Posted by pseudoname on October 23, 2005, at 13:50:00 [reposted on October 23, 2005, at 23:14:30 | original URL]
In reply to Are we all under the Big Pharma spell?, posted by mbluett on October 23, 2005, at 8:39:33
> All we all enjoying our BRAVE NEW WORLD?
Not yet, and that won't be the title. LOL.
Big Pharma officially recently tried to get a novel titled "The Spivak Conspiracy" written & published that would scare Americans away from buying generic Canadian imports. PhRMA (the drug industry lobbying group) hired writers to make a novel about Bosnian terrorists contaminating Canadian drugs that make thousands of Americans sick. PhRMA executives figured such a book would be more effective public relations than all the boring op-eds and position statements it currently uses to oppose cheap imports.
The editor on the book (which may yet see print as "The Karasik Conspiracy") was -- and I am not making this up -- JAYSON BLAIR.
Stories at:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/356296p-303697c.htmlhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/19/AR2005101902119_pf.html
(This post *should*, perhaps, be redirected to Books...)
poster:pseudoname
thread:567657
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/social/20051021/msgs/571226.html