Comments on: How drug companies get the clinical trial results they want

By: Dr. J.

Dr. J. — Sat, 10 Oct 2015 15:51:39 +0000

[…] on September 30, 2012 by Carolyn Thomas […]

By: Dr. Joe Kosterich

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By: Eddie Mitchell

Eddie Mitchell — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 17:26:46 +0000

In reply to Bev RN.

Hi Carolyn

Thanks for allowing us to ‘nick’ some of your work. Keep kicking butt. You have a great blog and we will be sign posting people in your direction in the future. So much of the science that rules and influences our lives is bent, and has been bought and paid for.

Keep up your great work.

Good luck and health to you and yours.

Eddie

By: Bev RN

Bev RN — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 17:44:20 +0000

Mike, I can’t disagree with your argument that this country requires intensive testing and reporting, but when that reporting hides a well known side effect called DEATH, reviewed and also hidden by the drug company’s MDs in the appropriate field, then I think it’s time the drug companies are stopped in their tracks and put in the slammer. They probably won’t die in there. Or we could just have them come in for their daily or whatever is recommended of their own death-prone drug. I would call that a fitting consequence. If they die? Oh well………. (I actually am a person who doesn’t believe in killing anyone who isn’t threatening actively to kill someone else, but this consequence sure comes to mind for someone who behaves in such a reprehensible way!)

By: mike

mike — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 22:05:29 +0000

In reply to Carolyn Thomas. Paint chips and pixel misalignment may not affect your body and mind, but brake failures and backdoors that allow hackers to empty your bank account certainly do. Occasional slight fevers or mild drymouth also do not affect your body to a great extent, but are required to be publicly reported anyway. The bar for acceptable information required by FDA may be low, but the information the FDA requires to be submitted for a new drug is still far higher than that required for anything else we as consumers ever use.

By: Carolyn Thomas

Carolyn Thomas — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 21:45:38 +0000

Thanks for sharing your perspective here, Mike. The issue here, however, is that my car's paint chips or Windows 7 flaws do not affect my body. The fistful of cardiac meds I now take daily do. My concern is that the "good information" about risks and benefits of those meds is likely to be bought and paid for by Big Pharma.