Nat’l Academy Sciences Supports human toxic pesticide experiments Thu, 19 Feb 2004 The integrity of science and the preservation of civilized medicine are being systematically undermined. The New York Times reported that “more than 60 influential scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates, issued a statement asserting that the Bush administration had…
Doctors Without Borders: Why you can’t trust medical journals anymore Tue, 13 Apr 2004 Related link: Hear an interview with Shannon Brownlee on NPR at: http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1874563 Doctors Without Borders in the Washington Monthly (excerpt below), looks at the intricate web of collaborating players in medicine who are financially tied one…
NIH Panel Recommendations Fail to Resolve Conflicts of Interest Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 Following the disclosure by the Los Angeles Times (December 2003) that “NIH officials now allow more than 94% of the agency’s top-paid employees to keep their consulting income confidential,” Congress demanded full disclosure and an overhaul…
Harvard Study: Multivitamins Effective in Thwarting AIDS progress Thu, 1 Jul 2004 A report in the New England Journal of Medicine may be the first serious challenge to the current accepted treatment of people infected with the HIV-virus. Those expensive and toxic cocktails of AIDS drugs may not be the…
FDA May Require Longer Studies Before Approving Psych Drugs – WSJ Tue, 18 Oct 2005 The Wall Street Journal reports that the FDA has sent out feelers to drug manufacturers to provide “longer-term efficacy data” for psychotropic drugs. This comes after a mountain of evidence shows placebo “works” just as…
Acting FDA Head Temporarily Drops NCI Duty – WashPost Sat, 1 Oct 2005 Who is kidding who? The appointment of a long time Bush friend, Dr. Andrew Eschenbach, head of the National Cancer Institue, as acting commissioner of the Food and Drug Adminsitration reeks of conflicts of interest–not just one…
Labeling Kids Mentally Ill for Profit – E. Pringle Mon, 14 Mar 2005 Independent, investigative reporters in Texas, Illinois, Ohio, FloridaŠare questioning the rationale for the recommendations of President Bush’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health report calling for universal screening for mental illness. These investigative reporter have discovered that…
Obesity Researcher AdmitsFabricating Data- $3 Mill Fraud in Gov Grants – Boston Globe Fri, 18 Mar 2005 The Boston Globe reports about the worst case of scientific fraud to come to light. Dr. Eric Poehlman, a star among obesity researchers, faces jail time. He overstated the effects of menopause on…
Use of combinations of antipsychotics–Harms Patients: McLean & Leipzig Wed, 21 Sep 2005 Two additional studies provide additional evidence (coffin nails) demonstrating how psychiatry’s marriage of convenience gave birth to rotten fruit: specifically, under the influence of pharmaceutical companies, psychiatry plunged irresponsibly into practicing polypsychoparmacology. The evidence from these studies…
<p> Big Pharma’s Shameful Secret – Bloomberg News <br> Most Clinical Trials Stopped Early for “perceived” benefit later turned out false – JAMA </p> <p> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 </p> <p> A six part Special Report by Bloomberg News reveals that “Every year, drug companies spend $14 billion to test…
Director of NIH Agrees To Loosen Ethics Rules Fri, 26 Aug 2005 “All animals are equal…but some animals are more equal than others….” The rules on conflict of interest for scientists at the National Institutes of Health have once again been changed to accommodate public servants with an overpowering sense…
10 of 32 FDA Vioxx Panelists Had Industry Ties_NYT / Cozy NIH Review “Clears” NIH Industry Ties_WashPost Fri, 25 Feb 2005 The latest example of the corrupting influence of the pharmaceutical industry on health care policy is the composition of FDA’s advisory panel that last week endorsed the marketing of…
