In one of the final scenes in “Trading Places,” Mortimer Duke, played by Don Ameche, has a temper tantrum on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange after being bankrupted in a scheme concocted by Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy) and Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Akroyd.)

If you believed everything you read on social media, you’d think HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had issued a sweeping proclamation Monday morning to ban prescription drug advertising on TV. That was the chatter on social media platform X from a prominent retail trader account.