Who knows which data is bogus? Is Big Pharma America’s new Mafia?

Pharmaceutical companies have more power than ever, and the American people are paying the price—too often with our lives …

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Pharmaceutical companies have more power than ever, and the American people are paying the price—too often with our lives says @thedailybeast .

” … as physicians, we have very little good information to go on. Even our most prestigious journals publish research based on falsified studies, according to Charles Seife, a journalism professor whose class spent a semester trying to figure out why the data don’t get corrected once research fraud comes to light. “As a result,” Seife writes, “nobody ever finds out which data is bogus, which experiments are tainted, and which drugs might be on the market under false pretenses.”

If no one knows which data is bogus, we obviously have a big problem in conventional medicine. Perhaps we shouldn’t be so focused on marketing shenanigans, and more concerned about the original study data before something becomes standard of care. Standard of care, of course, is driven by “research” that is incorporated into academic guidelines and is the basis of customer demand.”

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