Talk:Havidol

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Articles for deletion This article was nominated for deletion on January 5, 2008. The result of the discussion was Keep.

[edit] Category?

I suggest "Uncategorisable" which would be a new (and self-defeating?) category. The only other fake drug campaign I'm aware of was about 50 years ago for an anti-depressant called Damitol, which now seems to exist only as a punk rock group. Snezzy 12:28, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

  • Category:Art_exhibitions seems to apply, so I tagged it as such, but feel free to change or add other related categories. "Uncategorisable" is uninformative and shouldn't be used. "Hoaxes" doesn't seem to apply. Maybe "Political Satire". It's hard to tell since there is so little information in the article. - Aagtbdfoua 01:07, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

I don't like citations to new papers but have found this story(?) reported by Reuters. [1]--Aspro 21:35, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Medical satire

Whilst I can't spare the time right now, I have been wondering if there is enough material to create a new article dedicated to Medical satire? The existing article on Satire is getting rather large. The art of medicine and the art of satire often seem close bedfellows (no pun intended) so there must be plenty of scope for a separate article.
http://www.helsinki.fi/collegium/english/staff/Kivisto/kivisto_abstract.htm
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/309/6970/1714

Have added sources for a few resent examples below and am sure there must be many more.
PharmAmorin:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/46032

The drugs you need:
http://cu.convio.net/site/PageServer?pagename=Rx_song_download

The town of Allopath:
http://mercola.fileburst.com/Flash/Allopath/newsubscribe.swf

Qfever:
http://www.qfever.com/issues/20051005/index.html
--Aspro 16:01, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Clean up claims

I changed the claim that "many" people had been fooled by this campaign to "some", since that matches the Reuters source. In any case "many people" and "some people" are both weasel words, and I'll probably remove the claim entirely unless we're able to flesh it out a little more.

I also removed the statsaholic.com link, since I see no evidence that it's a reliable source (the Google ads slapped across the top don't fill me with confidence). In any case the statsaholic seems to report 10,000 monthly uniques (in the intial month), down to about 1,000 monthly uniques in December, which didn't match the claim (that I have now removed) of 1,000 hits per day in December 2007. - Aagtbdfoua (talk) 02:22, 9 January 2008 (UTC)