Yes, I definitely believe that many pharmaceutical companies are corrupt.
When you have drug companies that pay researchers to conduct the studies on their own drugs, the results these researchers find are bound to be favorable to the drugs they are “studying.” Add to this the fact that, when they publish their results in professional publications, many of these researchers don’t divulge the fact that they have pharmaceutical company ties, and you have real trouble.
I hope that visitors to this forum will be interested in reading several articles, and visiting several websites, that I have discovered over the past year or so that do an excellent job of exposing this terrible crisis.
Although there is not enough space here to give scores of examples of relevant websites and articles, I can refer you to a few: http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/, http://the-whistleblower-by-peter-rost.blogspot.com/, http://clinpsyc.blogspot.com/, http://scientific-misconduct.blogspot.com/ and http://pharmagossip.blogspot.com/. I hope you will visit them all; the information they contain is eye-opening. Please plan to spend some serious time on Dr. Aubrey Blumsohn’s Scientific Misconduct blog (link above). The facts that Dr. Blumsohn reveals about his own personal saga at the hands of one of the largest and most powerful pharmaceutical companies may shock you. Well worth your time.
One article I hope you will also want to read is a 3-parter on my website, http://www.honestmedicine.com,'>http://www.honestmedicine.com, entitled "The JAMA Controversy," in which I elaborate on the flak that ensued after the “Wall Street Journal” revealed that the “Journal of the American Medical Association” (JAMA) had published a study whose physician/authors had serious financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry. You may (or may not) be shocked to learn that my research for this article turned up the fact that JAMA actually used video news releases (VNRs, or “fake news”) to publicize these “studies.”
In addition, several articles that I link to from the left-hand side of my site, http://www.honestmedicine.com -- especially the links under "PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES" and "CANCER" –- give numerous examples of pharmaceutical company corruption, as does my JAMA article, which can be found at http://301url.com/jama-all
Thanks for allowing me to air my views. This seems to be a wonderful forum!
Julia Schopick
http://www.honestmedicine.typepad.com
