Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Adams , Samuel Hopkins (2010-01-10), The Great American Fraud: Articles On the Nostrum Evil and Quacks, in Two Series, Reprinted from Collier'S Weekly, Nabu Press, Retrieved on 2011-08-30
Folksonomies: skepticism medicine Memes
30 AUG 2011
Advertising Works Because People are Ignorant
According to the estimate of a prominent advertising firm, above 90 per cent, of the earning capacity of the prominent nostrums is represented by their advertising. And all this advertising is based on the well-proven theory of the public's pitiable ignorance and gullibility in the vitally important matter of health. 1 
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notes...and, worst of all, their ignorance has to do mostly with their own health.
