walk on the beach in the sunset, then lay down in seperate bathtubs on the sand and hold hands.
Won't someone please think of the children?
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The function of advertising is to make people want something, but prescription drugs are only made available if a person needs them. What they want has jack-all to do with it.
Given that UK doctors are inundated with people insisting "I have three of the five symptoms I read about on the internet, therefore I have [insert rare medical condition here]," I can only imagine that American patients do the same thing, with the addendum "So I need [absurdly expensive brand name drug]."
Why the hell are drugs made by companies, period.
I'm pretty sure that that would be the intended effect and not a side effect of "recreational sildenafil use".
Not saying I'd do it myself, of course.
Not where high schoolers need viagra. Or maybe its the teachers who use it to get their molest on.
Work in a 9/11 conspiracy and you'll have entropykid topped.
We make babies faster than teenagers consume alcohol. All is well.
Well, not really, given that priapism=unnaturally long-lasting boner=gangrene on your ween.
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Uncontrollable hard on (Which you haven't had before Nixon was Pres) + Meth (Crazy Thinking) + a dirty, dirty $20 whore + unprotected sex = Aids and Herpes. Which means more money in the pockets of the drug companies, becuase you want to keep your hard-on, treat your Aids, and get those damn herpes to dissapear.
Makes sense really.
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