Tuesday, June 20, 2006

drug dealers suck

a coworker sent out a mass emailing to a group of "ladies" asking them to support merck's newest warm-and-fuzzy campaign pushing awareness of (read: purchase of) their new, better-late-than-never HPV/cervical cancer vaccine. by clicking on a link, you can get a FREE BRACELET KIT! and for each one ordered, the great and powerful merck will donate ONE WHOLE DOLLAR to cancer research -- up to the $100,000 they have promised. ooh now that is a lot of money.

here is the link she circulated:
http://www.maketheconnection.org/

as advertised, it takes you "right to the merck website."

we could not control ourselves. there was clearly education to be delivered. merck's profits are off the charts. $100,000 is toilet paper to them. and this damn vaccine was an awful long time coming. clearly, it's more profitable to treat cancers than to prevent them, dontcha think?

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