FOR THE CHILDREN

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#31 TABLE OF CONTENTS healthfully, over 1,200 pages downloaded per day.

#7 TABLE OF CONTENTS skeptically, over 8,000 pages downloaded per day.

#201 TABLE OF CONTENTS CURRENT NEWS , over 900 pages downloaded per day

#209 THE ARTISTS

# 220 POD CASTS & U-TUBE, for those who like the visual on skeptical issues

#158 RECOMMENDED GATEWAY PAGE Gateway to the research on pharma and health

#152 RECOMMENDATIONS--CONCISE Bad drugs, good drugs, contra pharma

#161 RECOMMENDED HEALTHFUL Improving health including diet

#157 Video documentaries, mostly YouTube Healthful diet, bad pharma, GMOs etc. with description

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#158 RECOMMENDED GATEWAY PAGE

#152 RECOMMENDATIONS--CONCISE Drugs to avoid and take

#159 RECOMMENDATIONS--LONG Topics developed

#160 RECOMMENDED EXPOSIING PHARMA Profits before people

#161 RECOMMENDED HEALTHFUL Improving health including diet

#156 RECOMMENDATIONS NON-TECHNICAL SUMMATIONS Simple info and recommendations

#157 RECOMMENDED MORE BAD PHARMA More profits before people

#166 RECOMMENDED CRITICS

#17 QUACKERY (at skeptically.org)

#102 QUACK THEORIES & PRACTICES (at skeptically.org)

#41 MEDICAL CRAP

#130 MEDICAL CRAP MORE,

#132 IMAGINARY CONDITIONS

#134 ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE

#136 ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH

#137 DRUG NEWS--DISAPPOINTING

#141 BIG PHARMA AT WORK

#145 MANAGED HEALTH CARE

#146 FDA Exposing the façade of regulation

#147 FOR THE CHILDREN

#162 CORPORATE DRUGS

#150 BLOOD THINNERS AND ACETAMINOPHEN

#152 INDIGESTION DRUGS

#151 FAILED DRUGS

GENERAL INFORMATION:

#36 WOMEN'S MEDICAL ISSUES

#45 MALE HORMONE REPLACEMENT

#148 FEMALE HORMONE REPLACEMENT

#167 SEX

#154 FOOD

#159 DIET JOURNAL ARTICLES

#50 ASPIRIN THE BEST NSAID

#144 HEART MEDICATIONS & TREATMENTS

#139 CANCER VARIOUS TISSUES

#155 CANCER TREATMENTS

#165. CONDITIONS & TREATMENTS

#46 MEDICAL SCIENCE

#47 MEDICAL NEWS

#48 DRUGS AND CONDITIONS

#140 HEALTH & BODY

#142 GERIATRIC PROBLEMS

#149 PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS

#163 NATURALISTIC TREATMENTS (positive)

#153 EFFECTIVE DRUGS

MISCELLANEOUS:

#1 ENLIGHTENMENT

#37 BIOGRAPHICAL

#38 LINKS ELSEWHERE

#33 PROSE SATIRE

#34 RHYMED POEMS

#39 RHYMED POEMS ROMANTIC

#40 RHYMED POEMS MELONCHOLY

#42 RHYMED POEMS SOCIAL MESSAGE

#43 RHYMED POEMS SATIRE

#209 THE ARTISTS

#210 SHORT STORY, ETC.

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There is an alarming laxity in the production of research, education of public and doctors, and standards of FDA approval for drugs, as well as the monitoring of safety and effectiveness of drugs. For 2 chapters of the best book on how big PHARMA has manipulated the above and much more by Doctor Marcia Angell (Harvard Professor and former editor of New England Journal of Medicine).

Patrick Woodroffe

Drugs are tested by the people who manufacture them, in poorly designed trials, on hopelessly small numbers of weird, unrepresentative patients, and analysed using techniques which are flawed by design, in such a way that they exaggerate the benefits of treatments. Unsurprisingly, these trials tend to produce results that favour the manufacturer. When trials throw up results that companies don't like, they are perfectly entitled to hide them from doctors and patients, so we only ever see a distorted picture of any drug's true effects. Regulators see most of the trial data, but only from early on in a drug's life, and even then they don't give this data to doctors or patients, or even to other parts of government. This distorted evidence is then communicated and applied in a distorted fashion. In their forty years of practice after leaving medical school, doctors hear about what works through ad hoc oral traditions, from sales reps, colleagues or journals. But those colleagues can be in the pay of drug companies – often undisclosed – and the journals are too. And so are the patient groups. And finally, academic papers, which everyone thinks of as objective, are often covertly planned and written by people who work directly for the companies, without disclosure. Sometimes whole academic journals are even owned outright by one drug company. Aside from all this, for several of the most important and enduring problems in medicine, we have no idea what the best treatment is, because it's not in anyone's financial interest to conduct any trials at all. These are ongoing problems, and although people have claimed to fix many of them, for the most part they have failed; so all these problems persist, but worse than ever, because now people can pretend that everything is fine after all. Prof. Ben Goldacre, MD, Bad Pharma, Page XI, Nov. 2012

Medical science is like a minefield where industry tobacco science is buried beneath the façade of science, and there are only indirect signs of industry sponsorship.

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Patrick Woodroffe

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Those who have a financial interest in the outcome manipulate the results, Major study finds that all 37 journal articles positive effects over stated; the average was 32%.