Agents Quote by Samuel Hopkins Adams

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

The media is not about responding to the wishes of people. All you have to do in the United States is turn on the…

— Henry Giroux

Imagine what it would be like if you didn't know that the evening news was funded primarily by 'Big Pharma.' You would actually believe…

— Douglas Rushkoff

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“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

Remember,the press is a business: Newspapers and magazines are in business to make money - sometimes at the expense of accuracy, fairness and even…

— Michael Jackson

Private companies mostly manufacture medications that resemble what we've already got. They get it patented and, with a hefty dose of marketing, a legion…

— Rutger Bregman

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

And thirdly, the FDA occasionally does some genuine public good with whatever energies it has left over after serving the vested political and commercial…

— G. Edward Griffin

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

“The average American is unaware of this system—the patenting of drugs from nature, the renewal of patents based on insignificant changes, the aggressive marketing…

— Robert B. Reich

I am interested in the press and what they do.

— Cornelia Parker