Guest Post by Alex Berenson
If only Pfizer’s scientists were half (or one-tenth) as good as its marketers
(Second of two parts; read part one, including Pfizer’s history of lawbreaking, here)
On Sunday, Pfizer – the drugmaker most associated with the mRNA Covid jabs – took a $14 million shot (so to speak) at burnishing its image.
It worked about as well as the Covid vaccines have.
Halfway through the Super Bowl, the company dropped a minute-long ad linking itself with history’s greatest scientists. The ad felt like nothing so much as a corporate version of Dr. Anthony S. Fauci’s infamous “I represent science” declaration in 2021.
Set to Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now, the ad was amusing, but largely panned. The New York Times wrote Pfizer “invokes a long history of scientists, including Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein, to celebrate its 175-year existence. Visually inventive, but there’s no vaccine against overreach.”
