The episode explores the bizarre, poetic, and highly regulated world of pharmaceutical brand naming, revealing how names like Viagra and Lunesta are born from a mix of science, art, and FDA constraints. What sounds like sci-fi gibberish is actually the result of intense creative rigor, li
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