Comments on: 50-100% of medical journal articles paid for by Big Pharma?

By: Carolyn Thomas

Carolyn Thomas — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:35:58 +0000

Thanks Cave for these two links. Especially troubling is this, from the BMJ report:

“In 2007, an independent analysis of the diabetes drug Avandia found that the drug increased heart attacks and cardiovascular deaths.

“Steven Nissen, MD, the lead author of this analysis, said 35 of the 42 studies he looked at were unpublished and were obtained only because a court case required the drug’s maker, GlaxoSmithKline, to turn over the data.

“Had the medical community known about this hazard, Avandia would likely never have become the world’s largest selling diabetes drug,” said Nissen, chairman of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic.”

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By: cave76

cave76 — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:19:18 +0000

Then there’s this, just in:

“BMJ: Discipline Researchers Who Withhold Research Results”

And this:

“Scientists say unreported drug data a health hazard”

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By: Todd E.

Todd E. — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 03:48:53 +0000

“…In 2005, JAMA decided to impose stricter editorial guidelines prohibiting drug companies from the fanciful embroidery of their medical-test results in order to favour their drugs. JAMA then saw a 21% drop in industry-financed research after it began requiring that all data in drug company-sponsored medical trials be independently verified by university researchers….”

And there you have it. It’s all about the money. He who pays the piper calls the tune, and in this case, it is regrettably Big Pharma that pays out of its bottomless pockets.

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By: Helena

Helena — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:24:57 +0000

Quite disgusting – having just one tainted journal article puts all articles in that journal – past and future- in a compromised position.

How can anyone possibly believe that the practice of ghostwitten industry-funded “scientific papers” isn’t utterly pervasive?

Why aren’t government agencies cracking down on this criminal behavior? Why aren’t genuinely independent career researchers screaming bloody murder about their “peers” who participate in this fraud?

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By: Kim W. Tremple

Kim W. Tremple — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:32:31 +0000

Shocking stuff. Thank goodness there are some docs with conscience who are coming forward to demand things change. Nothing will change until people with influence are as outraged as the rest of us.

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By: Kim Ramden

Kim Ramden — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:34:34 +0000

This is kind of frightening. But needs to be told. THANX.

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By: lena

lena — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:59:59 +0000

Thanks for this.

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