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- FDA approved 5-11 vaccine booster (based tiny unpublished study without asking advisory panel) May 2022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