What is described below is true of
every developed nation as to journal articles, bias, raw data and their regulatory
agencies of those nations. Regulations
have been politicalized in an attempt to make the people believe that the drugs
they take are safe and effective. The
article below expose the façade. The
research is owned by the pharmaceutical company which funds the study, and they
are free to manipulate the results as they see fit. The few studies done by
the FDA are not
better, since they function to promote the pharmaceutical industry. The article
below is a wake-up call to let
the reader know what Harvard
Prof. Dr. Marcia
Angell stated in a
lecture: “We certainly are in a health care crisis, ... If
we had set out to
design the worst system that we could imagine, we couldn't have imagined one as
bad as we have.” The corporate media on
rare occasions airs a negate word about their biggest advertiser, and it is done
for to create the illusion of being fair and balanced. This can exist only in a Corporatist
State (world)--jk.
Volume
358:252-260, January 17, 2008, Number
3 http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/358/3/252
Bias http://healthfully.org/index/id9.html
Selective Publication of Antidepressant Trials
and Its Influence on Apparent Efficacy between 11-69% average 32%,
12 anti-depressants involving 12,54 patients, published results compared to FDA
outcomes. “According to the literature
it appears that 94% of the trials conducted were positive. By contrast FDA analysis
showed that 51% were
positive …. studies that were not positive, in our opinion, were often
published in a way that conveyed a positive outcome.” “The FDA uses raw data from
the submitting drug companies for each study. This makes great sense, as the
FDA statisticians can then compare their analyses to the analyses from drug
companies, in order to make sure that the drug companies were analyzing their
data accurately…. Unlike the FDA, journals are not checking raw data. ”
That is
every single drug approved by the FDA for depression between 1987 and 2004.
Just a few of many tales of data suppression and/or spinning can be found
below:
· Data reported on only 1 of 15 participants in an Abilify study
· Data hidden for about 10 years on a negative Zoloft
for PTSD study
· Suicide
attempts vanishing from a Prozac study
· Long delay in reporting negative results from an Effexor for youth depression study
· Data from Abilify study spun in dizzying fashion. Proverbial lipstick
on a pig.
· A trove of questionable practices involving a key
opinion leader
· Corcept heavily spins its negative antidepressant trial results