Drug to cure distrust of big pharma!

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Drug to cure distrust of big pharma!

Postby Louise Pembroke » Fri 10 Mar 2006 12:09 pm

I saw this article and believed it! Probably because I wouldn't put it past them to actually try this,
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/46032
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Postby GarethB » Fri 10 Mar 2006 12:45 pm

Will have to look when I get home, the filth filter has popped up :shock:
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Postby Andrew MacLean » Fri 10 Mar 2006 2:03 pm

Louise

My computer won't let me visit that page. Should I try to change the settings?

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Postby Louise Pembroke » Fri 10 Mar 2006 2:20 pm

ah pity, don't know what to suggest. I have it copied on a file but don't how to transfer it here. Basically it said that Pfizer had developed a drug to treat peoples distrust of the pharmaceutical industry and the drug was classified as a 'critical thinking inhibitor'!!! As I would put nothing past them this seemed quite credible for me for about 10 minutes. Priceless.
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Postby Andrew MacLean » Fri 10 Mar 2006 3:56 pm

Oh well. Louiose. Maybe pharmaceutical copmpanies have a sense of humour after all.

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Postby GarethB » Fri 10 Mar 2006 4:17 pm

Andrew,

With the run around I have had today, I would disagree at this moment in time. :(
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Postby Andrew MacLean » Fri 10 Mar 2006 4:30 pm

Never mind Gareth

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Maybe it is enough that some people who work in pharmaceutical companies have a sense of humour.

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Postby GarethB » Fri 10 Mar 2006 6:10 pm

Not working this weekend, first full weekend off since weekend before Christmas!
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Postby John Smith » Fri 10 Mar 2006 9:31 pm

Ah yes, "The Onion" - a well known source of fake news. One of the net's first comedy websites.
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Postby Andrew MacLean » Sat 11 Mar 2006 2:50 pm

Is that why my browser did not let me open it. I have 'family protection' installed.

(By the way, Chicago is sometimes called 'the onion'. The city's name is taken from the name given by the Illinois Indians, who were indigenous to that part of the Mid West as the settlers travelled up the great Rivers to colonize the area, to a member of the onion family that grew in great abundance in the wet land around the shore of Lake Michigan.

I understand that the name "chi' ca-goo" literally translates as "smelly onion", and I suspect that it may have been related more closely to the garlic plant.)

I winder whether 'the onion' website may be based in chicago?

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