~Using Google News Advanced Search today (and going back 30 days) there are about 5,200 stories with the phrase "human growth hormone" (without the words) -anna -smith
As of this hour there are more than 900 stories with the words anna smith "human growth hormone
The same Advanced News Search as above, anna smith "human growth hormone" except filtering for stories between feb 24 and... yesterday results in 8 links.
I expected an increase in the number of articles mentioning human growth hormones, since the autopsy results of Anna Nichole Smith's death were broadcasted live on two or three cable tv stations this morning.
I don't know how many more mentions of HGH "as used by Anna Nicole Smith!" will be written, or when journalists and publicists will grow tired of the connection. I'll try to remember to look in on these links in a day or two.
I imagine hormone manufacturers will get their marketing people on it toot suite. And will keep their people on it for as long as they can.
Perhaps beloved actresses and actors (who knew?) will announce press conferences and 'come out of the closet' with testimonials about their use and maybe misuse(?) of these substances?
Within a month vitamin manufacturers will be advertising various herbal concoctions as "natural human growth hormones"?
By the end of summer women's magazines will be reporting on the wide-spread abuse of these drugs by teenage girls?
By winter the NY Times will report that teenage boys are abusing growth hormones too?
Within two years a number of class action lawsuits against various vitamin manufacturers will be announced by lawyers representing women whose kidneys, livers and other internal organs were irreparably damage from the above over the counter "hormone" supplements?
Kids will be growing even larger, and faster?
About this time the possession or distribution of HGHs without a prescription will become a felony punishable by a mandatory jail sentence?
Within ten years China will have a basketball league rivaling the NBA?
Soon thereafter the first all-white front five in more than fifty years will take the Celtics to the NBA Championship? (They'll then lose in the WBA Championship Tournament to the Chinese?)
etc.
Posted by Stubbornson at March 26, 2007 08:35 AM