Wednesday, January 30th, 2013
Stephan: This is a trend about one of the little recognized but very pernicious consequences of the illness profit system of healthcare. I have written about this several times (See SR archives, the Huffington Post archives, and the Explore Journal archives.) But it just keeps growing, probably because there is so little public attention.
Excerpted from 'Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
Sponsors get the answer they want.
Before we get going, we need to establish one thing beyond any doubt: Industry-funded trials are more likely than independently funded trials to produce a positive, flattering result. This is our core premise, and one of the most well-documented phenomena in the growing field of ‘research about research.
