Barney & Clyde by Gene Weingarten; Dan Weingarten & David Clark for October 21, 2022

That kind of “honesty” is not necessarily a good insurance policy.

A side effect of so many side effects is that the package insert will be so big, no one will want to read it.

This is when they include those papers with four point type on them and a bunch of noise words in bold so you have no chance of actually reading the content.

Don’tcha just love the TV ads for prescription pharmaceuticals (which seem to be the only advertisers on nightly national network news programs these days), that are advertising a product that you can’t even go out and buy without seeing a doctor first? About three-quarters of each ad consists of warnings about side effects.

[Soft-focus video of attractive, scantily-clad woman dancing through a meadow filled with flowers and songbirds]: “Hate your yellowed toenails? Ask your doctor about Xerziitin. May cause hair loss, headaches, giant tumors, uncontrollable tremors, tennis elbow, liver failure, some rare brain disease, death, PMS in men. and a temporary darkening of the stool. Take only as directed.”

“Honesty is always the best policy.”

Now, that is a total lie… ☺

Put all the side effects on a website behind a QR code, but blur the QR image a little.

Dwayne and the guy in the middle, separated at birth?

Says Satan himself….

and one day he’ll think about maybe adopting that policy…

I don’t remember which drug commercial ended the list of side effects with “If you die, be sure to let us know”