Fake Pharmaceuticals

Mind Hacks just had a great little roundup of fake pharmaceutical products; the inevitable satirical backlash of a medical industry like ours.

Despondex is a drug for the chronically chipper. The video is fantastic:

Most of us know someone who could use a dose of Havidol.

Panexa mocks the proliferation of drugs (and side effects), readily dispensed.

And one of the first ones I remember seeing years ago:

And although it was not in the article, one of my all time favorite medical mockeries remains Steve Martin’s “Side Effects,” published in the New Yorker in 1998 (a must-read if you haven’t seen it)

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