{"id":58688,"date":"2026-05-18T01:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T05:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=58688"},"modified":"2026-05-17T10:24:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T14:24:48","slug":"qotd-medical-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/05\/18\/qotd-medical-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Medical ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>I don&#8217;t understand commercials for medicine anymore. I mean, I understand what they&#8217;re trying to say when they advertise a medication and list its possible side effects. I just don&#8217;t understand why they bother anymore. Nobody takes these advertisements seriously. The other day, I saw a spot for something called Restless Legs Syndrome. I was <em>stunned<\/em> when it ended without turning into a &#8220;Good news; I just saved 15 percent on my car insurance by switching to Geico&#8221; commercial. That&#8217;s how bad it&#8217;s gotten. It doesn&#8217;t even matter how legitimate the affliction is. It could be cancer at this point. It could be a pill to stop spontaneous human combustion. Wouldn&#8217;t matter. I see these commercials and instinctively shrug them off. I suffer from Grain of Salt Disorder. <\/p>\n<p>Jonathan David Morris, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncc-1776.com\/tle2005\/tle337-20050918-07.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Thoughts On Health&#8221;, <em>Libertarian Enterprise<\/em><\/a>, 2005-09-18.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t understand commercials for medicine anymore. I mean, I understand what they&#8217;re trying to say when they advertise a medication and list its possible side effects. I just don&#8217;t understand why they bother anymore. Nobody takes these advertisements seriously. The other day, I saw a spot for something called Restless Legs Syndrome. I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[66,28,41],"tags":[97,243,101],"class_list":["post-58688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-science","category-media","category-quotations","tag-advertising","tag-medicine","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-fgA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58688"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102534,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58688\/revisions\/102534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}