tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550428.post2341241170958937775..comments2024-03-27T01:34:23.434-04:00Comments on Pharma Marketing Blog: Marketing Causes Death: the Link Between Black Friday and Black BoxesVladhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04114063498108633047noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550428.post-48201459064905247132008-12-05T15:35:00.000-05:002008-12-05T15:35:00.000-05:00Individuals can be held accountable, but a mob or ...Individuals can be held accountable, but a mob or crowd cannot. And yes, you can't safeguard everything. But can Wal-Mart's marketing staff(and that of other retailers,)alone or in consort with marketing firms, be considered completely blameless, having essentially incited mobs to riot by advertising "door-busting sales" and enticing them out in the middle of the night? And this after days if not weeks of saturation advertising via print and televion. It may be a grey area from a legal standpoint, but not so in terms of ethics. And the issue with pharmaceutical companies is not that individual patients are unwilling to take certain risks; but rather that many pharmaceutical companies have marketed drugs in spite of risks known to them from their own research, without disclosure, until forced by independent statistics several years down the road to admit that in fact, they knew these risks were there all along.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15415924433009632500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550428.post-41024528673379981382008-12-05T07:13:00.000-05:002008-12-05T07:13:00.000-05:00An interesting attempt to parallel the two situati...An interesting attempt to parallel the two situations but when will we hold people accountable to their own actions? Marketing did not kill the Walmart employee people acting like animals to get an LCD TV did. You cannot safeguard eveything and neither can any regulatory agency. The doctor AND the patient must know the risks with ANY drug and act accordingly. There is risk with anything you do including taking medicine, the problem is people want a magic pill that cures their problems and no side effects.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com