I found an article on the book Our Daily Meds by Melody Peterson at the office the other day. It looked interesting so I put it on hold at the library.
This is a must read book. It’s terribly scary. I’d have thought it would be saying things that I knew but instead it really expanded upon the problems felt by the medical industry. Melody points out time and time again that radio disc jockeys aren’t allowed to take money from record companies as this could be construed as being paid to play a certain song, doctors are hired as “consultants” all the time by pharmaceutical companies. We are expected to believe that doctors only ever have our own best interests at heart, even when they are given gifts specifically for selling more a certain company’s pet drug.
Additionally her chapters on the research were scary. So much of the research out there is done and reviewed by people on the company payroll. These people aren’t doing the research for the company but are rather paid consultants. Nothing is ever said but certainly the paid consultants know very well they want certain results. Further, even many of the reviewers of these studies are on the payroll of the pharmaceutical companies. So much for over sight.
It’s a scary picture of our lack of regulations costing a lot of people their lives. If you want to enjoy some good discussion, check out the reviews at Amazon and also the comments on them. I hope you will get as much of a laugh as I did out of one that said, “Typical anti-science liberal.” HUH? Did I miss the boat and now the liberals are all believing we ran around with dinosaurs in the Bible?
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