How Corrupted Drug Companies Deceive and Manipulate Your Doctor
by Dr. Mercola | May 18 2010 | Mecola.com
Dr. Beatrice Golomb, Associate Professor of Medicine at University of California, San Diego, masterfully exposes the corruption that has metastasized like a tumor throughout the pharmaceutical and medical industries, in the video above.
If you have any doubt about drug companies being riddled with conflicts of interest, those doubts will be shattered after seeing the evidence she presents.
The corruption has become so prolific that it has literally debased medical science.
In the above linked Chicago Breaking News article, Dr. Paul Offit, an infectious disease specialist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, is quoted as saying:
“Science is not a democracy where people’s votes decide what is right. Look at the data, look at science and make a decision based on science that has been published.”
What he is really advocating is for you to blindly believe in “facts” that may have been produced in the midst of MASSIVE conflicts of interest.
Before you assume the science in medical journals is credible, let’s take a look at what is going on behind the scenes of editing and publishing in medical science.
See full article for more on:
Bias #1: Unwanted Results are Not Published
Bias #2: Bad Results are Submitted as Good
Bias #3: A Favorable Study is Submitted Multiple Times
Bias #4: Follow-Up Reviews Done by Biased Experts
Bias #5: Ghostwriting
Bias #6: Journal Bias
Bias #7: Drug Companies Masquerading as Educators
Hell Hath No Fury (for whistleblowers)
“Too Big to Nail”
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May 20, 2010 at 10:27 am
Posted in Corporate State, Economics, Education, Govt folly, Health, Lobbying, Media, Perception Management, Whistleblowers and other heroes
Tagged with Bias, Big Pharma, Conflicts of interest, Corruption, False advertising, Lobbyists, Science
