But that’s nothing to brag about.
“Some new drugs sell themselves with impressive safety and efficacy data. For others, well, there are television commercials.”
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/most-prescription-drugs-advertised-on-tv-are-of-low-benefit-study-finds/
Oooh, what’s your score?
https://www.sporcle.com/games/LinkinMarc/drug_or_pokemon
@blaineg 50%, and I know nothing about Pokemon.
@blaineg 50 if I type a P in every spot. A whopping 53 if I actually try. Moral: trying isn’t important.
@blaineg 69% I only knew two drugs and a handful of Pokemon. Used the suffix to guess the rest.
@blaineg 48% ugh.
@blaineg I got 53%, and I almost got tricked out of the diabetes drugs, surprisingly
@blaineg My son was a big fan of Pokemon - at 5 he had the entire roster memorized and could tell you all their characteristics and forms. At first, I thought “what a waste of time”, but then it occurred to me that the same skills could apply to learning something like say, the periodic table or similar.
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Now he has a Masters in Bio-engineering (but as far as I know hasn’t produced any mutant super creatures
@blaineg 90%, and that’s with at least two answers that were wrong purely because I was looking at the wrong line.
@blaineg 53% and surprised I did that well. I’d do better with the non-brand names, I think.
I always figured there to be one of two explanations whenever you see a product excessively advertised:
(1) they make a shit-load of money from it (e.g., cell phone contracts or, here in particular, cable service companies.)
(2) they don’t otherwise sell much of it without flogging it (furniture? anti-diarrhea meds?)
These categories are of course not mutually-exclusive.
I haven’t figured out whether Charmin is in either category though, but I sure see a lot of those commercials with those bears.
[my random two cents]
@phendrick I think Charmin and Pepto advertise a lot so that when you do need that product, which they know you will, their name is at the front of your mind.
@kostia @phendrick And yet I buy the generic pink bismuth and still refer to it as Pepto every time. Lol
Still chuckle that the generic for Cialis is TA-DA- la-fil
@chienfou I thought it was micoxafloppin.
100% I play Pokémon and see lots of commercials because I no longer have a dvr and pay for tv. No more skipping the ads. It’s miserable.
I see at least one or two new drugs advertised on TV every month. Some are followed by solicitation from a law firm @ two or three years later. Fucking FDA.
@detailer The FDA is in a no-win situation. When they would take a long time to do testing before they approved a drug, people complained that they took too long. So they started doing less testing and approved drugs faster, and people complained about the side effects.
70 %
Pitiful
And never played pokeman
My score was around 11%. I have no idea what, if anything, that says about me. I will admit, however, that I know virtually nothing about pokémon.