This episode answers the question: "Doctors Would Not Recommend Cholesterol-lowering Drugs if they Were Not Good for Us, Right?"
- Chapter 14: "Doctors Would Not Recommend Cholesterol-lowering Drugs if they Were Not Good for Us, Right?"
- Chapter 15: Medical Ethics and Conflict of Interest in Scientific Medicine
Chapter Excerpts
Most doctors are not "in" on the cholesterol conspiracy. They are just as much victims to it as is the public. Doctors are only doing what they learn both directly and indirectly from the pharmaceutical companies.
What the American public did not know, however, was that the tobacco industry funded and supported most of the latest and "up-to-date" research about the "safety" of cigarette smoking. This is not unlike today’s pharmaceutical companies funding the latest and most "upto-date" research regarding the "safety" of their drugs.
According to the medical experts, the medical research, with the American Cancer Society and the "all-powerful, all-knowing" American Medical Association concurring, the world now knew without any doubt that not only was cigarette smoking unharmful, but that it actually helped reduce lung cancer.
An ABC report noted that a survey of clinical trials revealed that when drug companies did not fund a study, favorable results regarding a drug were found only 50 percent of the time. In studies funded by drug companies, favorable results about the drugs were reported an amazing 90% of the time.
The amount of money the pharmaceutical companies give to colleges and universities to obtain the results they want is staggering, and it is getting worse.
Chapter References
- 12: Tobacco Timeline. http://www.tobacco.org.
- 13: Weiner J. Smoking and Cancer: The Cigarette Papers: How the Industry is Trying to Smoke Us All. The Nation, January 1, 1996 11-18.
- 14: World Health Organization, Press Release Bulletin #9, Dec. 17, 2001.
- 15: Angell M. Is academic medicine for sale? N Engl J Med. 2000 May 18; 342(20):1516-1518.
- 16: Crossen C. Tainted Truth: The Manipulation of Fact in America. 1996. Touchstone Books.
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