Re:Collection: More Doctors Smoke Camels
by verdverm on Thursday January 09, 2025 @01:56PM
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I'd focus on politicians and corporations who lie through their teeth first, not journalists. I'd focus on the blatant and provably wrong statements, like where a politician says they did this thing to bring jobs to their constituents when in fact they voted against the bill
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Re:Collection: More Doctors Smoke Camels
by mrguyorama on Thursday January 09, 2025 @03:09PM
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Oh absolutely, I've long railed on about how absurdly weak and pitiful "truth in advertising" laws are in the US, but suggesting that a homeopathic medicine should not be able to call itself a "remedy" or "medicine" or anything like that drives people absolutely insane in the US. How dare you ~take away~ slightly change the label on my sugar pills!
Consider that, if you pay someone to say something as a "testimonial", you can say basically whatever you want and face no legal consequences. It shouldn't be the job of the average consumer to take corps to court for selling shit based on lies, yet it is.