Healthy Skepticism Library item: 19842

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Publication type: Magazine

Hungerford C
Insulting ad
Australian Doctor 2004 Oct 2925

Full text:

EDITOR Maybe it was just a bad week, or maybe it was seeing a woman who had lost two children in a house fire, but tonight the advertisement for Pravachol, featuring Roy Orbison, annoyed me even more than it usually does.

This tragic man lost his two little children to a house fire, and, if I remember correctly, his wife to a road accident. It is an insult to him, and to us as a profession, that we allow advertising to trawl such depths.

Dr Carol Hungerford
Bathurst, NSW