The Pharmaceutical Cartel

February 25, 2003

The Pharmaceutical companies are certainly NOT " leading the search for cures "

but are in fact responsible for " creating " some devastating diseases and

squelching any independent research that does discover a cure.

" It used to be that drug companies simply gave grants to academic medical

centres for the use of their clinical researchers to do a study and that was it.

It was at arm's length. The researcher did a study and he or she published the

results, whatever those results would be. Now, it's very, very different. The

drug companies increasingly design the studies. They keep the data. They don't

even let the researchers see the data. They analyse the data. They decide

whether they're going to even publish the data at the end of it. They sign

contracts with researchers and with academic medical centres saying that they

don't get to publish their work unless they get permission from the drug

company. So, you can see that the distortion starts even before publication. It

starts in determining what's going to be published and what isn't going to be

published. This is no longer arm's length. It's treating the researchers and the

academic medical centres as though they were hired guns or technicians or

something. They just do the work. And the drug company will decide what the data

show, what the conclusions are and whether it will even be published. "

------ Dr Marcia Angell, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Australian

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