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Saturday, 24 July 2010

Avandia and cheque-book science

Getting a pharmaceutical drug to market is a costly business for the Big Pharma companies. They either to withhold or change RCT evidence, and/or pay scientists to 'interpret' the testing evidence more 'favourably' - for the drug, and for drug company profits. Like they did with Avandia, their asthma drug, which is proving to be so harmful.

http://www.naturalnews.com/029268_financial_ties_Avandia.html

The health and safety of the patient comes no-where in this sordid scenario.

Again, this is not new news. Vested interests, and the involvement of science within those vested interests are well known. For the whole, sordid process of how science fails to protect patients, see

Medical Science. The failure to protect.

So if you have asthma, try homeopathy! It's more effective, its safer, and it is a lot less expensive.