copied from Deb A Good Thing
A Good Thing
Bristol Myers Squibb will donate one dollar (up to a max of $100,000) for every person who goes to their Web site and lights a candle to fight AIDS.
At this point, the counter is just over 73,900 ... so we need many more candles lit before World AIDS Day (on Dec.1).
Please go to Light to Unite to light a candle ... and help spread the light.
https://www.lighttounite.org/
7 comments:
thanks for sharing
Yep I saw that.
Sugar
Will do.
Angela
I can’t help but be frustrated when I read about yet another pharmaceutical company donating to “the cause” -- in this case to an AIDS organization. There has been so much written about how self-serving some pharmaceutical companies are, but people just don’t seem to “get it.”
For instance, did you know that the studies that are done on drugs are very often paid for by the pharmaceutical companies that developed the drugs? AND, when pharmaceutical companies pay for the "research," the “findings” most often “prove” that the drugs are effective.
It is such a big problem. But if you will visit my website, http://www.honestmedicine.typepad.com, you will find many articles attesting to the unhealthy financial ties between pharmaceutical companies and the physicians who “study” their drugs; and between the pharmaceutical companies and the organizations who are supposed to be advocating for patients. (Please go to the left side of my site, where you will find lots of these articles, under “CANCER” and “Pharmaceutical Companies.”
And for a really shocking exposé of how the “Journal of the American Medical Association” (JAMA) published articles about studies whose physician/authors failed to disclose their financial ties to relevant pharmaceutical companies, please see my 3-part article, “The JAMA Controversy,” at http://301url.com/jama-all .
I wish I knew what the answer was, but I don’t. I just know that the more the public knows, the wiser they will become!
And by the way, do you know how LITTLE $100,000 is to a company like this? It's a drop in the bucket -- and look at the great PR they get!
Thanks.
Julia Schopick
Http://www.honestmedicine.typepad.com
You're previous commenter is right. One of my friends is a Pharmaceutical Rep. He goes out and buys Doc's gifts...NICE gifts....if they agree to use his drug. And it's all on an expense account. He takes all the Doc's to baseball games. Has the VIP room, catered food and booze, gift baskets. He'll spend $10,000 on ONE baseball night for these guys. It makes me sick.
I'll still go over and do this though....but your previous commenter is right. $100K is nothing to them.
Pam
Just lit one! I'll email my students with it Fri!
It may not be a lot to this company but every dollar matters. No, I don't like the big pharmaceutical companies and the games they play to manipulate the medical community.
But, it's what we have so at least spread the light and let some money be spent for research.
Deb
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