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Biotech / Medical : VVUS: VIVUS INC. (NASDAQ)

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To: Zebra 365 who wrote (2322)11/10/1997 3:47:00 PM
From: Vol   of 23519
 
What a biased article! Newsweek's editors will be able to go on a 4 week extravagant vacation to Tahiti with their families with all the dough Pfizer will lay on them for printing this propaganda.

If you read that article with the eyes of a non-medical lay-person, what do you come away with? You remember two things:

1) Some poor impotent elderly man who had prostate cancer can now get it up because of the wonder-drug, Viagra. "I feel like I am 30 years old!" Oh yea, that useless drug MUSE "didn't work."

2) Some hapless 30 year-old is permanently impotent and was lucky to have survived after using a medieval torture therapy, otherwise known as MUSE.

These long-winded, anecdotal stories will have the greatest impact on the lay-public reading this article. Even if the rest of the article presented fair, scientific, and statistically significant information about ED therapy (It didn't), it would have been lost on most people who will mostly remember these two scenarios.

A great piece of Viagra propaganda. Pfizer definately got their money's worth.

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