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Widespread Ghostwriting of Drug Trials Means " Scientific " Credibility of

Pharmaceutical Industry is a Sham

http://www.naturalnews.com/023074.html

 

 The discovery that drug companies have been ghostwriting scientific studies

using in-house writers, then paying (bribing) doctors and high-level academics

to pretend they were the author of the article is making shockwaves across

conventional medicine. This latest revelation of scientific fraud exposes a

massive, widespread system of fraud involving not only the drug companies, but

also hundreds of different peer-reviewed, " scientific " medical journals that

have published these ghostwritten articles. This scam is the latest

embarrassment to conventional medicine; a system built on such a foundation of

scientific fraud that the admission of dishonesty no longer surprises anyone.

The pharmaceutical industry, it seems, is now supported almost entirely by

fraudulent science fabricated by marketing personnel.

 

Remember, it is these studies -- the very ones now discovered to be ghostwritten

by Big Pharma's in-house authors -- that the FDA uses to approve these drugs,

unleashing them onto the public where potentially hundreds of millions of doses

of the drug may be sold in just the first few years of its approval. But what

we're learning now is that the whole system is an elaborate scam. For these

studies, there's no real science involved at all.

 

To back this up, let me explain how this scam works in seven simple steps:

 

Step 1: A drug company runs an in-house study (using fraudulent study design

from the start) to " prove " that their drug is both safe and effective. If the

study produces negative results, it is thrown out. If it produces positive

results, proceed to step 2.

 

Step 2: That same drug company uses in-house writers ( " ghost writers " ) to write

up the results of the study in a favorable light by discarding any data that

doesn't fit the desired outcome. Note that these in-house writers are marketing

people, not doctors or scientists, and they are on Big Pharma's payroll!

 

Step 3: The drug company contacts a noted doctor or academic and offers to pay

them a bribe (a " writing fee " ) to put their name on the paper as if they were

the original author. In reality, the paper has already been completely written

and the doctor needs to write nothing.

 

Step 4: The paper is submitted to peer-reviewed academic journals (such as JAMA)

for publication. Since the paper appears to have been independently written by

an outside scientist or doctor, the journal is far more likely to consider it

credible. Thus, it gets more easily published. The drug company reveals nothing

about the true origins of the paper.

 

Step 5: The drug company that sponsored all this forwards the peer-reviewed,

published study to the FDA, claiming this is now " scientific fact " that proves

their drug is both safe and effective. Since the study was published in a

peer-reviewed medical journal, it must be true, right?

 

Step 6: The FDA, which conducts no drug safety studies of its own, automatically

believes the conclusions of the study (since it was published in a credible

journal, after all), and therefore approves the drug for sale! From there, the

FDA claims its decisions are based on the " gold standard of evidence-based

medicine! "

 

Step 7: Once the drug is approved by the FDA, the drug company then claims the

drug has been declared safe and effective by an independent government agency,

and therefore the drug must indeed be both safe and effective. In other words,

even though the drug company fabricated much of the evidence used by the FDA to

make their approval decision, the drug company still claims that the FDA's

decision is an independent, science-based approval of their drug! Furthermore,

the drug companies are now arguing that FDA approval should immunize them from

any lawsuits or claims of harm stemming from their drugs. Amazing, huh?

 

From here, doctors are medical personnel are taught that the drug is backed by

good science and that the FDA has independently reviewed the evidence and

approved the drug. Therefore, it's safe to prescribe to patients. What nobody

has been told, however, is that the entire process -- from the drug studies to

drug approvals -- was fabricated!

 

Or, put another way, as long as ghostwriting is tolerated in conventional

medicine, the pharmaceutical industry has lost all credibility and is now

clearly based on science fraud and marketing gimmicks, not genuine evidence. And

remember, ghostwriting is not a new issue. It's been going on for decades. The

only thing new about this issue is that it has been exposed in once-secret court

documents that just happened to come out during a recent Merck trial.

 

 

Medical Journals Should Retract All Ghostwritten Articles

NaturalNews is now calling for all peer-reviewed medical journals to determine

the true authorship of all scientific articles they've published over the last

ten years and retract all ghostwritten articles.

 

That would be quite a list, likely involving tens of thousands of published

studies. The medical journals, of course, won't bother with that process. You

know why? Because just like the drug companies, they'd rather sweep their

scientific fraud under the rug than admit they've been played by Big Pharma or

participated in a massive campaign of scientific fraud that now calls into

question the credibility of virtually all medical journals (except for PLoS

Medicine, of course, which remains independent and honest).

 

You see, all the big players were in on this scam: The drug companies, the

medical journals, the FDA, the researchers and even the doctors and academics

who accepted as much as $25,000 per study to slap their name on a paper already

written by Big Pharma's in-house marketing writers. I guess credibility is cheap

in conventional medicine. The entire reputation of a doctor can be purchased for

as little as $10,000. Similarly, the integrity of the entire industry can be

bought with Big Pharma's dollars. There's nothing in modern pharmaceutical

medicine that isn't for sale... not even scientific credibility.

 

 

The FDA Should Retract its Approval of All Drugs Based on Ghostwritten Studies

Think about this: The evidence used by the FDA to approve drugs is now known to

be tainted. If this were a state or federal court, that evidence would be thrown

out as being " inadmissible. " But at the FDA, there's no such thing as pro-drug

evidence that's too tainted to accept as fact. (There are truly zero standards

for scientific evidence at the FDA, at least with the top decision makers. They

can accept any piece of fraudulent evidence as fact, no matter how " poisoned "

the evidence might be.)

 

Based on what we now know, the FDA needs to retract its approval of numerous

drugs that were approved based on ghostwritten papers. In other words, if the

FDA's original approval of these drugs was based on scientific fraud, then the

FDA needs to rectify the situation and withdraw the approval of those drugs

until proper studies can be conducted.

 

Will the FDA engage in such retractions? Of course not. There's not motivation

to do so. The FDA isn't interested in good science or protecting the public.

It's only interested in boosting Big Pharma's profits using whatever methods of

collusion, corruption and scientific fraud it can get away with.

 

I say that if the FDA refuses to retract the approvals of drugs based on

ghostwritten studies, the FDA has zero remaining credibility and has abandoned

anything resembling " evidence-based medicine. " In other words, the FDA is a

willing partner in this widespread campaign of scientific fraud, and even when

the fraud is discovered, the FDA does nothing to attempt to reestablish

scientific credibility. Real science, it seems, has zero priority at the FDA.

 

 

The Pharmaceutical Racket

So now we have Big Pharma, the FDA and the top medical journals all engaged in a

massive conspiracy to deceive the public, to win approval for dangerous drugs,

and to prop up the pharmaceutical industry with fabricated evidence on drug

safety that was actually written by Big Pharma's in-house marketing writers.

This is clearly a grand pharmaceutical racket, operated much like a system of

organized crime. Except these criminals, it seems, have not yet been arrested

and charged with any crimes. (That day is coming, however...)

 

Now I ask you this: How stupid are doctors if they still believe in all this

fabricated evidence? Because I've met a lot of M.D.s who believe so strongly in

the " evidence " behind pharmaceuticals that they'll argue your ears off about the

science of pharmaceuticals vs. the " wishful thinking " of nutritional

supplements. It makes you wonder just how gullible doctors really are. (In

truth, they're incredibly gullible. All it takes is a visit by a young, bubbly

drug rep wearing a push-up bra to radically alter the brand-name drug

prescribing habits of a typical M.D.)

 

And how gullible are patients who believe Big Pharma or the FDA? To believe in

this system of fraudulent " junk " science and manipulated clinical trials is

downright foolish. And yet hundreds of millions of Americans take

pharmaceuticals every single day -- drugs that make them no healthier and that,

in fact, may harm them or kill them.

 

Folks, it is time for the United States of America to wake up and realize we've

all been conned by Big Pharma. We've been hoodwinked by a band of clever

hucksters sporting academic degrees and authoritative-sounding titles. We've

been had. Let us now end this foolishness by retracting all published studies

based on fraudulent ghostwriting, retracting all FDA-approved drugs based on

these fraudulent studies, and prosecuting the top pharmaceutical companies for

the widespread fraud they have so cleverly designed and unleashed in pursuit of

the almighty dollar. It is time to invoke established federal anti-trust laws

and go after these companies, putting them out of business once and for all and

thereby saving countless American children, adults and senior citizens from

death by dangerous pharmaceuticals.

 

 

 

 

Bonita Poulin

 

Canadian Coordinator

GLOBAL RECOGNITION CAMPAIGN

Multiple Chemical Sensitivity

and other Chemically Induced Illnesses, Diseases & Injury

affecting civilians and military personnel

www.mcs-global.org 

More coordinators needed!