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Revealed: How Drug Firms 'Hoodwink' Medical Journals Can you believe this? Pharmaceutical giants hire ghostwriters to produce articles - then put doctors' names on them. Research is financed by companies to prove that their product is good, not to investigate whether it is or not. With this viewpoint, statistics can then be misused by ghost writers, under the guise of being written by credible researchers, to advance a product. These published reports then become the accepted gospel of medicine. This gospel is then used to determine public policy, standards of care, and medical advice. No wonder we have a health care crisis. True solutions to remedy health problems that really promote health that are then are not financed by drug companies, are then not in the journals, are then not recommended by doctors, and then are not utilized by the people. Heavy promotion makes sales happen. This is all that seems to matter. Advising people, "take your daily acid blocker (like Prilosec, Zantac, and Tagomet)", to millions of people every day is not good medicine. Do you know that when a drug company funds a "research study" there is usually a clause in the contract that says if the results aren't to the liking of the drug company that they have the right to veto publishing of the findings! Read on for the full report. But you might want to consider taking some ginger first to prevent you from getting sick to your stomach. Antony Barnett, public affairs
editor Sunday December 7, 2003 The
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