Systematic Review: Faulty Clinical Trial Analyses Favor new toxic drugs
Two important analyses in Open Medicine , a peer-reviewed, independent, open-access journal, focus on methodological flaws in data analysis of randomized drug trials.
Merck Paid Elsevier to Publish Phony Peer-Review Journal
Merck is reported to have created a fake "peer-reviewed" journal to present favorable data that made its potentially fatal drugs–Fosamax and Vioxx–look good.
Does the FDA have the authority to trump the Declaration of Helsinki?
The FDA is sliding rapidly down the slippery slope, abandoning widely accepted, international ethical research standards articulated in the internationally accepted, Declaration of Helsinki–to facilitate commercial medical experiments.
AHRP Letter to Harvard Re: Dr. Biederman’s Research
AHRP proposes a multi-disciplinary team of independent scientists to review ALL of Dr. Joseph Biederman’s publications and supporting documents, including: research protocols, consent forms, and the original (of course, anonymized) data sets with associated code books for all pediatric studies.
Harvard-Partners Hospitals Curtail Industry-Doctor $$ Perks
Dr. Peter Slavin, president of Mass. General Hospital: "We don’t want our faculty being on the road as hired guns."
Harvard Psychiatrists Primed For a Fall
The New York Times reports that Federal prosecutors have issued a subpoena seeking information and all documents including transcripts of their testimony produced in litigation relating to three prominent Harvard researchers…
AHRP Letter of Complaint to AMA-JAMA
AHRP has sent a letter of complaint to the American Medical Association and the JAMA Oversight Committee calling for a public apology to Dr. Jonathan Leo by the AMA, a thorough investigation, the immediate suspension of the two editors involved, and a commitment to reviewing, clarifying and publishing JAMA’s editorial policies to protect against future violations of standards for professional conduct
Sen. Grassley Letter to Harvard: Biederman Research Protocol Breaches
The most shocking disclosure is that Dr. Biederman’s study testing powerful antipsychotics in PRESCHOOL CHILDREN "was beset by breaches of research protocol,"
Grassley to Harvard & Mass General: Biederman Protocol Breach
The most shocking disclosure: a Biederman study testing the use of powerful antipsychotics in PRESCHOOL CHILDREN "was beset by breaches of research protocol."
JAMA Editor Should Apologize & Resign
JAMA Editor Ignites Firestorm By Calling Critic a ‘Nobody and a Nothing’_WSJ
Two Cases of Massive Fraud–Anesthesiology–Psychiatry
Two major cases of medical fraud have undermined patient safety and the integrity of the medico-scientific literature: But how each specialty responded is a study in contrast.
ADDENDUM: Scientifically Invalid SSRI Study
When scientists are for sale and "peer reviewed" journals publish planted commercial pronouncements masquerading as "science" news reports, the public is advised to disregard those "news" reports and wait for the evidence to be independently examined and either corroborated or refuted.