How Peer Reviewed Study ‘Science’ Is Used To Deceive The Public
Scientific Bullshit — How ‘Science’ Is Used To Deceive The Public
Did you know that there was a shocking study published in the Public Library of Science Journal, that found“up to 72%” of scientists admitted their colleagues were engaged in “questionable research practices,” and that just over 14% of them were engaged in outright “falsification”?[1]
If that’s not bad enough, between 1977 and 1990 the FDA found scientific flaws in 10–20% of all the studies they audited.[2]
But it gets even worse; scientists at the Thousand Oaks biotech firm Amgen, set out to double-check the results of 53 landmark published studies in their fields of cancer research and blood biology. What they found was shocking; only 6 of the 53 studies could be proven valid. That means almost 90% were flawed, yet passed off to the public as fact. [3]
In other words, there’s a lot of scientific bullshit floating around my friends.
This becomes especially concerning when we consider how “science” seems to have replaced organized religion as the new authority that should blindly be obeyed in many ways. People speak of it as if it is infallible, and anyone who questions the high priests of science are generally attacked, degraded, and dismissed as modern day heretics.
But science, just like any religion, is not a god that only speaks unadulterated Truth. It is far from being infallible and is constantly in need of being updated, upgraded, challenged, revised, and changed, for the simple fact that science is subject to the narrow confines of mankind’s tiny flawed human perception; which is forever growing and expanding — and easily skewed by things like prejudice, pride, and corruption.
In and of itself, science is obviously inanimate and can do neither good nor bad because it has no mind of its own. It is not a person, so we need to stop talking about science like it is a super hero. It is simply a vehicle that requires a driver, and the destination obviously differs from one driver to the next.
Read more:
https://anewkindofhuman.com/science-is-used-to-deceive-the-public/
THE MANIPULATION OF SCIENCE STILL CONTINUES TODAY
In more recent history, the Bush Administration got caught manipulating science to conform to their agenda. Big oil has likewise bribed scientists to parrot their narrative. Similarly, biotech giant Monsanto and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have also been caught engaging in this unethical practice together. This is not the first time Monsanto has been caught acting in this manner either. In Canada, a group of scientists testified that the GMO giant offered them a bribe of $1-2 million, and in Indonesia they were fined for engaging in bribery of a government official as well. Another biotech giant, Syngenta, hired scientists to discredit professor Tyrone Hayes, who conducted research that found out their herbicide Atrazine posed health risks to the population. Merck was taken to court by two scientists that claimed the Big Pharma giant manipulated tests concerning their mumps vaccine’s efficacy.
Coca Cola was also caught paying scientists (to the tune of $132.8 million) to downplay the severity of consuming their sugary drinks, and other unhealthy products. In fact, corporations do this all the time. A perfect example, is a study conducted by the University of Colorado that claimed that diet soda was better at promoting healthy weight loss than water. Unsurprisingly, this study was funded by the soda industry.
Read more:
https://anewkindofhuman.com/science-is-used-to-deceive-the-public/
Science is BROKEN, and the peer-review process produces “utter bulls##t” parading around as real science
https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-02-19-science-is-broken-and-the-peer-review-process-produces-utter-bullst-parading-around-as-real-science.html
NEJM editor: “No longer possible to believe much of clinical research published”
Harvard Medical School’s Dr. Marcia Angell is the author of The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It. But more to the point, she’s also the former Editor-in-Chief at the New England Journal of Medicine, arguably one of the most respected medical journals on earth. But after reading her article in the New York Review of Books called Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption, one wonders if any medical journal on earth is worth anybody’s respect anymore.
“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 of The New England Journal of Medicine.”
Read more:
https://ethicalnag.org/2009/11/09/nejm-editor/
Former NEJM editors on the corruption of American medicine (NY Times)
https://participatorymedicine.org/epatients/2012/03/former-nejm-editors-on-the-corruption-of-american-medicine-ny-times.html
Science for Sale : How the US Government Uses Powerful Corporations and Leading Universities to Support Government Policies, Silence Top Scientists, Jeopardize Our Health, and Protect Corporate Profits
https://www.bookdepository.com/Science-for-Sale-David-L-Lewis/9781626360716
Why Most Medical Research Cannot be Trusted
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/02/14/big-pharma-tricks.aspx#!
Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption
Marcia Angell (NEJM editor)
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2009/01/15/drug-companies-doctorsa-story-of-corruption/
Marcia Angell
Marcia Angell (/ˈeɪndʒəl/; born April 20, 1939) is an American physician, author, and the first woman to serve as editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.[1][2]
Read more:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcia_Angell
Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs Hardcover – March 18, 2008
by Melody Petersen (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374228272?ie=UTF8&tag=thneyoreofbo-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0374228272
EDITOR IN CHIEF OF WORLD’S BEST KNOWN MEDICAL JOURNAL: HALF OF ALL THE LITERATURE IS FALSE
In the past few years more professionals have come forward to share a truth that, for many people, proves difficult to swallow. One such authority is Dr. Richard Horton, the current editor-in-chief of the Lancet – considered to be one of the most well respected peer-reviewed medical journals in the world.
Dr. Horton recently published a statement declaring that a lot of published research is in fact unreliable at best, if not completely false.
“The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness.” (source)
This is quite distrubing, given the fact that all of these studies (which are industry sponsored) are used to develop drugs/vaccines to supposedly help people, train medical staff, educate medical students and more.
Read more:
http://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/05/16/editor-in-chief-of-worlds-best-known-medical-journal-half-of-all-the-literature-is-false/
Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
Abstract
Summary
There is increasing concern that most current published research findings are false. The probability that a research claim is true may depend on study power and bias, the number of other studies on the same question, and, importantly, the ratio of true to no relationships among the relationships probed in each scientific field. In this framework, a research finding is less likely to be true when the studies conducted in a field are smaller; when effect sizes are smaller; when there is a greater number and lesser preselection of tested relationships; where there is greater flexibility in designs, definitions, outcomes, and analytical modes; when there is greater financial and other interest and prejudice; and when more teams are involved in a scientific field in chase of statistical significance. Simulations show that for most study designs and settings, it is more likely for a research claim to be false than true. Moreover, for many current scientific fields, claimed research findings may often be simply accurate measures of the prevailing bias. In this essay, I discuss the implications of these problems for the conduct and interpretation of research.
http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124
FLAWED MEDICAL RESEARCH MAY BE RUINING YOUR HEALTH & YOUR LIFE (IMPORTANT!)
The Case Against Medical Research
Medical research is fraught with incompetence, careerism, and fraud. In the April 15, 2015 edition of Lancet, the UKs leading medical journal, editor-in-chief Richard Horton stated: “The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue.”
He ominously went on to say “…science has taken a turn toward darkness.”
As early as 1996, voices were being raised against the scandal of medical research. Douglas G. Altman, head of Medical Statistics Laboratory in the UK, asked the following question in the British Medical Journal (BMJ):
“What… should we think about researchers who use the wrong techniques (either willfully or in ignorance), use the right techniques wrongly, misinterpret their results, report their results selectively, cite the literature selectively, and draw unjustified conclusions?”
His answer:
“We should be appalled. Yet numerous studies of the medical literature… have shown that all of the above phenomena are common. This is surely a scandal.”
In 2005 Dr. John P.A. Ioannidis, currently a professor in disease prevention at Stanford University, published the most widely accessed article in the history of the Public Library of Science (PLoS) entitled Why Most Published Research Findings Are False. In the report, he stated:
“Therbad science 3e is increasing concern that most current published research findings are false.”
And that “…in modern research, false findings may be the majority or even the vast majority of published research claims.”
Ioannidis’ research model indicated that up to 80 percent of non-randomized research studies (the most common kind of study) are wrong, along with twenty-five percent of randomized trials (the supposed gold standard of research). Incredulously, these studies are published in top peer reviewed medical journals.
These numbers indicate that much of what our physicians prescribe to us is wrong. Our doctors use research to inform their medical decisions – decisions like what drug to prescribe, what surgery to elect, and what health strategy to adopt. They are making crucial treatment decisions for depression, Alzheimer’s, type 2 Diabetes, cancer, obesity, etc. based on bad, incomplete or hidden medical research. Remember Vioxx, Hormone Replacement Therapy, anti-arrhythmia drugs, high carbohydrate diets? The lives of hundreds of thousands of people were damaged or ended prematurely.
What’s Wrong with Medical Research?
There are serious deficiencies in medical research that have an onerous impact on our well-being.
Research Bias – Ioannidis defines bias as “the combination of various design, data, analysis, and presentation factors that tend to produce research findings when they should not be produced.” Many researchers enter their study with a specific finding in mind and, not surprisingly, they find it.
Journalist David H. Freedman in Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science quotes Ioannidis:
“At every step in the process, there is room to distort results, a way to make a stronger claim or to select what is going to be concluded,” and there is an “intellectual conflict of interest that pressures researchers to find whatever it is that is most likely to get them funded.”
Bias can happen in numerous ways, such as how the research is designed, how the samples are selected, and how subjects are pressured, or though errors in data collection and measurement or publication bias. All of this leads to erroneous results and potentially disastrous medical advice.
Publication Bias – various industries, governments, and regulatory agencies may severely distort the truth by omission. Nearly half of all research studies never see the light of day. According to Live Science:
“Oftentimes, medical journals or pharmaceutical companies that sponsor research will report only “positive” results, leaving out the non-findings or negative findings where a new drug or procedure may have proved more harmful than helpful.” In other words, the truth is hidden.
An example of this occurred with nearly 100,000 people dying from taking “safe” prescription anti-arrhythmic drugs in the 1980s. Or more recently, when none of the negative studies of the anti-depressant reboxitene were published.
This leaves us and our doctors in the dark about the efficacy and safety of drugs and medical procedures. We are systematically being misled!
See Dr. Ben Goldacre’s Ted Talk to learn more.
Conflicts of Interest – many studies, especially drug studies, “…have the added corruptive force of financial conflict of interest.” The more embedded the financial and other interests in the outcome of a study, the more likely the findings are going to be false. Ioannidis’ own research found that conflicts of interest “are common in biomedical research and typically they are inadequately and sparsely reported.”
Conflicts of interest are not limited to financial matters:
“Many otherwise seemingly independent, university-based studies may be conducted for no other reason than to give physicians and researchers qualifications for promotion or tenure.”
Research findings can be distorted by: small sample size, poor choice of methodology, and erroneous statistical analysis, all of which are widespread in medical research.
What Can We Do to Protect Ourselves?
Read more:
http://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/05/06/flawed-medical-research-may-be-ruining-your-health-your-life-important/
Scientific Misconduct Should Be a Crime. (Here in their biased and lying hypocrisy they attack Dr Andrew Wakefield in the claim and as if to say that this is an example of the only scientific fraud existing. Wakefiedl was NEVER a fraud and nor was his preliminary study on the MMR vaccine. Below you will find nearly 100 studies that support and as well replicate the findings in that 1998 now retracted Lancet paper. and all while their own scientific and paid off epidemiological studies continue to rule as the science being settled).
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/new_scientist/2014/09/scientific_misconduct_should_be_a_crime_it_s_like_fraud_or_theft_only_more.html
Research Study References
http://www.callous-disregard.com/research.htm
It’s as bad as fraud or theft, only potentially more dangerous.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/new_scientist/2014/09/scientific_misconduct_should_be_a_crime_it_s_like_fraud_or_theft_only_more.html
Perspective
Peer-Review Fraud — Hacking the Scientific Publication Process
Charlotte J. Haug, M.D., Ph.D.
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1512330
Preventing scientific misconduct
Given the likely extent of scientific misconduct, new ideas for preventing it are welcome. However, more thought needs to be given to how to rank the elements of the “slippery slope between honest errors and intentional fraud” proposed by Magne Nylenna and Sigmund Simonsen (June 10, p 1882),1 at least as far as clinical research is concerned. If one assesses the sins they have ranked in terms of their potential for doing harm to patients, biased reporting of research surely has far more serious practical consequences than undeserved authorship and plagiarism.
Read more:
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(06)69151-4/abstract
This Is Why ‘Most Cancer Research Is Largely A Fraud,’ According To Scientists (and look at the cancer industry ads on this page, what should that tell you about their power and greed)?
https://www.davidwolfe.com/cancer-research-fraud-scientists/
107 cancer papers retracted due to peer review fraud
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/107-cancer-papers-retracted-due-to-peer-review-fraud/
Alternative Cancer Cures Exist and Have Been Suppressed - Kimberly Carter Gamble
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=25&v=aWRzikJ3iso
PLoS Med. 2010 Oct; 7(10): e1000355.
Published online 2010 Oct 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000355
PMCID: PMC2964337
Editors, Publishers, Impact Factors, and Reprint Income
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2964337/
Monsanto Weed Killer Deserves Deeper Scrutiny As Scientific Manipulation Revealed
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/monsanto-weed-killer-deserves-deeper-scrutiny-as-scientific_us_58cc5541e4b0e0d348b34348
Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science
It's the herbicide on our dinner plates, a chemical so pervasive it's in the air we breathe, our water, our soil, and even found increasingly in our own bodies. Known as Monsanto's Roundup by consumers, and as glyphosate by scientists, the world's most popular weed killer is used everywhere from backyard gardens to golf courses to millions of acres of farmland. For decades it's been touted as safe enough to drink, but a growing body of evidence indicates just the opposite, with research tying the chemical to cancers and a host of other health threats.
In Whitewash, veteran journalist Carey Gillam uncovers one of the most controversial stories in the history of food and agriculture, exposing new evidence of corporate influence. Gillam introduces listeners to farm families devastated by cancers which they believe are caused by the chemical, and to scientists whose reputations have been smeared for publishing research that contradicted business interests.
Listeners learn about the arm-twisting of regulators who signed off on the chemical, echoing company assurances of safety even as they permitted higher residues of the herbicide in food and skipped compliance tests. And, in startling detail, Gillam reveals secret industry communications that pull back the curtain on corporate efforts to manipulate public perception.
Whitewash is more than an expose about the hazards of one chemical or even the influence of one company. It's a story of power, politics, and the deadly consequences of putting corporate interests ahead of public safety.
https://www.amazon.com/Whitewash-Killer-Cancer-Corruption-Science/dp/B079K5TSDX
GMO Education
http://responsibletechnology.org/gmo-education/
http://responsibletechnology.org/
The Detrimental Effects of GMO Seed Crops and Grown Food
http://www.dirtybigpharmatruth.com/the-detrimental-effects-of-gmo-seed-crops-and-grown-food.html
Commentary: Should you put your trust in medical research?
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-medical-research-fraud-diet-chocolate-science-lancet-vaccination-perspec-0609-20150608-story.html
IT’S OFFICIAL: GLOBAL, COORDINATED HPV RESEARCH FRAUD INVOLVING CDC, WHO, GACVS & OTHERS
http://www.jeffereyjaxen.com/blog/its-official-global-coordinated-hpv-research-fraud-involving-cdc-who-gacvs-others
Danish girl falls sick after receiving HPV vaccine from doctors who lied, 'this vaccine has no side effects'
https://www.naturalnews.com/055271_HPV_vaccines_Danish_girl_side_effects.html
Is HPV Vaccine Safety an Illusion Maintained by Suppression of Science?
http://sanevax.org/hpv-vaccine-safety-an-illusion-maintained-by-suppression-of-science/
Holy Hormones Honey: Dr. Hanan Polansky – DNA Fragments in Gardasil Cause Disease
http://www.tlbtowncrier.com/2016/01/holy-hormones-honey-dr-hanan-polansky-dna-fragments-in-gardasil-cause-disease/
Phony peer review: The more we look, the more we find
https://www.statnews.com/2017/04/28/phony-peer-review/
Science’s Big Scandal: Even legitimate publishers are faking peer review
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/04/fake_peer_review_scientific_journals_publish_fraudulent_plagiarized_or_nonsense.html
Major publisher retracts 43 scientific papers amid wider fake peer-review scandal
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/03/27/fabricated-peer-reviews-prompt-scientific-journal-to-retract-43-papers-systematic-scheme-may-affect-other-journals
Predatory Publishing, Questionable Peer Review, and Fraudulent Conferences
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4315198/
FDA Lets Drugs That Were Approved Based on Fraudulent Research Stay on the Market
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fda-let-drugs-approved-on-fraudulent-research-stay-on-market/
Publishing: The peer-review scam
https://www.nature.com/news/publishing-the-peer-review-scam-1.16400
Study Finds ‘Disturbing Examples’ Of The FDA Failing To Disclose Scientific Fraud
https://thinkprogress.org/study-finds-disturbing-examples-of-the-fda-failing-to-disclose-scientific-fraud-df654dbf709c
Organised crime against the academic peer review system
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bcp.12992/full
Read more at:
https://www.google.com/search?q=peer+review+in+scientific+fraud&rlz=1C1CHHM_enUS751US751&oq=peer+review+in+scientific+fraud
https://www.google.com/search?q=peer+review+in+scientific+fraud&rlz=1C1CHHM_enUS751US751&oq=peer+review+in+scientific+fraud#q=peer+review+fraud+in+medication+approval
"More than a dozen" senior CDC scientists are charging the agency with nursing an atmosphere of pervasive research fraud."
https://www.ecowatch.com/cdc-corruption-robert-kennedy-jr-2096438139.html
These blockbuster drugs were approved for use even though the FDA had no idea what effect they have on the brain. Pfizer ponies up $2.3 BILLION for their deadly drug crimes and it's still a good day on Wall Street for them. Meanwhile, no one is ordered to serve time for the crime.
Neurontin and Lyrica are a Death Sentence for New Brain Synapces
http://fibromyalgiaresources.com/neurontin-lyrica-death-sentence-new-brain-synapses/
5 Facts about the FDA Vaccine Approval Process That Will Horrify You
Think the government is watching out for your family’s health? Think again. In this exclusive free report by award-winning journalist Jeremy R. Hammond, you’ll learn:
Why the perception of the government as an overseer of the pharmaceutical industry is wrong
The frightening reality about the studies the FDA relies on to assess vaccine safety
The shocking truth about how vaccine manufacturers conduct clinical trials
How pharmaceutical companies can get their products “fast tracked” through the FDA
Why the vaccine industry was threatened with bankruptcy and the Orwellian “social bargain” the government legislated to save it
Read more:
https://www.jeremyrhammond.com/lp/5-horrifying-facts-about-the-fda-vaccine-approval-process/
How the Public Is Being Misinformed About Vaccine Safety and Efficacy
https://www.jeremyrhammond.com/2017/09/02/how-the-public-is-being-misinformed-about-vaccine-safety-and-efficacy/
CDC Lies About the Risks of Vaccination of Preterm Infants
https://www.jeremyrhammond.com/2017/09/20/cdc-lies-about-the-risks-of-vaccination-of-preterm-infants/
This is what scientific fraud looks like. The result is that many people who definitely do have Lyme disease are nonetheless being omitted from the case definition for the disease, if they fail to show a particular genetic predisposition for arthritis and inflammation. How did a scientist (Allen Steere) cleverly end up leaving OspA and B out of the CDC's diagnostic standard for Lyme disease? He used a high-passage strain of borrelia that dropped the OspA and B plasmid. This has led to the torment, financial ruin, and premature deaths of many victims. Until this crime is prosecuted, the victimization continues.
To learn more, go to
http://www.actionlyme.org/STEERE_IN_EUROPE.htm
Scientific Bullshit — How ‘Science’ Is Used To Deceive The Public
Did you know that there was a shocking study published in the Public Library of Science Journal, that found“up to 72%” of scientists admitted their colleagues were engaged in “questionable research practices,” and that just over 14% of them were engaged in outright “falsification”?[1]
If that’s not bad enough, between 1977 and 1990 the FDA found scientific flaws in 10–20% of all the studies they audited.[2]
But it gets even worse; scientists at the Thousand Oaks biotech firm Amgen, set out to double-check the results of 53 landmark published studies in their fields of cancer research and blood biology. What they found was shocking; only 6 of the 53 studies could be proven valid. That means almost 90% were flawed, yet passed off to the public as fact. [3]
In other words, there’s a lot of scientific bullshit floating around my friends.
This becomes especially concerning when we consider how “science” seems to have replaced organized religion as the new authority that should blindly be obeyed in many ways. People speak of it as if it is infallible, and anyone who questions the high priests of science are generally attacked, degraded, and dismissed as modern day heretics.
But science, just like any religion, is not a god that only speaks unadulterated Truth. It is far from being infallible and is constantly in need of being updated, upgraded, challenged, revised, and changed, for the simple fact that science is subject to the narrow confines of mankind’s tiny flawed human perception; which is forever growing and expanding — and easily skewed by things like prejudice, pride, and corruption.
In and of itself, science is obviously inanimate and can do neither good nor bad because it has no mind of its own. It is not a person, so we need to stop talking about science like it is a super hero. It is simply a vehicle that requires a driver, and the destination obviously differs from one driver to the next.
Read more:
https://anewkindofhuman.com/science-is-used-to-deceive-the-public/
THE MANIPULATION OF SCIENCE STILL CONTINUES TODAY
In more recent history, the Bush Administration got caught manipulating science to conform to their agenda. Big oil has likewise bribed scientists to parrot their narrative. Similarly, biotech giant Monsanto and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have also been caught engaging in this unethical practice together. This is not the first time Monsanto has been caught acting in this manner either. In Canada, a group of scientists testified that the GMO giant offered them a bribe of $1-2 million, and in Indonesia they were fined for engaging in bribery of a government official as well. Another biotech giant, Syngenta, hired scientists to discredit professor Tyrone Hayes, who conducted research that found out their herbicide Atrazine posed health risks to the population. Merck was taken to court by two scientists that claimed the Big Pharma giant manipulated tests concerning their mumps vaccine’s efficacy.
Coca Cola was also caught paying scientists (to the tune of $132.8 million) to downplay the severity of consuming their sugary drinks, and other unhealthy products. In fact, corporations do this all the time. A perfect example, is a study conducted by the University of Colorado that claimed that diet soda was better at promoting healthy weight loss than water. Unsurprisingly, this study was funded by the soda industry.
Read more:
https://anewkindofhuman.com/science-is-used-to-deceive-the-public/
Science is BROKEN, and the peer-review process produces “utter bulls##t” parading around as real science
https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-02-19-science-is-broken-and-the-peer-review-process-produces-utter-bullst-parading-around-as-real-science.html
NEJM editor: “No longer possible to believe much of clinical research published”
Harvard Medical School’s Dr. Marcia Angell is the author of The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It. But more to the point, she’s also the former Editor-in-Chief at the New England Journal of Medicine, arguably one of the most respected medical journals on earth. But after reading her article in the New York Review of Books called Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption, one wonders if any medical journal on earth is worth anybody’s respect anymore.
“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 of The New England Journal of Medicine.”
Read more:
https://ethicalnag.org/2009/11/09/nejm-editor/
Former NEJM editors on the corruption of American medicine (NY Times)
https://participatorymedicine.org/epatients/2012/03/former-nejm-editors-on-the-corruption-of-american-medicine-ny-times.html
Science for Sale : How the US Government Uses Powerful Corporations and Leading Universities to Support Government Policies, Silence Top Scientists, Jeopardize Our Health, and Protect Corporate Profits
https://www.bookdepository.com/Science-for-Sale-David-L-Lewis/9781626360716
Why Most Medical Research Cannot be Trusted
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/02/14/big-pharma-tricks.aspx#!
Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption
Marcia Angell (NEJM editor)
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2009/01/15/drug-companies-doctorsa-story-of-corruption/
Marcia Angell
Marcia Angell (/ˈeɪndʒəl/; born April 20, 1939) is an American physician, author, and the first woman to serve as editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.[1][2]
Read more:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcia_Angell
Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs Hardcover – March 18, 2008
by Melody Petersen (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374228272?ie=UTF8&tag=thneyoreofbo-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0374228272
EDITOR IN CHIEF OF WORLD’S BEST KNOWN MEDICAL JOURNAL: HALF OF ALL THE LITERATURE IS FALSE
In the past few years more professionals have come forward to share a truth that, for many people, proves difficult to swallow. One such authority is Dr. Richard Horton, the current editor-in-chief of the Lancet – considered to be one of the most well respected peer-reviewed medical journals in the world.
Dr. Horton recently published a statement declaring that a lot of published research is in fact unreliable at best, if not completely false.
“The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness.” (source)
This is quite distrubing, given the fact that all of these studies (which are industry sponsored) are used to develop drugs/vaccines to supposedly help people, train medical staff, educate medical students and more.
Read more:
http://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/05/16/editor-in-chief-of-worlds-best-known-medical-journal-half-of-all-the-literature-is-false/
Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
Abstract
Summary
There is increasing concern that most current published research findings are false. The probability that a research claim is true may depend on study power and bias, the number of other studies on the same question, and, importantly, the ratio of true to no relationships among the relationships probed in each scientific field. In this framework, a research finding is less likely to be true when the studies conducted in a field are smaller; when effect sizes are smaller; when there is a greater number and lesser preselection of tested relationships; where there is greater flexibility in designs, definitions, outcomes, and analytical modes; when there is greater financial and other interest and prejudice; and when more teams are involved in a scientific field in chase of statistical significance. Simulations show that for most study designs and settings, it is more likely for a research claim to be false than true. Moreover, for many current scientific fields, claimed research findings may often be simply accurate measures of the prevailing bias. In this essay, I discuss the implications of these problems for the conduct and interpretation of research.
http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124
FLAWED MEDICAL RESEARCH MAY BE RUINING YOUR HEALTH & YOUR LIFE (IMPORTANT!)
The Case Against Medical Research
Medical research is fraught with incompetence, careerism, and fraud. In the April 15, 2015 edition of Lancet, the UKs leading medical journal, editor-in-chief Richard Horton stated: “The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue.”
He ominously went on to say “…science has taken a turn toward darkness.”
As early as 1996, voices were being raised against the scandal of medical research. Douglas G. Altman, head of Medical Statistics Laboratory in the UK, asked the following question in the British Medical Journal (BMJ):
“What… should we think about researchers who use the wrong techniques (either willfully or in ignorance), use the right techniques wrongly, misinterpret their results, report their results selectively, cite the literature selectively, and draw unjustified conclusions?”
His answer:
“We should be appalled. Yet numerous studies of the medical literature… have shown that all of the above phenomena are common. This is surely a scandal.”
In 2005 Dr. John P.A. Ioannidis, currently a professor in disease prevention at Stanford University, published the most widely accessed article in the history of the Public Library of Science (PLoS) entitled Why Most Published Research Findings Are False. In the report, he stated:
“Therbad science 3e is increasing concern that most current published research findings are false.”
And that “…in modern research, false findings may be the majority or even the vast majority of published research claims.”
Ioannidis’ research model indicated that up to 80 percent of non-randomized research studies (the most common kind of study) are wrong, along with twenty-five percent of randomized trials (the supposed gold standard of research). Incredulously, these studies are published in top peer reviewed medical journals.
These numbers indicate that much of what our physicians prescribe to us is wrong. Our doctors use research to inform their medical decisions – decisions like what drug to prescribe, what surgery to elect, and what health strategy to adopt. They are making crucial treatment decisions for depression, Alzheimer’s, type 2 Diabetes, cancer, obesity, etc. based on bad, incomplete or hidden medical research. Remember Vioxx, Hormone Replacement Therapy, anti-arrhythmia drugs, high carbohydrate diets? The lives of hundreds of thousands of people were damaged or ended prematurely.
What’s Wrong with Medical Research?
There are serious deficiencies in medical research that have an onerous impact on our well-being.
Research Bias – Ioannidis defines bias as “the combination of various design, data, analysis, and presentation factors that tend to produce research findings when they should not be produced.” Many researchers enter their study with a specific finding in mind and, not surprisingly, they find it.
Journalist David H. Freedman in Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science quotes Ioannidis:
“At every step in the process, there is room to distort results, a way to make a stronger claim or to select what is going to be concluded,” and there is an “intellectual conflict of interest that pressures researchers to find whatever it is that is most likely to get them funded.”
Bias can happen in numerous ways, such as how the research is designed, how the samples are selected, and how subjects are pressured, or though errors in data collection and measurement or publication bias. All of this leads to erroneous results and potentially disastrous medical advice.
Publication Bias – various industries, governments, and regulatory agencies may severely distort the truth by omission. Nearly half of all research studies never see the light of day. According to Live Science:
“Oftentimes, medical journals or pharmaceutical companies that sponsor research will report only “positive” results, leaving out the non-findings or negative findings where a new drug or procedure may have proved more harmful than helpful.” In other words, the truth is hidden.
An example of this occurred with nearly 100,000 people dying from taking “safe” prescription anti-arrhythmic drugs in the 1980s. Or more recently, when none of the negative studies of the anti-depressant reboxitene were published.
This leaves us and our doctors in the dark about the efficacy and safety of drugs and medical procedures. We are systematically being misled!
See Dr. Ben Goldacre’s Ted Talk to learn more.
Conflicts of Interest – many studies, especially drug studies, “…have the added corruptive force of financial conflict of interest.” The more embedded the financial and other interests in the outcome of a study, the more likely the findings are going to be false. Ioannidis’ own research found that conflicts of interest “are common in biomedical research and typically they are inadequately and sparsely reported.”
Conflicts of interest are not limited to financial matters:
“Many otherwise seemingly independent, university-based studies may be conducted for no other reason than to give physicians and researchers qualifications for promotion or tenure.”
Research findings can be distorted by: small sample size, poor choice of methodology, and erroneous statistical analysis, all of which are widespread in medical research.
What Can We Do to Protect Ourselves?
Read more:
http://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/05/06/flawed-medical-research-may-be-ruining-your-health-your-life-important/
Scientific Misconduct Should Be a Crime. (Here in their biased and lying hypocrisy they attack Dr Andrew Wakefield in the claim and as if to say that this is an example of the only scientific fraud existing. Wakefiedl was NEVER a fraud and nor was his preliminary study on the MMR vaccine. Below you will find nearly 100 studies that support and as well replicate the findings in that 1998 now retracted Lancet paper. and all while their own scientific and paid off epidemiological studies continue to rule as the science being settled).
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/new_scientist/2014/09/scientific_misconduct_should_be_a_crime_it_s_like_fraud_or_theft_only_more.html
Research Study References
http://www.callous-disregard.com/research.htm
It’s as bad as fraud or theft, only potentially more dangerous.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/new_scientist/2014/09/scientific_misconduct_should_be_a_crime_it_s_like_fraud_or_theft_only_more.html
Perspective
Peer-Review Fraud — Hacking the Scientific Publication Process
Charlotte J. Haug, M.D., Ph.D.
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1512330
Preventing scientific misconduct
Given the likely extent of scientific misconduct, new ideas for preventing it are welcome. However, more thought needs to be given to how to rank the elements of the “slippery slope between honest errors and intentional fraud” proposed by Magne Nylenna and Sigmund Simonsen (June 10, p 1882),1 at least as far as clinical research is concerned. If one assesses the sins they have ranked in terms of their potential for doing harm to patients, biased reporting of research surely has far more serious practical consequences than undeserved authorship and plagiarism.
Read more:
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(06)69151-4/abstract
This Is Why ‘Most Cancer Research Is Largely A Fraud,’ According To Scientists (and look at the cancer industry ads on this page, what should that tell you about their power and greed)?
https://www.davidwolfe.com/cancer-research-fraud-scientists/
107 cancer papers retracted due to peer review fraud
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/107-cancer-papers-retracted-due-to-peer-review-fraud/
Alternative Cancer Cures Exist and Have Been Suppressed - Kimberly Carter Gamble
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=25&v=aWRzikJ3iso
PLoS Med. 2010 Oct; 7(10): e1000355.
Published online 2010 Oct 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000355
PMCID: PMC2964337
Editors, Publishers, Impact Factors, and Reprint Income
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2964337/
Monsanto Weed Killer Deserves Deeper Scrutiny As Scientific Manipulation Revealed
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/monsanto-weed-killer-deserves-deeper-scrutiny-as-scientific_us_58cc5541e4b0e0d348b34348
Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science
It's the herbicide on our dinner plates, a chemical so pervasive it's in the air we breathe, our water, our soil, and even found increasingly in our own bodies. Known as Monsanto's Roundup by consumers, and as glyphosate by scientists, the world's most popular weed killer is used everywhere from backyard gardens to golf courses to millions of acres of farmland. For decades it's been touted as safe enough to drink, but a growing body of evidence indicates just the opposite, with research tying the chemical to cancers and a host of other health threats.
In Whitewash, veteran journalist Carey Gillam uncovers one of the most controversial stories in the history of food and agriculture, exposing new evidence of corporate influence. Gillam introduces listeners to farm families devastated by cancers which they believe are caused by the chemical, and to scientists whose reputations have been smeared for publishing research that contradicted business interests.
Listeners learn about the arm-twisting of regulators who signed off on the chemical, echoing company assurances of safety even as they permitted higher residues of the herbicide in food and skipped compliance tests. And, in startling detail, Gillam reveals secret industry communications that pull back the curtain on corporate efforts to manipulate public perception.
Whitewash is more than an expose about the hazards of one chemical or even the influence of one company. It's a story of power, politics, and the deadly consequences of putting corporate interests ahead of public safety.
https://www.amazon.com/Whitewash-Killer-Cancer-Corruption-Science/dp/B079K5TSDX
GMO Education
http://responsibletechnology.org/gmo-education/
http://responsibletechnology.org/
The Detrimental Effects of GMO Seed Crops and Grown Food
http://www.dirtybigpharmatruth.com/the-detrimental-effects-of-gmo-seed-crops-and-grown-food.html
Commentary: Should you put your trust in medical research?
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-medical-research-fraud-diet-chocolate-science-lancet-vaccination-perspec-0609-20150608-story.html
IT’S OFFICIAL: GLOBAL, COORDINATED HPV RESEARCH FRAUD INVOLVING CDC, WHO, GACVS & OTHERS
http://www.jeffereyjaxen.com/blog/its-official-global-coordinated-hpv-research-fraud-involving-cdc-who-gacvs-others
Danish girl falls sick after receiving HPV vaccine from doctors who lied, 'this vaccine has no side effects'
https://www.naturalnews.com/055271_HPV_vaccines_Danish_girl_side_effects.html
Is HPV Vaccine Safety an Illusion Maintained by Suppression of Science?
http://sanevax.org/hpv-vaccine-safety-an-illusion-maintained-by-suppression-of-science/
Holy Hormones Honey: Dr. Hanan Polansky – DNA Fragments in Gardasil Cause Disease
http://www.tlbtowncrier.com/2016/01/holy-hormones-honey-dr-hanan-polansky-dna-fragments-in-gardasil-cause-disease/
Phony peer review: The more we look, the more we find
https://www.statnews.com/2017/04/28/phony-peer-review/
Science’s Big Scandal: Even legitimate publishers are faking peer review
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/04/fake_peer_review_scientific_journals_publish_fraudulent_plagiarized_or_nonsense.html
Major publisher retracts 43 scientific papers amid wider fake peer-review scandal
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/03/27/fabricated-peer-reviews-prompt-scientific-journal-to-retract-43-papers-systematic-scheme-may-affect-other-journals
Predatory Publishing, Questionable Peer Review, and Fraudulent Conferences
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4315198/
FDA Lets Drugs That Were Approved Based on Fraudulent Research Stay on the Market
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fda-let-drugs-approved-on-fraudulent-research-stay-on-market/
Publishing: The peer-review scam
https://www.nature.com/news/publishing-the-peer-review-scam-1.16400
Study Finds ‘Disturbing Examples’ Of The FDA Failing To Disclose Scientific Fraud
https://thinkprogress.org/study-finds-disturbing-examples-of-the-fda-failing-to-disclose-scientific-fraud-df654dbf709c
Organised crime against the academic peer review system
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bcp.12992/full
Read more at:
https://www.google.com/search?q=peer+review+in+scientific+fraud&rlz=1C1CHHM_enUS751US751&oq=peer+review+in+scientific+fraud
https://www.google.com/search?q=peer+review+in+scientific+fraud&rlz=1C1CHHM_enUS751US751&oq=peer+review+in+scientific+fraud#q=peer+review+fraud+in+medication+approval
"More than a dozen" senior CDC scientists are charging the agency with nursing an atmosphere of pervasive research fraud."
https://www.ecowatch.com/cdc-corruption-robert-kennedy-jr-2096438139.html
These blockbuster drugs were approved for use even though the FDA had no idea what effect they have on the brain. Pfizer ponies up $2.3 BILLION for their deadly drug crimes and it's still a good day on Wall Street for them. Meanwhile, no one is ordered to serve time for the crime.
Neurontin and Lyrica are a Death Sentence for New Brain Synapces
http://fibromyalgiaresources.com/neurontin-lyrica-death-sentence-new-brain-synapses/
5 Facts about the FDA Vaccine Approval Process That Will Horrify You
Think the government is watching out for your family’s health? Think again. In this exclusive free report by award-winning journalist Jeremy R. Hammond, you’ll learn:
Why the perception of the government as an overseer of the pharmaceutical industry is wrong
The frightening reality about the studies the FDA relies on to assess vaccine safety
The shocking truth about how vaccine manufacturers conduct clinical trials
How pharmaceutical companies can get their products “fast tracked” through the FDA
Why the vaccine industry was threatened with bankruptcy and the Orwellian “social bargain” the government legislated to save it
Read more:
https://www.jeremyrhammond.com/lp/5-horrifying-facts-about-the-fda-vaccine-approval-process/
How the Public Is Being Misinformed About Vaccine Safety and Efficacy
https://www.jeremyrhammond.com/2017/09/02/how-the-public-is-being-misinformed-about-vaccine-safety-and-efficacy/
CDC Lies About the Risks of Vaccination of Preterm Infants
https://www.jeremyrhammond.com/2017/09/20/cdc-lies-about-the-risks-of-vaccination-of-preterm-infants/
This is what scientific fraud looks like. The result is that many people who definitely do have Lyme disease are nonetheless being omitted from the case definition for the disease, if they fail to show a particular genetic predisposition for arthritis and inflammation. How did a scientist (Allen Steere) cleverly end up leaving OspA and B out of the CDC's diagnostic standard for Lyme disease? He used a high-passage strain of borrelia that dropped the OspA and B plasmid. This has led to the torment, financial ruin, and premature deaths of many victims. Until this crime is prosecuted, the victimization continues.
To learn more, go to
http://www.actionlyme.org/STEERE_IN_EUROPE.htm
