Green Anole Lizard wallpaper. Green Anoles are U.S. natives. Sometimes they’re casually referred to as Chameleons, but even though they do change color from green to shades of brown Anoles are an entirely different species. Not visible in this picture is the dewlap, a flap of skin under the jaw area that it displays as a sign of warning that you’re invading its territory and also as part of its courtship ritual.
Drug industry spends nearly twice as much on marketing than on research and development
In their analysis of data from two market research companies, IMS and CAM, Marc-André Gagnon and Joel Lexchin (York University, Toronto, Canada) found that US drug companies spent US$57.5 billion on promotional activities in 2004, the latest year for which figures were available.
In comparison, the National Science Foundation reported that in 2004 the amount of industrial pharmaceutical research and development (including public funds for industrial research and development) was US$31.5 billion in the United States.
There’s nothing inherently wrong with advertising – hey we’ve got a good product you should consider buying. The problem is that drug companies try to promote a public image that they’re all about research to help make people’s lives better. Let suppose that drug companies spent about 32 billion on advertising, the same amount they spent on research. That would leave about 25 billion to, like you know actually spend on helping people or more research and orphan drugs. I don’t know why we generally save the adjectives immature and brat for children when the supposed adults that run multi-billion dollar companies act far worse.
Minng Industry Revenge On MTR Lawsuit Victors
The mining industry is having a temper tantrum because the Kroger grocery chain is allowing an environmental group to participate in a gift-card program as a fundraising measure. The Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition (OVEC) has a good track record pulverizing mountaintop removal (MTR) mining in court. After the MTR rape has killed and injured people, destroyed communities and culture, clear-cut biodiversity hotspot forests, decapitated ancient mountain ranges, and suffocated streams and ecosystems, the mining industry is upset that Kroger is allowing the public to support environmental programs. Greed knows no bounds as now the mining industry wants to prevent OVEC from reaping 5% donations from a $20 gift card.
So the mining industry is using economic and political strong arm tactics to force Kroger and its customer to either support the big coal’s flagrant contempt for environmental laws and local citizens. In the short mining company executives will still be able to run around in their Hummers, but long term this kind of behavior will come back to haunt them. I guess the thinking is that they’ll just leave the environmental devastation for their grandchildren to clean up.
