Bias/Fraud
The impact of bias and fraud on research integrity
Will Another Blockbuster Drug Hit the Dust?
"The vote is an enormous blow to Avandia and GlaxoSmithKline. The vast majority of panel members voted either to withdraw the drug or to allow continued sales only if strict controls are added"
Read MoreNIH Needs Sunshine Law Enforcement
The dust-up involving Dr. Charles Nemeroff and Dr. Thomas Insell, director of NIMH shines a light on NIH leaders whose failure to enforce federal disclosure requirements is brushed off with excuses so untenable they have the ring of theater of the absurd.
Read MoreNIH Reform Compromised By Chief NIMH Psychiatrist
"Dr. Nemeroff has become the poster child for what’s wrong with academic medicine in our country." Dr. Thomas Insell, Director of the NIMH, quietly helped him get a prized position at the University of Miami.
Read MoreNew Theory of Alzheimer’s Explains Drug Failures
A stunning admission of failure by major drug manufacturers who market drugs for the treatment of Alzheimer’s. "We really believe drugs are failing because we honestly don’t understand the disease."
Read More“Unhinged: the Trouble with Psychiatry”
"The resulting frenzy of psychiatric diagnoses has damaged the credibility of everyone in the field."
Read MoreEli Lilly Exec Heads to Harvard Medical School
"Does this appointment signify that Harvard Medical School intends to even further strengthen its research ties to the pharmaceutical industry?"
Read MoreJAMA Antidepressant Meta-analysis Reveals 22 Years of Deception
Twenty-two years after the US marketing of Prozac, JAMA meta-analysis shows antidepressants to be worthless for most of the people for whom they are prescribed.
Read MorePsychosurgery Promoted by NYT: Here We Go, Again
"Only 3 patients were in remission without adverse effects at long-term follow-up."
Read More84% Americans Blame Big Pharma for Healthcare mess
Big Pharma’s defense for its inequitable U.S. pricing is grounded on a Big Lie
Read MoreIs the Schizophrenia Mortality Study in The Lancet CREDIBLE?
Unless the overall treatment and services provided to schizophrenia patients in Finland is unique and especially protective—which the authors do not suggest—their claimed findings of lowered mortality rates for antipsychotic drug users are belied by a consistent body of evidence.
Read MoreWorld Conference Science Journalists
So far as I can tell, the panel that I was asked to participate in was the only one that focused on the pharmaceutical industry.
Read MoreGene Theory for Depression Is Now Discredited
The study, reported in The Journal of the American Medical Association, "found no evidence of an association between the serotonin gene and the risk of depression, no matter what people’s life experience was."
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