On Apr 21, 11:48=A0pm, Ilena Rose <B...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Bravo from Health Lover, Ilena Rosenthal
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> (NaturalNews) The discovery that drug companies have been ghostwriting
> scientific studies using in-house writers, then paying (bribing)
> doctors and high-level academics to pretend they were the author of
> the article is making shockwaves across conventional medicine. This
> latest revelation of scientific fraud exposes a massive, widespread
> system of fraud involving not only the drug companies, but also
> hundreds of different peer-reviewed, "scientific" medical journals
> that have published these ghostwritten articles. This scam is the
> latest embarrassment to conventional medicine; a system built on such
> a foundation of scientific fraud that the admission of dishonesty no
> longer surprises anyone. The pharmaceutical industry, it seems, is now
> sup****ted almost entirely by fraudulent science fabricated by
> marketing personnel.
>
> Remember, it is these studies -- the very ones now discovered to be
> ghostwritten by Big Pharma's in-house authors -- that the FDA uses to
> approve these drugs, unlea****ng them onto the public where potentially
> hundreds of millions of doses of the drug may be sold in just the
> first few years of its approval. But what we're learning now is that
> the whole system is an elaborate scam. For these studies, there's no
> real science involved at all.
>
> To back this up, let me explain how this scam works in seven simple
> steps:
>
> Step 1: A drug company runs an in-house study (using fraudulent study
> design from the start) to "prove" that their drug is both safe and
> effective. If the study produces negative results, it is thrown out.
> If it produces positive results, proceed to step 2.
>
> Step 2: That same drug company uses in-house writers ("ghost writers")
> to write up the results of the study in a favorable light by
> discarding any data that doesn't fit the desired outcome. Note that
> these in-house writers are marketing people, not doctors or
> scientists, and they are on Big Pharma's payroll!
>
> Step 3: The drug company contacts a noted doctor or academic and
> offers to pay them a bribe (a "writing fee") to put their name on the
> paper as if they were the original author. In reality, the paper has
> already been completely written and the doctor needs to write nothing.
>
> Step 4: The paper is submitted to peer-reviewed academic journals
> (such as JAMA) for publication. Since the paper appears to have been
> independently written by an outside scientist or doctor, the journal
> is far more likely to consider it credible. Thus, it gets more easily
> published. The drug company reveals nothing about the true origins of
> the paper.
>
> Step 5: The drug company that sponsored all this forwards the
> peer-reviewed, published study to the FDA, claiming this is now
> "scientific fact" that proves their drug is both safe and effective.
> Since the study was published in a peer-reviewed medical journal, it
> must be true, right?
>
> Step 6: The FDA, which conducts no drug safety studies of its own,
> automatically believes the conclusions of the study (since it was
> published in a credible journal, after all), and therefore approves
> the drug for sale! From there, the FDA claims its decisions are based
> on the "gold standard of evidence-based medicine!"
>
> Step 7: Once the drug is approved by the FDA, the drug company then
> claims the drug has been declared safe and effective by an independent
> government agency, and therefore the drug must indeed be both safe and
> effective. In other words, even though the drug company fabricated
> much of the evidence used by the FDA to make their approval decision,
> the drug company still claims that the FDA's decision is an
> independent, science-based approval of their drug! Furthermore, the
> drug companies are now arguing that FDA approval should immunize them
> from any lawsuits or claims of harm stemming from their drugs.
> Amazing, huh?
>
> From here, doctors are medical personnel are taught that the drug is
> backed by good science and that the FDA has independently reviewed the
> evidence and approved the drug. Therefore, it's safe to prescribe to
> patients. What nobody has been told, however, is that the entire
> process -- from the drug studies to drug approvals -- was fabricated!
>
> Or, put another way, as long as ghostwriting is tolerated in
> conventional medicine, the pharmaceutical industry has lost all
> credibility and is now clearly based on science fraud and marketing
> gimmicks, not genuine evidence. And remember, ghostwriting is not a
> new issue. It's been going on for decades. The only thing new about
> this issue is that it has been exposed in once-secret court do***ents
> that just happened to come out during a recent Merck trial.
>
> Medical Journals Should Retract All Ghostwritten Articles
> NaturalNews is now calling for all peer-reviewed medical journals to
> determine the true author****p of all scientific articles they've
> published over the last ten years and retract all ghostwritten
> articles.
>
> That would be quite a list, likely involving tens of thousands of
> published studies. The medical journals, of course, won't bother with
> that process. You know why? Because just like the drug companies,
> they'd rather sweep their scientific fraud under the rug than admit
> they've been played by Big Pharma or participated in a massive
> campaign of scientific fraud that now calls into question the
> credibility of virtually all medical journals (except for PLoS
> Medicine, of course, which remains independent and honest).
>
> You see, all the big players were in on this scam: The drug companies,
> the medical journals, the FDA, the researchers and even the doctors
> and academics who accepted as much as $25,000 per study to slap their
> name on a paper already written by Big Pharma's in-house marketing
> writers. I guess credibility is cheap in conventional medicine. The
> entire reputation of a doctor can be purchased for as little as
> $10,000. Similarly, the integrity of the entire industry can be bought
> with Big Pharma's dollars. There's nothing in modern pharmaceutical
> medicine that isn't for sale... not even scientific credibility.
>
> The FDA Should Retract its Approval of All Drugs Based on Ghostwritten
> Studies
> Think about this: The evidence used by the FDA to approve drugs is now
> known to be tainted. If this were a state or federal court, that
> evidence would be thrown out as being "inadmissible." But at the FDA,
> there's no such thing as pro-drug evidence that's too tainted to
> accept as fact. (There are truly zero standards for scientific
> evidence at the FDA, at least with the top decision makers. They can
> accept any piece of fraudulent evidence as fact, no matter how
> "poisoned" the evidence might be.)
>
> Based on what we now know, the FDA needs to retract its approval of
> numerous drugs that were approved based on ghostwritten papers. In
> other words, if the FDA's original approval of these drugs was based
> on scientific fraud, then the FDA needs to rectify the situation and
> withdraw the approval of those drugs until proper studies can be
> conducted.
>
> Will the FDA engage in such retractions? Of course not. There's not
> motivation to do so. The FDA isn't interested in good science or
> protecting the public. It's only interested in boosting Big Pharma's
> profits using whatever methods of collusion, corruption and scientific
> fraud it can get away with.
>
> I say that if the FDA refuses to retract the approvals of drugs based
> on ghostwritten studies, the FDA has zero remaining credibility and
> has abandoned anything resembling "evidence-based medicine." In other
> words, the FDA is a willing partner in this widespread campaign of
> scientific fraud, and even when the fraud is discovered, the FDA does
> nothing to attempt to reestablish scientific credibility. Real
> science, it seems, has zero priority at the FDA.
>
> The Pharmaceutical Racket
> So now we have Big Pharma, the FDA and the top medical journals all
> engaged in a massive conspiracy to deceive the public, to win approval
> for dangerous drugs, and to prop up the pharmaceutical industry with
> fabricated evidence on drug safety that was actually written by Big
> Pharma's in-house marketing writers. This is clearly a grand
> pharmaceutical racket, operated much like a system of organized crime.
> Except these criminals, it seems, have not yet been arrested and
> charged with any crimes. (That day is coming, however...)
>
> Now I ask you this: How stupid are doctors if they still believe in
> all this fabricated evidence? Because I've met a lot of M.D.s who
> believe so strongly in the "evidence" behind pharmaceuticals that
> they'll argue your ears off about the science of pharmaceuticals vs.
> the "wishful thinking" of nutritional supplements. It makes you wonder
> just how gullible doctors really are. (In truth, they're incredibly
> gullible. All it takes is a visit by a young, bubbly drug rep wearing
> a push-up bra to radically alter the brand-name drug prescribing
> habits of a typical M.D.)
>
> And how gullible are patients who believe Big Pharma or the FDA? To
> believe in this system of fraudulent "junk" science and manipulated
> clinical trials is downright foolish. And yet hundreds of millions of
> Americans take pharmaceuticals every single day -- drugs that make
> them no healthier and that, in fact, may harm them or kill them.
>
> Folks, it is time for the United States of America to wake up and
> realize we've all been conned by Big Pharma. We've been hoodwinked by
> a band of clever hucksters s****ting academic degrees and
> authoritative-sounding titles. We've been had. Let us now end this
> foolishness by retracting all published studies based on fraudulent
> ghostwriting, retracting all FDA-approved drugs based on these
> fraudulent studies, and prosecuting the top pharmaceutical companies
> for the widespread fraud they have so cleverly designed and unleashed
> in pursuit of the almighty dollar. It is time to invoke established
> federal anti-trust laws and go after these companies, putting them out
> of business once and for all and thereby saving countless American
> children, adults and senior citizens from death by dangerous
> pharmaceuticals.
> Response from Health Lover, Ilena Rosenthal:
> www.ilenarose.blogspot.com
> www.ilena-rosenthal.blogspot.com
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