Posted on 2 October, 2011
Conflict of interest blocks out real scientific integrity in cancer research. A study published June 15th 2009 in the journal Cancer has highlighted what is essentially corruption in the science of cancer research. It's called "conflict of interest": but you and I would call it corruption, bribery or malicious threats. Not nice words for a not nice phenomenon, which I've known about for years. Well, at least the industry is beginning to talk about it. What it amounts to is that cancer researchers are likely to "find" (or invent) favorable outcomes for research which is paid for by the major drug cartels. Many doctors engaged in research are on stipends from the very company which produces the product they are supposedly "testing". Some take secret bribes, of course, but then so do politicians! Some investigators at major hospitals and medical schools have their salary paid, indirectly, via drug company funding to their hospital or laboratory post. Who has the guts to rock the boat when it pays the mortgage? Ridiculous idea, you say; responsible drug companies would never threaten the jobs of honest researchers. Well, if you are nave enough to think that, wise up. Not only do drug companies threaten to get uncooperative (ie. honest and objective) scientists removed from their post-they actually do it. This new up-to-date study puts some figures to the extent to which drug cartels bias what they laughingly call "research". As I am fond of saying, it's not research, but marketing strategies disguised as research. The analysis, to be published in the June 15 issue of Cancer and headed by the University of Michigan, looked at more than 1,500 supposedly-scientific cancer studies published in eight authoritative journals, including Cancer, the New England Journal of Medicine and the Lancet. Here's what they found: Any guesses why the drug industry would slew research away from disease prevention? I'll bet you know. |
Related Post:
Widget by [ Iptek-4u ]
