
Show 1299: Is Evidence-Based Medicine an Illusion?
The People's Pharmacy
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Drug Testing
mc henry: It's absolutely scandalous that the fda and the government allow the drug companies to test their own products. The most important recommendation we have is that testing be taken out of the hands of the pharmaceutical in so that there is more reliability in the results of the testing. We argue that once this recommendation would be put into place, a lot of the other problems would disappear. There would be no motivation for ghost writers to fraudulent misrepresent the results in the medical journals. And perhaps we hope, no more television advertisements.
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