As a hyperactive and gibbering youth, it was once suggested by a teacher that I might benefit from being treated for ADD. Upon hearing this advice, my father — sage and saturnine — said this: “We had kids with ADD back in the 50’s. The way the teacher treated them was by walking to the back of the class, opening the sufferer’s desk, inserting the kid’s cranium into it and them slamming it over and over and over again until the child was subdued. You do that a few times to a ten year old’s noggin, he quickly learns to pay attention, psychological imperatives be damned.”
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Exciting News from the World of Spam
By 4.6.06
Move over Flinstone’s, there’s a new chewable in town and it ain’t for kids.
How Healthy is Advertising Drugs to Consumers?
By 3.28.06
- “Only two industrialized countries, the United States and New Zealand, allow direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) of prescription medicines.”
TGN1412 Trial Like “Russian Roulette”
By 3.17.06
Do you see the man to the right? The one who looks like the evilest German scientist to ever stumble in blood-smeared scrubs out of a Nazi laboratory? Gaze carefully upon the ominous shadowing falling upon his cadaverous features, the inhuman leer. Yes, readers, you are looking upon the horrible visage of none other than Dr. Thomas Hanke, Chief Scientific Officer of TeGenero, whose drug TGN1412 had six men in trials tearing at their skin and screaming.
Drug Trial Goes Horribly Wrong
By 3.16.06
Two men are in critical condition and four are seriously ill after partaking in a clinical drug trial.
Ambien Users Report Primitive Unconscious Night Gourgings
By 3.14.06
As if America weren’t globular enough already, now you can get fat off sleeping pills.
Stanford Studies Show Getting Ripped-Off is Healthy
By 2.10.06
Companies charge us more out of the kindness of their hearts, new Stanford Graduate School of Business (SGSB) study shows.
In each of three different studies, participants were given energy drinks that supposedly make consumers feel more alert and energetic. Some participants paid full price for the drinks; others were offered them at discounted prices. The participants were then asked to solve a series of word puzzles. In all three studies, the people who paid discounted prices consistently solved fewer puzzles than the people who paid full price for the drinks.
Panexa: The Right Choice, The Safe Choice
By 12.28.05
Gelf Magazine has an interview with Carrie McLaren of Stay Free!, a Brooklyn-based media outlet that “explores the politics and perversions of mass media and American (consumer) culture.” Which is to say, hippies gnawing on at the trunk of the freedom tree.
