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Subject: Re: [OM] [OT] drugs industry
From: Scott Gomez <sgomez.baja@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 08:46:56 -0700
All of this conversation reinforces my general opinion that there's no good
reason to see a doctor where there is anything else of proven value that
may work.

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Scott

On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 9/22/2012 9:31 AM, Jez Cunningham wrote:
> > Another example of what Chuck's been telling us for ages...
> >
> >
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/sep/21/drugs-industry-scandal-ben-goldacre
>
> He doesn't go the next logical step, though:
>
> "In 2007, researchers looked at every published trial that set out to
> explore the benefits of a statin. These
> cholesterol-lowering drugs reduce your risk of having a heart attack and
> are prescribed in very large quantities. This
> study found 192 trials in total, either comparing one statin against
> another, or comparing a statin against a different
> kind of treatment. They found that industry-funded trials were 20 times
> more likely to give results favouring the test
> drug."
>
> It is logical from this brief summary to question whether statins do in
> fact "reduce your risk of having a heart
> attack". It also might raise the question in the reader's mind whether
> they actually reduce cholesterol levels. No clear
> evidence in such a summary, just the logical possibility that the stated
> benefits may not exist.
>
> If you really want to see the extent of our whole drug culture, read
> //Manufacturing Depression by /Gary Greenberg. /His
> history of the development, testing and marketing of anti-depressants is
> quite depressing in itself. The title refers
> not just to the manufacturing of anti-depressants, but to the manufacture.
> invention, of a disease that mostly does not
> exist, at least not in the form generally described, in order to sell
> drugs that don't cure it.
>
> Non Medicated Moose
>
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> What if the Hokey Pokey *IS* what it's all about?
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