Karl Frederick
07-30-2015, 10:47 AM
When you are about to give up on old standard treatments in order to try the newest pharmaceutical quick fix, consider this article by Charles Seife, a journalism professor at New York University.
From Slate.com . . .
Are Your Medications Safe? (https://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/02/fda_inspections_fraud_fabrication_and_scientific_misconduct_are_hidden_from.single.html)
The FDA buries evidence of fraud in medical trials. My students and I dug it up.
from the article's concluding paragraphs:
". . . the FDA is deeply captured (https://edge.org/response-detail/23674), drawn firmly into the orbit of the pharmaceutical industry that it’s supposed to regulate. We can no longer hope that the situation will get better without firm action from the legislature."
From Slate.com . . .
Are Your Medications Safe? (https://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/02/fda_inspections_fraud_fabrication_and_scientific_misconduct_are_hidden_from.single.html)
The FDA buries evidence of fraud in medical trials. My students and I dug it up.
from the article's concluding paragraphs:
". . . the FDA is deeply captured (https://edge.org/response-detail/23674), drawn firmly into the orbit of the pharmaceutical industry that it’s supposed to regulate. We can no longer hope that the situation will get better without firm action from the legislature."