Prescription Propaganda [1]
Submitted by Sheldon Rampton [2] on
"The Center for Medicine in the Public Interest [3], a recently created front group [4] for pharmaceutical interests, has been churning out industry-funded propaganda that demonizes evidence-based medicine, universal health care, the government, and all critics of pharma while attempting to portray industry as a selfless provider of cures and education," write Norman Kelley and Adriane Fugh-Berman. CMPI's Peter J. Pitts [5] has written opinion pieces for publications including the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, which fail to mention that Pitts is a senior vice president at Manning, Selvage and Lee [6] (MS&L), a leading PR firm for the pharmaceutical industry.