Ex-Drug Sales Rep Tells All

One hundred monkeys at typewriters alert!

Even ABCNews, the IMHO network of the nutritional homicidal ringleader Oprah and her doggies Katz (cute - dog/cat, get it?) and Ozvorkian, the patently dangerous to your health The View and the Big Pharma-pandering World News (Tonight), can provide something worthwhile, on occasion.

"To sell their drugs, pharmaceutical companies hire former cheerleaders and ex-models to wine and dine doctors, exaggerate the drug's benefits and underplay their side-effects, a former sales rep told a Congressional committee this morning.

Shahram Ahari, who spent two years selling Prozac and Zypraxa for Eli Lily, told a Senate Aging Committee chaired by Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wisc., that his job involved "rewarding physicians with gifts and attention for their allegiance to your product and company despite what may be ethically appropriate."

Ahari claims that drug companies like hiring former cheerleaders and ex-models, as well as former athletes and members of the military, many of whom have no background in science."

Think diet drugs.

Think malpractice.

Think action.