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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Aug 25

    Are long lists of side effects backfiring? FDA wants to know whether drug ads ‘overwarn’ consumers https://www.statnews.com/2018/08/24/fda-study-drug-ads-side-effects/ … via @statnews

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      1. Don Dunkers‏ @ddwanderer Aug 26
        Replying to @sapinker @statnews

        As the US is one of onlya few countries that allow prescription drug advertising, maybe the better approach would be to stop the warnings and the ads and let dr.s do their jobs?

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      2. Hillary Melchiors PhD, MPH, LCCE, CD(DONA)‏ @HillaryMelch Aug 25
        Replying to @sapinker @statnews

        Easy fix: stop directly advertising to consumers!

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      2. R. Scott Clark‏ @RScottClark Aug 25
        Replying to @sapinker @statnews

        They work for me. When the announcer says, "may cause death" I make a mental note to self: "Never, ever take that medication."

        4 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      3. The_Ali_Kat‏ @The_Ali_Kat Aug 25
        Replying to @RScottClark @sapinker @statnews

        Yeah... There's plenty of drugs that I think 'if I had the problem that drug is trying to treat... I'd just live with it."

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      1. Rick Johnson‏ @est_rick Aug 25
        Replying to @sapinker @statnews

        No

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      1. Lea Nael‏ @LeaNaelAuthor Aug 25
        Replying to @sapinker @statnews

        you may die from taking this drug; you WILL die if you don't take it. but since everyone dies anyways, we will all end up dying trying not to die.

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      2. Icenian‏ @icenianV7 Aug 25
        Replying to @sapinker @statnews

        I can remember before foods carried allergy warnings, and sufferers had no idea if they could eat an item. Then warnings appeared, which was great; you knew what you could eat! Now warnings have proliferated, cover everything, and sufferers have no idea if they can eat an item.

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      3. Icenian‏ @icenianV7 Aug 25
        Replying to @icenianV7 @sapinker @statnews

        If you're warned about everything, you're warned about nothing.

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      1. Lilith‏ @LilithLiberated Aug 25
        Replying to @sapinker @statnews

        YES!! At some point the mind it just says, “fuck it”. Same thing with cigarettes. In fact at one point you can be pushed so far with warnings you want to do the opposite thing because fuck them, I am not a child, stop treating me like one.

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      1. Normal Human‏ @Normal_Human333 Aug 25
        Replying to @sapinker @statnews

        It should not be legal to advertise drugs on television anyway. Doctors should not be merely conduits to purchasing some drug you saw on TV.

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      1. Varga‏ @TravisVarga Aug 25
        Replying to @sapinker @statnews

        How about you come out on the side of reason on this issue? That forcing individuals to conduct their business according to some expert opinion is anti-thinking.

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      1. FlorbFnarb‏ @FlorbFnarb Aug 25
        Replying to @sapinker @statnews

        I could see why they might backfire. If your list is super-long and includes both side-effects that are reasonably likely and side effects that are a million to one, the unlikely ones make people take the whole list seriously. "Their lawyers just make them include that."

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      1. libertas integritas‏ @moshuptrail Aug 25
        Replying to @sapinker @statnews

        Not only do they overwarn, but they are designed to! Drug makers want them to be unreadable and carry so much detail that the reader tosses them aside in frustration.

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      1. AliceinHellSiteLand  🌹‏ @AliceChe35 Aug 25
        Replying to @sapinker @statnews

        Or you could just be like every other industrialized nation and not let these companies advertise prescription medication to lay civilians

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