If you haven't read Dr. John Abramson's new book, Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It, I highly recommend doing so....ASAP. https://www.amazon.com/Sickening-Pharma-American-Health-Repair/dp/1328957810
Abramson in his book details how since most research is commercially funded, the corporations mai…
Abramson in his book details how since most research is commercially funded, the corporations maintain control of all the data and spin it accordingly. Not even peer reviewers have access to the data. So peer review is just a review of the corporate spin. Most drug development is based on what will generate the highest profits, especially with new drugs that aren't any better than the old (going off patent) drugs being replaced. A lot of published research thus isn't really reviewed and is nothing more than a marketing tool that's being passed off as evidence based medicine. The journals make a lot of their revenues from selling reprints of articles purchased by the corporations developing the drugs. Lancet for example made 41% of its revenues from resale of reprints. So "evidence based medicine" is just a marketing racket for pharma, and many of the scientific journals.
Abramson gives a lot of examples...though he takes a hands off approach to vaccines and covid vaccines in particular....I assume more so that he didn't want to be labeled an anti-vaxxer more than anything else.
Yes, I've read RFK's book but it's not as specific or detailed on this topic. Plus Abramson hasn't been marginalized like Bobby since Abramson is a medical doctor and professor at Harvard....plus has been an expert witness on many high profile pharma fraud court cases. Here's a really good interview with Abramson: https://youtu.be/e-4zthajoOc Abramson was also on Rogan's podcast, but that interview wasn't as good as the one I just shared.
If you haven't read Dr. John Abramson's new book, Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It, I highly recommend doing so....ASAP. https://www.amazon.com/Sickening-Pharma-American-Health-Repair/dp/1328957810
Abramson in his book details how since most research is commercially funded, the corporations maintain control of all the data and spin it accordingly. Not even peer reviewers have access to the data. So peer review is just a review of the corporate spin. Most drug development is based on what will generate the highest profits, especially with new drugs that aren't any better than the old (going off patent) drugs being replaced. A lot of published research thus isn't really reviewed and is nothing more than a marketing tool that's being passed off as evidence based medicine. The journals make a lot of their revenues from selling reprints of articles purchased by the corporations developing the drugs. Lancet for example made 41% of its revenues from resale of reprints. So "evidence based medicine" is just a marketing racket for pharma, and many of the scientific journals.
Abramson gives a lot of examples...though he takes a hands off approach to vaccines and covid vaccines in particular....I assume more so that he didn't want to be labeled an anti-vaxxer more than anything else.
Thanks. RFK's book "The Real Anthony Fauci" is quite good on the subject of pharma take over too.
Yes, I've read RFK's book but it's not as specific or detailed on this topic. Plus Abramson hasn't been marginalized like Bobby since Abramson is a medical doctor and professor at Harvard....plus has been an expert witness on many high profile pharma fraud court cases. Here's a really good interview with Abramson: https://youtu.be/e-4zthajoOc Abramson was also on Rogan's podcast, but that interview wasn't as good as the one I just shared.