Terry Prone: Moral outrage won’t halt demand for new weight-loss drug of choice

Moral sniffing at the idea of people using Ozempic or Wegovy as a 'quick weight loss hack' driven by 'culture' is ridiculous
Terry Prone: Moral outrage won’t halt demand for new weight-loss drug of choice

Kim Kardashian reputedly used semaglutide to drop enough poundage to fit comfortably into this dress made famous by Marilyn Monroe.

Remember the heroic research that developed covid-19 vaccines, and the linked story of how major pharmaceutical companies upped their manufacturing capacity in order to churn out millions of doses of the stuff? 

That story’s going to be put in the ha’penny place by
semaglutide
, the type 2 diabetes drug.

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