Are Your Medications Safe? SLATE Feb 2014
The FDA buries evidence of fraud in medical trials. My students and I dug it up (Subtitle)
- “When the FDA finds scientific fraud or misconduct, the agency doesn’t notify the public, the medical establishment, or even the scientific community that the results of a medical experiment are not to be trusted”
- ‘The FDA has repeatedly hidden evidence of scientific fraud not just from the public, but also from its most trusted scientific advisers, even as they were deciding whether or not a new drug should be allowed on the market. “
- “Even a congressional panel investigating a case of fraud regarding a dangerous drug couldn't get forthright answers”
See also Vitamin D Life
- Extremely Big Pharma
- Off Topic: FDA advisors have many conflicts of interest = one of the reasons to hide the information
- Far too expensive to have FDA approve vitamin D – Dec 2013
78 trials found so far out of 600 candidates