Advertising Quote by Fereydoon Batmanghelidj

The pharmaceutical industry likes to depict itself as a research-based industry, as the source of innovative drugs. Nothing could be further from the truth.…

— Marcia Angell

“It is clear from the evidence presented in this book that the pharmaceutical industry does a biased job of disseminating evidence - to be…

— Ben Goldacre

Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims…

— Frances Parkinson Keyes

Over the past two decades the pharmaceutical industry has moved very far from its original high purpose of discovering and producing useful new drugs.…

— Marcia Angell

Modern medicine is not scientific, it is full of prejudice, illogic and susceptible to advertising. Doctors are not taught to reason, they are programmed…

— Abram Hoffer

It seems paradoxical that, as medical scientists make huge advances in discovering the mechanisms of common diseases, fewer and fewer innovative drugs are reaching…

— Mark Walport

Now, what tends to happen is that the stories get hyped. And the medicines are not quite as revolutionary and as dramatic as they…

— Mort Kondracke

“Dink, my boy, I'll be a millionaire in ten years. You know what I'm figuring out all this time? I'm going at this scientifically.…

— Owen Johnson

The reason why the medical community is reluctant to talk about it is because there's such a huge business in pharmaceuticals.

— Jenny McCarthy

If anyone doubts the influence of drug company ads on patients and physicians - consider all those wasted billions of dollars for a pill…

— Robert Bazell

Today I want to dispel this myth, because it is absolutely not true .[ that ARV's work ] The pharmaceutical industry and those who…

— Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

Fundamental discoveries can and should be made in industry or academies, but to carry that knowledge forward and to develop a new drug to…

— John Vane