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"Even good science needs a little magic," said one ad placed in 2002 in Med Ad News, an industry magazine, by ApotheCom, one of IntraMed's competitors. The services offered by these ad firms were part of a side of medical science that most people did not understand. It was not just independent scientists working to expand knowledge who were writing the articles published by medical journals. Often there was something else altogether going on. Salespeople at Novartis had asked two academic scientists, John S. Markowitz and Kennerly S." - 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.)

"In this commercial context, the age-old standards of good science are being quietly but radically weakened, and in some cases abandoned. Here's how it works THE MEDICAL INDUSTRY STARTS TO CALL THE SHOTS Prior to 1970, medical researchers had relatively little problem obtaining funding from the National Institutes of Health, and few medical studies were sponsored solely by drug companies. An article published in the journal Science in 1982 describes medical scientists thumbing "their academic noses at industrial money" in the 1970s." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "Second, is commercially sponsored research "disinterested," or neutral, enough to stand as good science? There is mounting evidence that it is not. One would have expected that, after the editors' extraordinary warning of the mounting threat to the integrity of clinical research, scientific business would not just go on as usual; that this public airing of concern about the health of our medical science would have created a stir in the media and alerted doctors across the country to the commercial bias in their most trusted source of medical knowledge." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"The doctors writing many of those prescriptions appeared to have been swayed by marketing, she said, and not by good science. By the time of Dr. Mack's review, Parke-Davis had finally published the results of a clinical trial in which its scientists gave Neurontin to patients with bipolar disorder. Franklin had detailed in his lawsuit how he had been trained to tell physicians that preliminary results from this trial were indicating that Neurontin helped 90 percent of patients suffering bipolar disorder." - 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.)

"Still, throughout what was an orthodox training in psychiatry, she'd never forgotten her father's lessons: received wisdom was the enemy of good science. As a student she would seek out dusty psychiatric writings of the nineteenth century, before the advent of modern psychopharmacology, when psychiatrists lived in sanatoriums, writing down the rantings of their patients in an attempt to gain further understanding of their conditions. Somewhere in the raw data, Targ believed, separated out from the dogma of the times, lay the truth." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"That hygiene ultimately won the day had as much to do with the needs of the dental profession as it did with good science; the problem of personal hygiene was easier, and THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM «l far more profitable, to address than that of the diet and entire food system.) In the 1930s, Price closed down his dental practice so he could devote all his energies to solving the mystery of the Western diet. He went looking for what he called control groups— isolated populations that had not yet been exposed to modern foods." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"It also required the companies once again to focus on good science. Under the new law, the companies were required to perform careful clinical trials that proved not only that a medicine was safe but that it was effective for its intended use. At the same time, doctors and scientists performing the trials had to show they were qualified to do the work. The companies could no longer distribute samples of an unapproved drug to doctors for experimental purposes as Merrell had done with thalidomide." - 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.) "The companies that were hurt by the new requirements were those that had not spent money for good science in the first place. They were the molecule manipulators that had made money by copying their competitors' medicines. Later some executives at the big drug companies agreed that the additional scientific requirements had benefited the industry. In a paper presented at an industry conference sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute in 1974, Harold A." - 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.)

"This is the way that good science works. Indeed, according to a 2005 article in JAMA, about a third of all "highly cited" papers published in "high impact journals" cannot be replicated. In other words, their findings do not become part of standard knowledge. We should not be too disturbed by this finding, but rather, according to the paper's author, "we all need to start thinking more critically."30 In using published research, we understand that not all research reports have an equivalent impact on the profession. Most studies are ignored by the scientific community." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"There were two possible implications to what he was telling them: Either the physicians and residents at the medical school were not using good science to decide whether or not to operate—which they weren't, of course, since there wasn't much good evidence to justify the surgery—or they were performing unnecessary operations in order to train young obstetrics residents. By then, Wennberg had worn out his welcome at the university." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "Doctors wanted to give higher doses, and there was good science behind their reasoning. "Chemotherapy shows what's known as a dose-dependent curve," says Henderson. "The higher the dose, the more cancer cells are killed." But the higher the dose, the greater the toxicity to normal cells and the more deadly the side effects. The doctors believed that breast tumors resisted being cured by chemo because doctors simply could not give their patients high-enough doses without causing them serious harm." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "But even that number isn't based on very good science, and many patients wind up going back to their surgeons. A study of workers injured on the job in the state of Washington who underwent fusion for degenerative disk disease found that 22 percent were still in pain and had opted for more surgery. Surgeons themselves reported that many of their patients remained in chronic pain even after multiple fusions. If they don't know which patients are most likely to benefit, or if it even works at all, why do surgeons continue performing fusions?" - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "Lake Wobegon science When doctors are in medical school, they're taught that good medicine is based on good science, and that the place to find the best medical science is in the top medical journals. Each year, tens of thousands of articles are published in hundreds of medical journals, only a few dozen of which rank in the top tier, the must-read category. Publishing in them is highly competitive, and each article must be peer-reviewed, or vetted by experts for accuracy and credibility." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Is this good science or nutritionist prejudice? The epidemiologist John Powles has suggested this predilection is little more than a Puritan bias: Bad things happen to people who eat bad things. But what people don't eat may matter as much as what they do. This fact could explain why populations that eat diets containing lots of animal food generally have higher rates of coronary heart disease and cancer than those that don't." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"It is if you don't believe in good science. Because drug companies seem to have conveniently forgotten what good science means anymore. Today, it's not about discovering some new scientific truth, it's about distorting science to sell more products. To call it junk science is an understatement. Big Pharma's trespasses into scientific fraud go way beyond mere junk science. The fraudulent trials, hiding of evidence, cherry-picking of studies, and intimidating critics all point to a policy of succeeding in the marketplace at all costs while invoking "science" as a convenient defense." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"But even that number isn't based on very good science, and many patients wind up going back to their surgeons. A study of workers injured on the job in the state of Washington who underwent fusion for degenerative disk disease found that 22 percent were still in pain and had opted for more surgery. Surgeons themselves reported that many of their patients remained in chronic pain even after multiple fusions. If they don't know which patients are most likely to benefit, or if it even works at all, why do surgeons continue performing fusions?" - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Baughman's August 2005 letter to Sharfstein is representative of good science and reads (in part): "/ have discovered and described real diseases. Such discoveries are the subject of the first, single, original case report of this disease/ syndrome/abnormality or that I have discovered, described and enlarged upon existing descriptions of other real diseases as well, but this is sufficient to make the point that for every real disease, there is just one, original case report." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.)

"Each study also contains uncertainties, often expressed in quantitative terms - such is the nature of good science - and carefully weighed, thoughtful statements by the authors which cannot always be accurately reflected in a broad-brush, generalist approach such as this. I leave readers with queries about any of the information presented to follow up references and judge the original work for themselves. Do not complain to me either if you have doubts about the methodologies employed by the original studies: I am not a climatologist, I am merely the interpreter." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"The facts and the speculation in the article that are grounded in some good science have for a long time been well known by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The exaggerations (e.g." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.)

"And in the Fox TV show Scarborough Country, it was stated that there is no "good science." In politics, science always gets diluted. This diluted science is done specifically at the behest of the major political contributors who do not want the truth to be known for fear that it would have an adverse effect on their profitability." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"Lake Wobegon science When doctors are in medical school, they're taught that good medicine is based on good science, and that the place to find the best medical science is in the top medical journals. Each year, tens of thousands of articles are published in hundreds of medical journals, only a few dozen of which rank in the top tier, the must-read category. Publishing in them is highly competitive, and each article must be peer-reviewed, or vetted by experts for accuracy and credibility." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "Doctors wanted to give higher doses, and there was good science behind their reasoning. "Chemotherapy shows what's known as a dose-dependent curve," says Henderson. "The higher the dose, the more cancer cells are killed." But the higher the dose, the greater the toxicity to normal cells and the more deadly the side effects. The doctors believed that breast tumors resisted being cured by chemo because doctors simply could not give their patients high-enough doses without causing them serious harm." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"The MSC guidelines call for accountability through reliable and independent auditing and the establishment of transparent standards based on good science. If the fish on our dinner table has been certified by the MSC, we can be sure that we're supporting good work toward the restoration of the ocean's wealth. eg Seafood Watch ¦Ml Seafood Watch, a program launched by the Monterey Bay Aquarium, has created a concise, informative list to help fish lovers keep track of which species we can grill free of cares, and which are ecological no-no's." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Because drug companies seem to have conveniently forgotten what good science means anymore. Today, it's not about discovering some new scientific truth, it's about distorting science to sell more products. To call it junk science is an understatement. Big Pharma's trespasses into scientific fraud go way beyond mere junk science. The fraudulent trials, hiding of evidence, cherry-picking of studies, and intimidating critics all point to a policy of succeeding in the marketplace at all costs while invoking "science" as a convenient defense." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.) "Ephedra, for example, was banned by the FDA based on a political agenda, not good science. Not since World War II have so many Americans died from a single, common preventable cause. It appears the FDA has declared war on the American people. '** Conducted armed raids on alternative medicine clinics, confiscating computers, threatening alternative health practitioners, and scaring away patients. Ordered the destruction of recipe books promoting stevia, a natural sweetener that competes with sales of aspartame (yes, the FDA actually ordered the books to be destroyed)." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"So, I think those who dismiss these concerns out of hand are themselves not using good science and certainly are not using common sense. Mercury and Alzheimer's Disease Autopsy studies of Alzheimer's patients have consistently demonstrated elevated mercury levels in the affected areas of the brain.85 Likewise, there is a direct correlation between brain levels of mercury and the number of amalgam fillings." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.) "Now you might conclude from the wording that the ADA has a legitimate point, since an unscrupulous dentist could frighten his patients into paying for a very expensive procedure, whether or not it was based on good science. The real problem is that the ADA leadership knew that medical doctors were generally unaware of the issue of amalgam toxicity, and so would not be inclined to send their patients to a dentist for removal of amalgam fillings. This keeps the issue "in house." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"Not only have regulators been negligent in following the progression of the science, they have failed to demand adherence to even basic principles of good science and regulation. Public Health Regarding Australia New Zealand Food Authority (ANZFA): "Its methodological and Association of Australia statistical reporting of animal experimentation is now much worse than it even was before. Now, it is routine for ANZFA to give no actual data from these experiments, but to just assert that no differences were found." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.) "The burden is on the industry to demonstrate that each adverse finding and each theoretical risk is responded to with good science, appropriate investigation, and evidence verifying safety. Until then, wise nations and wise families should opt-out of this high-stakes gamble by refusing GM foods. Industry may avoid scientific debates In the past, the biotech industry has studiously avoided debating the health risks of their foods. That is because their claims of safety do not hold up well under scrutiny." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.)

"Surprisingly, there is now good science to support the value of vinegar. Researchers in Sweden report that when vinegar is given with white bread, it reduces blood sugar and insulin levels.239 It also helps people feel fuller up to 2 hours later. Japanese researchers have found that vinegar can counteract the effect of white rice on blood sugar.240 And investigators at Arizona State University report that 2 tablespoons of vinegar or a handful of peanuts before a starchy meal can significantly dampen the resulting rise in blood glucose." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.)

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