Report: Drug Firms on Lookout for Moore
Monday, December 27, 2004
LOS ANGELES — Some pharmaceutical companies are telling their employees to
look out for the scruffy guy in the baseball cap.
The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday that at least six drug companies have
released internal communications telling employees to be wary of filmmaker
Michael Moore (search).
Moore's targets have included General Motors (search) ("Roger & Me"), the gun
lobby (the Oscar-winning "Bowling for Columbine") and President Bush
("Fahrenheit 9/11").
Moore, normally seen sporting a beard and a ball cap, has now set his sights on
the health care industry, including insurance companies, HMOs, the Food and
Drug Administration (search) and drug companies.
"We ran a story in our online newspaper saying Moore is embarking on a
documentary and if you see a scruffy guy in a baseball cap, you'll know who it
is," said Stephen Lederer, a spokesman for Pfizer Global Research and
Development.
In September and October, Wyeth, AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline, the
second-largest in retail sales, sent out Moore alerts, instructing employees
that questions posed by the media or filmmakers should be handled by corporate
communications.
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27 Dec 2004 07:14:52 PM |
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Subject: Report: Drug Firms on Lookout for Moore
From: (TonyZ2001)
Date: 12/27/04 6:55 AM Pacific Standard Time
Message-id: <20041227095551.10314.00001681@mb-m25.aol.com>
Report: Drug Firms on Lookout for Moore
Monday, December 27, 2004
LOS ANGELES — Some pharmaceutical companies are telling their employees to
look out for the scruffy guy in the baseball cap.
The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday that at least six drug companies
have
released internal communications telling employees to be wary of filmmaker
Michael Moore (search).
Moore's targets have included General Motors (search) ("Roger & Me"), the gun
lobby (the Oscar-winning "Bowling for Columbine") and President Bush
("Fahrenheit 9/11").
Moore, normally seen sporting a beard and a ball cap, has now set his sights
on
the health care industry, including insurance companies, HMOs, the Food and
Drug Administration (search) and drug companies.
"We ran a story in our online newspaper saying Moore is embarking on a
documentary and if you see a scruffy guy in a baseball cap, you'll know who
it
is," said Stephen Lederer, a spokesman for Pfizer Global Research and
Development.
In September and October, Wyeth, AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline, the
second-largest in retail sales, sent out Moore alerts, instructing employees
that questions posed by the media or filmmakers should be handled by
corporate
communications.
Pfizer Global Research and
Development slow baked me for nearly a decade.
They got me with Celebrex. I did 400mg
a day for 7 years and I'm telling it all to Moore. What a wild and moving
documentary that should make.
Tangents are infinite in all of nature in
all universes constantly and at random.
* D OUOSVAVV M *
*PUBLIUS ENIGMA*
Oh Joy!
Tom
The Psychedelic Pope
Patron Saint of the Internet
http://www.apple2.org.za/gswv/me/
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| User: "Woods" |
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27 Dec 2004 09:47:18 AM |
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TonyZ2001 wrote:
Report: Drug Firms on Lookout for Moore
Monday, December 27, 2004
LOS ANGELES — Some pharmaceutical companies are telling their employees to
look out for the scruffy guy in the baseball cap.
The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday that at least six drug companies have
released internal communications telling employees to be wary of filmmaker
Michael Moore (search).
Moore's targets have included General Motors (search) ("Roger & Me"), the gun
lobby (the Oscar-winning "Bowling for Columbine") and President Bush
("Fahrenheit 9/11").
Moore, normally seen sporting a beard and a ball cap, has now set his sights on
the health care industry, including insurance companies, HMOs, the Food and
Drug Administration (search) and drug companies.
Good, it's about time someone exposed the goings on in the health care
industry. I don't know about the other Americans on apn, but I'm pretty
sick and tired of doctors and hospital management getting wooed to
prescribe particular medications. We're paying for those good times in
Florida, folks!
Woods
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27 Dec 2004 10:34:36 AM |
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Woods wrote:
Good, it's about time someone exposed
the goings on in the health care
industry. I don't know about the other
Americans on apn, but I'm pretty sick
and tired of doctors and hospital
management getting wooed to prescribe
particular medications. We're paying for
those good times in Florida, folks!
It's a gazillion dollar industry and they are as low as the common
street dealer.
They don't care about anything except making money!
It seems every time I have a doctor's appointment, a well-dressed drug
company rep slides in ahead of me (no appointment necessary) with their
bag full of *free* goodies and samples. Sometimes more than one company
shows up at the same time.
I suspect this is another reason drugs cost so much!
Oh yeah.....I'm tossing my bottle of Naproxyn in the garbage. They just
came out with evidence that it increases the risk for heart attack or
stroke by 50%. YIKES!!
SuZanne
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| User: "WH" |
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27 Dec 2004 12:08:00 PM |
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Su Zanadu wrote:
Woods wrote:
Good, it's about time someone exposed
the goings on in the health care
industry. I don't know about the other
Americans on apn, but I'm pretty sick
and tired of doctors and hospital
management getting wooed to prescribe
particular medications. We're paying for
those good times in Florida, folks!
It's a gazillion dollar industry and they are as low as the common
street dealer.
They don't care about anything except making money!
It seems every time I have a doctor's appointment, a well-dressed
drug
company rep slides in ahead of me (no appointment necessary) with
their
bag full of *free* goodies and samples. Sometimes more than one
company
shows up at the same time.
I suspect this is another reason drugs cost so much!
Oh yeah.....I'm tossing my bottle of Naproxyn in the garbage. They
just
came out with evidence that it increases the risk for heart attack or
stroke by 50%. YIKES!!
SuZanne
Good thing that someone has the balls to take them on I say. Go for it
Mick!
Just finished his book "dude where's my country" I think that's what
it's called anyway. Good one...great larf at the monkey's expense. I
recommend it to all Americans.
WH
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| User: "Woods" |
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27 Dec 2004 12:38:36 PM |
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WH wrote:
Su Zanadu wrote:
Woods wrote:
Good, it's about time someone exposed
the goings on in the health care
industry. I don't know about the other
Americans on apn, but I'm pretty sick
and tired of doctors and hospital
management getting wooed to prescribe
particular medications. We're paying for
those good times in Florida, folks!
It's a gazillion dollar industry and they are as low as the common
street dealer.
They don't care about anything except making money!
It seems every time I have a doctor's appointment, a well-dressed
drug
company rep slides in ahead of me (no appointment necessary) with
their
bag full of *free* goodies and samples. Sometimes more than one
company
shows up at the same time.
I suspect this is another reason drugs cost so much!
Oh yeah.....I'm tossing my bottle of Naproxyn in the garbage. They
just
came out with evidence that it increases the risk for heart attack or
stroke by 50%. YIKES!!
SuZanne
Good thing that someone has the balls to take them on I say. Go for it
Mick!
Just finished his book "dude where's my country" I think that's what
it's called anyway. Good one...great larf at the monkey's expense. I
recommend it to all Americans.
I bought that for my daughter and son-inlaw for Christmas, and have been
glancing at it. While some of the conclusions reached by Moore are way
overdrawn (IMHO), it certainly does point out just how lax the media is
when it comes to dealing with the Conservative Right. As Moore
says,(among other things involving the Bush/bin Laden connection) if
Clinton had flown all of McVeigh's family out of the country, without
letting the FBI conduct normal investigations with them, after the OK
City bombing, everyone would have been all over it and a stained dress
would have been completely forgotten.
Woods
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