An interesting blog by Wired magazine reporter Brandon Keim suggests that the recent decision of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to put the American people on “alert” for an anthrax attack has more to do with protecting the Bush administration’s cozy relationship with manufacturers of anthrax vaccines than protecting the nation from a bio-terrorist attack. Project BioShield [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Risk’
September 27, 2008
Purple Pills and Puffery
This post is about promotionalism and the pharmaceutical industry. Some of the ideas come from a paper I wrote a couple of years ago (This Ad May be Bad for Your Health) published as a chapter in my book Communication in Question. I was compelled to revisit some of the ideas that informed the paper [...]
