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Doug Bremner is a psychiatrist and co-author of Justice in the Age of Judgment: From Amanda Knox to Kyle Rittenhouse and the Battle for Due Process in the Digital Age.

Where do they come up with all those goofy names for prescription drugs, anyway?

Doug Bremner, MD
Meds
February 22, 2024

An excerpt from Pills, Shills, and the Psychiatry Wars: Musings from the Drug Safety & Healthcare News Blog.

I was spreading pine straw around the bushes in my yard in Atlanta, Georgia, when I started thinking about … you guessed it! The goofy names that drug companies come up with for their prescription drugs.

Folks in the blue states are often interested in the customs of us red state folks since …

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Where do they come up with all those goofy names for prescription drugs, anyway?

The power of first impressions: How false information can stick

Anne Bremner, JD & Doug Bremner, MD
Conditions
March 10, 2023

An excerpt from Justice in the Age of Judgment: From Amanda Knox to Kyle Rittenhouse and the Battle for Due Process in the Digital Age.

In the early 1970s, a group of researchers at Stanford University placed advertisements in a newspaper offering two dollars to people who would participate in an …

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