Total Bull

Something came across my desk today that felt like Deja Vu.

One of my friends and customers from Los Angeles sent me an article about an article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which suggested fraudulent or at least exaggerated positive claims for prescription drugs.

You may remember a few months ago I referred to an article published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. In this article it was revealed that if a drug company sponsored a clinical trial of its drug, there was a whopping 90% chance that it would come out favorably. If they did not sponsor the trial and it was done independently, positive results happened often less than 50% of the time.

The new Journal of the American Medical Association article showed that the same thing happens over in Britain! In this case the numbers were a little better. 80% backed by drug companies were positive, 50% positive if they were not backed by drug companies.

Now let's look at some particulars. As a real Doctor who sees and cares for real live patients, I can tell you that most of us "hands on" docs are bombarded everyday with drug company propaganda. As a matter of fact, most of our “education” is provided by drug companies!

If you don't read independent literature, and read critically, you are in my opinion being brainwashed by Big Pharmacy. Most doctors are just that, brainwashed by Big Pharmacy.

Now, why would things be at least a little better in Britain? Maybe it's because they are less likely to play into the hands of the drug companies because they have socialized medicine and have less to gain from it.

Maybe they are taking their Fish Oil and thinking a little more clearly than us!

Either way, when contacted by the authors of this article and confronted with the evidence 90% of the research teams denied they hadn't reported everything the way they should have.

On either side of the pond the bottom line is: over half of the trials and their outcomes were not honest!!!!

And what is it that traditional medicine bases its approach on? You guessed it; these very same trials.

So, a Full Half of what is taught to doctors is TOTAL BULL!

Now I know why so many things I was taught in Medical School turned out not to be true!

Doc