Trump to Big Pharma: You’re all in trouble—but I won’t say how

The Trump administration boasts letters that Food and Drug Administration has just sent to 100 pharmaceutical companies, accuse them deceptive advertising with direct consumption to consumers. Do you want to know what announcements are misleading, how they are misleading, which companies have received letters and which drugs are in question? LOL, you cannot, because if the FDA and the White House proudly agitate these letters, they literally contain any detail.

THE mail Order pharmaceutical companies to stop and abstain from their deceptive announcements and to “delete any non -compliant advertising and put all promotional communications in accordance”. It has also been a certain time that social networks are afraid and vague threats on the way in which “in the future, the FDA intends to take aggressive measures and guarantee compliance with the law”.

What letters do not include is an explanation of what constitutes “non -compliant advertising”, generally or specifically. There is no reference to laws or regulations, and letters are not adapted to specific companies and specific advertisements. Pharmaceutical companies are apparently supposed to guess what they do about and repair it, or face still unknown consequences.

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Although you do not in any case do, in any case, giving Big Pharma’s doubt, Trump’s attack has nothing to do with real real concerns about misleading advertising. Rather, it is a question of forcing pharmaceutical companies to treat the theories of the conspiracy of the Secretary of Health and Social Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as if they were science.

In the FDA press release on advertisements, Kennedy complained that “pharmaceutical advertisements have hung this country on prescription drugs” and that “only radical transparency will break the over -mediation cycle that stimulates the epidemic of chronic American disease”.

Hmm. Apparently, “radical transparency” does not imply saying pharmaceutical companies or the rest of the country what are the problems.

Kennedy, who is really dislocated in this kind of thing, said he wants to prohibit Completely pharmaceutical advertising. There is certainly a case to argue that direct advertising to consumers is problematic, but these letters do not even claim this affair.

Partly, it is because these chest letters are not like real regulations that companies are forced to follow. During the Biden administration, we had things like that 84 pages rule On the “presentation of quantitative efficiency and risk information in promotional labeling and direct promotional advertisements (DTC)”. It included references to the governing laws, long definitions, multiple examples of compliant and non -compliant advertising, disclosure requirements for social media influencers, etc. Or here is a guide For pharmaceutical companies on “presentation of quantitative efficiency and risk information in promotional labeling and promotional advertisements”. »»

The problem here is that Kennedy does not believe in science. He is an ideologist determined to blame each childhood illness, each chronic state of health, on the wickedness of the great Pharma, and it is absolutely furious that no real scientist agrees. “Make Our Children Healthy” report by Kennedy chick From complaint to fluorine, vaccines and prescription drugs, but without any study or reference to the governing laws. This is just a laundry list of Kennedy’s favorite plots.

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Science, under Kennedy, consists of demanding These main medical publications retract a study he does not like, even when this study was carried out outside the United States and has not received funding from the United States government. It’s branch of comics, not real regulations.

What these letters without fact are really about the pharmaceutical companies in which they are for the same treatment As media university and societies: vague and not supported affirmations of reprehensible acts which can only be resolved by giving the administration millions of dollars. And it certainly does not look like science.