Our Daily Meds, Some scientists view medical literature as propaganda

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[ Peterson found example after example of science compromised by marketing. ], Bill Moyers noted on Bill Moyers Journal on PBS when interviewing Melody Petersen, author of a new book called Our Daily Meds: How The Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves Into Slick Marketing Machines And Hooked The Nation On Prescription Drugs.

Its gone so far, that some independent scientists are starting to view our medical literature as propaganda.

Ive learned there are so many different ways for a study to be designed to get the data that will help you sell your drug.

If you want to make it look more powerful then an older drug on the market, you give the volunteers in your trial the older drugs at a dose that is too low to really help them, so your drug looks better.

if you want your drug to look safer than an older drug, you boost the dose up of the older drug in the volunteers so you have more side effects.

If you have one study that shows it works, and one study showed that it did not, you published the first study over and over again with the help of your advertising agency, and you dont publish the second one.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• prescription
• drugs
• medicines
• drug
• industry
• pharmaceutical
• deaths

[larryshobbs]

I agree.

[TheStallion3]

I highly suggest reading her book.