Re: Canadian doctors coming to the US

From: Orac (orac_at_mac.com)
Date: 08/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 01:27:10 GMT

In article <cgra53$4a0m@odds.stat.purdue.edu>,
 hrubin@odds.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) wrote:

> In article <41309b16$0$18253$79c14f64@nan-newsreader-05.noos.net>,
> Lictor <ghostmlNOSPAM-REMOVE@online.fr> wrote:

[Snip]

> >Yes, but that's my own decision. I'm not forced to buy a car - I actually
> >consciously decided not to. Likewise, I'm not forced to buy any kind of
> >food. Advertisements should plainly don't exist. I mean, they provide no
> >information to help me with taking a decision.
>
> Without advertising, you would not even know of the
> existence of the products. If you are relying on the
> government for information, you are a total fool.

If you are relying on advertising for information, you are even more of
a fool. Advertising exists to sell people something and thus make money
for the person doing the selling. That's its only purpose when it comes
to commercial products. If there weren't laws regulating what
advertisers can claim, they would exaggerate, distort, and even lie as
much as required to entice you to buy their product. (Indeed, they
routinely did so 100 years ago.) Even with the meager controls on what
advertisers can claim that do exist, advertisers routinely make
exaggerated and distorted claims.

Sorry, but as untrustworthy as the government is, in this case, I'd say
it's less foolish to rely on the government for information than it
would be to rely on advertising.

[Snip] 

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