| ISMagazine.com | Crime and Justice |
May, 1999 |
Updating Collection of Newspaper Editorial Cartoons
about Microsoft, Bill Gates and the Justice Department's Anti-trust Actions Goes On-line
A new web site features political cartoons about Microsoft from top newspaper cartoonists around the world.
The site, "Microsoft, Bill Gates and the Justice Department Anti-trust Case by All the Top Editorial Cartoonists" (http://www.cagle.com/microsoft) is updated daily with the newest Microsoft cartoons from more than fifty award winning cartoonists including Pulitzer Prize winners Jim Borgman, Mike Peters, Jeff MacNelly, Mike Luckovich and Signe Wilkinson. The cartoons depict Bill Gates as "Gateszilla," Darth Vader, and an octopus, among other things.
"We will post new Microsoft cartoons daily, as they appear in the newspapers," said Daryl Cagle, a Hawaiian editorial cartoonist who put together the Microsoft site as part of a massive web site called "The Professional Cartoonists Index" (http://www.cagle.com). All the cartoons are presented with the permission of the cartoonists.
"We started off with a site devoted to the White House Sex Scandal (http://www.cagle.com/scandal). The scandal site has been wildly popular; it now has close to six hundred cartoons and often gets more than 100,000 visitors per day." said Cagle, "It looks like the cartoonists will be drawing Bill Gates and Ken Starr forever."
New York, NY, April 22, 1998 —Public Health advocates at the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) today warned consumers to beware of schemes offering to sell herbal ‘medicines’ over the Internet.
"One fraudulent medicine, Viagro, is being marketed over the Internet in attempt to cash in on the new and wildly popular Viagra impotence pill recently approved by the FDA and licensed to Pfizer," Said Jeff Stier, an attorney and Associate Director of ACSH.
"Consumers today must be careful not to be taken in by herbal medicine scams. They should visit their medical doctor and not rely on rumors when making medical decisions. A simple search for webpages with "Viagra" in the URL would bring you to
//www.multiworld.com/viagra/index.html, where you can receive a $99 ‘consultation’ that will entitle you to this counterfeit medicine.
"This Viagro scam is just one of the more interesting trees in alternative healthcare's Internet jungle, where even cancer ‘cures’ are available—without a prescription and without having to answer the mental-health and sexual-history questions that those who would buy Viagro must answer," said Jack Raso, ACSH's Director of Publications and the author of three books on alternative medicine.
The American Council on Science and Health is a consortium of over 250 leading scientists and physicians.