Fraudulent And Exaggerated Claims By Prescription Drug Companies
Dear Friend,
Something came across my desk today that felt like Deja Vu.
One of my friends and customers from Los Angeles sent me an article about an
article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association which
suggested fraudulent or at least exaggerated positive claims for prescription
drugs.
You may remember a few months ago I referred an article published in the
prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. In this article it was revealed
that if a drug company sponsored a clinical trial of its drug there was a
whopping 90% chance that it would come out favorably. If they did not sponsor
the trial and it was done independently positive results happened often less than
50% of the time.
The new Journal of the American Medical Association article showed that the same
thing happens over in Britain! In this case the numbers were a little better.
80% backed by drug companies were positive, 50% positive if they were not backed
by drug companies.
Now let's look at some particulars. As a real Doctor who sees and cares for real
live patients I can tell you that most of us "hands on" docs are bombarded
everyday with drug company propaganda. As a matter of fact, most of our
'education" is provided by drug companies!
If you don't read independent literature, and read critically, you are in my
opinion being brainwashed by Big Pharmacy. Most doctors are just that,
brainwashed by Big Pharmacy.
Now, why would things be at least a little better in Britain. Maybe it's because
they are less likely to play into the hands of the drug companies because they
have socialized medicine and have less to gain from it.
Maybe they are taking their Fish Oil and thinking a little more clearly than us!
Either way, when contacted by the authors of this article and confronted with the
evidence, 90% of the research teams denied they hadn't reported everything the
way they should have.
On either side of the pond the bottom line is: over half of the trials and their
outcomes were not honest!!!!
And what is it that traditional medicine bases its approach on? You guessed it
these very same trials.
So, a Full Half of what is taught to doctors is TOTAL BULL!
Now I know why so many things I was taught in Medical School turned out not to
be true!
Now some of you who are more critical and more cynical would say,"OK Doc what
about yesterday's email? It was full of articles and references too! Were they
total bull?"
No my friends they are not, for several reasons.
The first and most important is that the people involved in researching
supplements stand to gain absolutely nothing from negative or positive trials
because no supplement company (except maybe EAS!) can afford to pay the
researcher one dime for a positive study!
We are not Pharmaceutical Giants with Earnings in excess of the National Debt.
No these studies are done by people who simply want to answer a question.
Want more proof? Numerous supplements both brand name and otherwise have fallen
on the trash heap of medical science when tested by independent (the only kind of
testing done of natural supplements ) researchers.
Among them, Vitamin E, Vitamin C, the CS-4 formulation of cordyceps (not all
cordyceps!), amino acids for muscle building, and Tribulus Terrestris for sexual
potency to name just a few.
So what is going to happen? NOTHING, absolutely nothing. It will be big
business as usual for the drug companies. I doubt anyone will mention this
elsewhere than here.
What should happen? An independent review board not salaried by any drug company
would help. Stiff penalties for lying ad covering up results that don't look good
would help too. But there is no National Governing body with any power to
enforce this.
Nope the FDA is busy banning supplements instead of investigating this fiasco
which should reshape the face of medicine!
Late in 2003 I wrote a newsletter titled "The Deceived and the Deluded". Most
doctors are deceived, not deluded. Most, if they ever saw this information would
pause to reevaluate their entire education the way I have.
I will continue to try to educate you and anyone else who will listen as to the
benefits of Natural supplements put here by Mother Nature to help us. I would
hope more doctors will eventually do the same.
Until then, its TOTAL BULL and business as usual.
Best,
Dave Woynarowski, M.D., CPT
The Nation's #1 Anti-Aging Physician
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