As part of his campaign to censor pharmaceutical companies, Professor Les Toop (http://www.nzma.org.nz/journal/116-1180/557/)1 submits as ‘evidence’ a bar graph showing that his gang of supporters is larger than that of Barrie Saunders. Does he really believe that a show of numerical strength constitutes proof of anything, even if followed by the Latin abbreviation QED?

A ban on direct-to-consumer advertising is another step toward a complete takeover of the medical and advertising industries by the State. The medical academics pushing this attack on free expression are funded by that very same State – and who, after all, would bite the hand that feeds?