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"There is increasing concern that in modern research, false findings may be the majority or even the vast majority of published research claims," he wrote in the journal plos medicine. "However, this should not be surprising. It can be proven that most claimed research findings are false." Executives at Novartis liked to say that Ritalin was the "most studied of any drug for children." Novartis had been selling Ritalin since 1955." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Ludwig, "Relationship Between Funding Source and Conclusion Among Nutrition-Related Scientific Articles," plos medicine, Vol. 4, No. 1, eS doi:10.1371/journal. pmed.0040005. Cocoa Puffs and Lucky Charms are screaming their newfound five a THE MELTING OF THE LIPID HYPOTHESIS JL \| for us? You might think that a national fixation on nutrients would lead to measurable improvements in public health. For that to happen, however, the underlying nutritional science and the policy recommendations (not to mention the journalism) based on that science would both have to be sound." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"Numerous articles may be identified in a Medline search (of the medical literature), but of particular interest are the British Medical Journal (2002) special issue devoted to medicalization and an issue of plos medicine (2006) largely devoted to "disease mon-gering." In 2003 the President's Council on Bioethics dedicated an entire session to examining medicalization (Kass et al., 2003). Less attention has been given to medicalization in the news, although the number of popular news references to medicalization has increased in the past couple of years." - Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.)

"The journal launched here in the fall of 2004, plos medicine, also has big aspirations, as it plans to "challenge the status quo" by providing free web access to all of its scientific articles. What's more, unlike virtually every other leading medical journal in the world today, this journal will not accept any drug company advertisements. Nor will it publish company-funded studies that are considered to be marketing dressed up as science. The aim, say its editors, is to break "the cycle of dependency" that has formed between medical journals and the pharmaceutical industry." - Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels, Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients (Get the book.)

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