According to the estimate of a prominent advertising firm, above 90 per cent, of the earning capacity of the prominent nostrums is represented by their advertising. And all this advertising is based on the well-proven theory of the public's pitiable ignorance and gullibility in the vitally important matter of health.
Interpretation
This quote critiques the heavy reliance on advertising in healthcare, reflecting on public naivety regarding health products.
Samuel Hopkins Adams emphasizes the significant role that advertising plays in the profitability of health-related products, suggesting that consumers are often misled by their lack of knowledge and naivety. He points out that a large portion of these products' earning potential relies not on their actual effectiveness but rather on the persuasive and often misleading nature of their marketing strategies.
In practice
In a discussion on ethics in advertising during a marketing conference.
With a few honorable exceptions the press of the United States is at the beck and call of the patent medicines. Not only do the newspapers modify news possibly affecting these interests, but they sometimes become their agents.
It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.
According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians.
I have yet to meet a single person from our culture, no matter what his or her educational background, IQ, and specific training, who had powerful transpersonal experiences and continues to subscribe to the materialistic monism of Western science.
Please pray with me for everyone in Sri Lanka and the Philippines as I begin my trip.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
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