Dr. Jen Gunter
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And I had a deal with whatever company pharma company X to sell Jen's birth control pills.
That would be even different.
Right.
With my story.
Or if I was funneling people to, you know, buy my genetic test to tell which birth control pill would be best for you.
And so that's why I think it's really important for people to to understand the motivation behind the influencer.
So I think it's very, very hard for people to have those kinds of conflicts of interest and for them not to have an impact on what they say, right?
When there's 20, 30, 40, 100, $200,000 more than that involved behind the messaging, do you think that's going to change what you're going to say?
Is that going to change how often you make that content?
I'm sure it would for me.
I'm only human.
I mean, that's why pharmaceutical companies want doctors.
In fact, they want a doctor who's like, oh, I'm really evidence-based and I'm going to give you just like, they want that.
They don't want the person who's like, yeah, it takes 50,000 from every company.
So I think it's really complicated.
I think there's people who feel that they can do that.
And that's up to them.
I think that
One huge issue, which I think is unfair, is that we collect data on what doctors get from pharmaceutical companies, but we don't collect data on what they get from supplement companies, right?
Or from ads or other types of things.