There are plenty of good reasons to ban the TV advertising of prescription drugs, but coming from the anti-science, anti-medicine Trump administration and the dangerous anti-vaccine crackpot Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the motivation is suspect.

It is aimed to attack the pharmaceutical companies? Or hurt the revenues of the TV networks? Or both? We are more than skeptical that the underlying reason has much to do with the health of Americans and the concerns of their doctors.

The idea itself is a sound one, to get rid of those happy TV ads with people singing and dancing about some medication or another, while listing some side effects, like may cause immediate death. The new rule would require disclosure of all side effects, meaning that pharmaceuticals wo

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