Don’t drink the Koolaid! Governmental health agencies and medical journals are not free to follow the science when they are controlled by big pharma. Dr Marcia Angell, who spent twenty years working at the New England Journal of Medicine, the last as editor in chief, said “It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor there.” To put it bluntly, the whole public health system has been corrupted by big pharmaceutical companies whose ultimate aim is profit, not health.
What do we say to the children in the placebo cohort as they lay dying? Sorry, kid. You lost the lottery.
Don’t drink the Koolaid! Governmental health agencies and medical journals are not free to follow the science when they are controlled by big pharma. Dr Marcia Angell, who spent twenty years working at the New England Journal of Medicine, the last as editor in chief, said “It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor there.” To put it bluntly, the whole public health system has been corrupted by big pharmaceutical companies whose ultimate aim is profit, not health.
Excellent article and perspective. Great work!