Review of Pink Ribbons, Inc. (2011) by Alexander Z — 21 Sep 2014

The documentary raises great questions on corporate greed, how we frame support for cancer patients, and somewhat delves into carcinogenic factors, but the agenda and broad generalizations are a real turnoff. What particularly annoyed me was the complete disregard of the actual progress that has been made on breast cancer. This documentary would have you believe that we're scientifically still at square one compared to a hundred years ago and that we know nothing about breast cancer. The overarching theme is that the pink ribbon campaign has done nothing, and all that money that has actually been put into studies has amounted to squat. That is blatantly false. Is a lot of that money wasted? Yes. Do companies enter the breast cancer business and pocket most of the money? Yes. However, to use this message to invalidate actual scientific research is completely dishonest and fraudulent, turning this into an emotionally charged misinformation fest.

Bottom line: If they want to show the problems of breast cancer discourse in today's society, they can't spread lies as well.