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"Ross found the political clout of Sanofi-Aventis the deciding factor for FDA, far more important than scientific integrity: Aventis got its drug approved. In my opinion, Aventis knowingly threw garbage data at the FDA and FDA let them get away with it. Why did FDA not investigate whether Aventis systematically covered up the problems? .... FDA apparently decided that if it's some small company that can't defend itself, then go ahead and make an example out of them, but not if it's the third-largest pharmaceutical company in the world. You don't want to get Sanofi-Aventis mad at you." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.) "Referring to FDA's history of silencing scientific dissent, Francesca Grifo, senior scientist and director of the scientific integrity Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, stated: "Censoring scientists undermines our democracy and threatens public health. One stunning example: Vioxx. Fifty-five thousand Americans died because scientists at the Food and Drug Administration couldn't speak out." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.)

"Studies repeatedly document the bias in commercially sponsored research, but the medical journals seem powerless to control the scientific integrity of their own pages. In 2003, separate studies were published in JAMA and the British Medical Journal showing that the odds are 3.6 to 4 times greater that commercially sponsored studies will favor the sponsor's product than studies without commercial funding. And in August of 2003 a study published in JAMA found that among the highest-quality clinical trials, the odds that those with commercial sponsorship will recommend the new drug are 5." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "And the increasing competition for commercial research dollars put academic centers under even more pressure to accept the terms offered by the commercial sponsors of research, threatening the independence and scientific integrity that had been the hallmark of the academic environment. In 1999 Dr." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"The FDA's weak advice, said the EWG, "fails to meet standards for accuracy and scientific integrity" and, if followed, would actually "increase the number of women of childbearing age with unsafe levels of mercury in their blood." In response to this charge, the FDA explained that it could not issue more restrictive advice because the results of its focus-group testing indicated that women would misinterpret that kind of advice. If the FDA said to "limit" fish intake, women would think they should never eat fish." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"The reason to resist dismissing the systemic memory theory without first studying the arguments is not only for the sake of scientific integrity, it is also for the memories of everyone's loved ones as well. A Prelude to Controversy—Why Did the Skeptics Scoff? On July 4, 1997, the Tucson Citizen published a feature article titled "Hypothesis: Objects Have Memory," with the subheading, "2 at UA say cells and even jewelry may be able to remember. Skeptics scoff." - Gary E. Schwartz and Linda G. S. Russek, The Living Energy Universe (Get the book.) "You see, if the universal living memory process turns out to be true, scientific integrity requires that we entertain the hypothesis that not only is Henry's consciousness alive and evolving, but that he may even be part of the process of writing this book. AFTERWORD What's Wrong with the Hypothesis?" - Gary E. Schwartz and Linda G. S. Russek, The Living Energy Universe (Get the book.) "When the available data are looked at openly with scientific integrity, the following conclusion seems justified: though the data are clearly not definitive, they are curiously consistent with what Joel Martin and Patricia Romanowski describe in their book, Love Beyond Life. If universal living memory exists, as predicted by the systemic memory process, then not only should the spirits and souls of our departed loved ones remember, but they will be just as alive as we are. Chapter 10 Does the Universe Remember?" - Gary E. Schwartz and Linda G. S. Russek, The Living Energy Universe (Get the book.)

"Like corporate advisory panels, such bodies are given lofty, objective-sounding names to convey scientific integrity. Witness the Bell Institute of Health and Nutrition, created by cereal giant General Mills. Its mission is to "contribute to research on whole grains, micronutrients and breakfast, and publish research and scientific articles in leading peer-reviewed journals."26 The significance of the word "Bell" in the organization's name isn't exactly clear." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"It is ironic that we are witnessing serious challenges to the scientific integrity of studies supporting the FDA approval of the SSRI class of antidepressants at a time when an unsilent majority of us go along with the pretense that this is evidence-based psychiatry. It is too easy to fault drug companies. There are too many of us whose integrity < has been comprom ised by grant support or honoraria for the rest of us to be able to trust their advice." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.)

"Healy observes that the development and use of antidepressants followed the same path as that of the cholesterol-lowering drugs both based on a choice of assumptions favoring patents, rather than scientific integrity and patient outcome. He writes that: " the net effect of control" over science by business is that "certain aspects of the field (of research) are selected over others. A premium is put on certain data in a manner that budds up bandwagons and skews the field. This process is not confined to psychiatry." - Helke Ferrie, Dispatches From the War Zone of Environmental Health (Get the book.)

"In previous pages we examined the scientific integrity of the research projects upon which official opposition to Laetrile is based, and we saw that they are shockingly lacking on all counts. We discovered, also, that almost all of the cancer "experts" who have spoken out against Laetrile have done so, not out of personal experience or experimentation, but simply out of their complete faith in the scientific integrity of these discredited reports. Showing that the case against Laetrile is fraudulent, however, does not constitute a case for Laetrile." - G. Edward Griffin, World Without Cancer (Get the book.)

"EPA to enforce the Principles of scientific integrity Policy. This action was precipitated when an employee manager complained to the union that he was told, "It is your job to support my decisions, even if I say 2+2=7." Pressuring employees to craft spurious scientific data to support deceptive invalid management decisions is hardly the way to go. After grievances in this regard were submitted by the union, the EPA denied the request by the union to enforce the Principle's Policy because it was said to be impractical or not possible." - Doris J. Rapp, M.D., Our Toxic World: A Wake Up Call (Get the book.)

"In effect, the public interest in a regulatory system that is 'science based' — that meets scientific standards of objectivity, a major aspect of which is full openness to scientific peer review — is significantly compromised when that openness is negotiated away by regulators in exchange for cordial and supportive relationships with the industries being regulated." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.)

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