Off topic – FDA buried evidence of fraud in 78 of 600 clinical trials

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 VitaminDWiki

• Extremely Big Pharma - many studies

• FDA - many studies 49 pages as of Nov 2024

• FDA drug to TREAT child Type 2 diabetes (based on 1 trial of only 50) – June 2023

• FDA hired a person to study flu vaccine effectiveness, found problems, was fired

• New FDA head chosen because he had the fewest ties to big Pharma - Nov 2021

• FDA drug section gets 75% of its income from Big Pharma - Oct 2022

• FDA approved 5-11 vaccine booster (based tiny unpublished study without asking advisory panel) May 2022

• 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