Who do you trust?

In the news this week: A Doctor accused of falsifying medical research and being paid off by Big Pharma. Dr. Scott Reuben, was accused of faking medical research studies, including many that were published in medical journals, has been charged with health care fraud Thursday in federal court. This so called medical professional accepted money from mega-pharmaceutical giants Pfizer and Merck to do "Studies" on some of their major medications (Celebrex, Vioxx, Bextra), yet not one of these studies was actually done- not one patient was enrolled in any study.

"He's accused of accepting a $75,000 grant from Pfizer to research the effectiveness of the pain medication Celebrex for a 2005 study, the Day reports.

His research, which the Day reports was pioneering at the the time, indicated that there are post-surgery benefits from painkillers. But no patients were actually enrolled in the study, according to a U.S. Department of Justice news release.

The Wall Street Journal reports that he also falsified information about Pfizer's Bextra and on Merck's Vioxx.

“Anesthesia & Analgesia” had to retract 10 papers Reuben wrote and medical experts say at least 21 journal articles by the anesthesiologist appear to be fabricated, the Day reports.

Reuben was the chief of acute pain at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts, and The Day reports that the hospital let him go last March, after an audit revealed he had been inventing data for as many as 13 years."

...Still believe what you read?

While the medical community is tsk tsking this incident, it begs the question: If this doctor was able to get away with this fraudulent activity for 13 years, who else is writing themselves their own retirement fund? Only an ostrich would believe that this is a one-off incident.

Writing false articles and making up imaginary studies is not limited to the realm of Big Pharma either. Mega Corporate Giant Nestle has been caught with their hand in the false research cookie jar before as well. Canadian scientist, Dr Ranjit Chandra, created extensive falsified research that was used by Nestlé to promote its infant formulas.
http://www.babymilkaction.org/press/press3feb06.html
http://www.infactcanada.ca/INFACTWinter2006NLfinalcommercial.pdf

The time has come my friends, to really start doing your OWN research into products and claims made by these mega corporations that are only interested in earning a big buck, because apparently dollars and cents mean more to them than the health of their consumers.

Oh What a shock!!!!

HERE to read the entire NBC article

Today HRT, Tomorrow.... Vaccine manufacturers?

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is on the verge of being seriously slapped down for selling women Hormone Replacement Therapy pills that cause cancer.... not just for selling them, but for selling them with full knowledge that they may cause cancer. Court battles are being waged all over the US as women are going after Pfizer for knowingly selling them a product that they knew was cancer causing... and so far Pfizer has lost every single engagement.

The law firm behind a $78 million (US) court-ordered settlement in the fall of a lawsuit brought against the company pfizer, created a video made to look like a TV news segment. In it, they accuses Wyeth of willfully hiding the drug's dangers.

(in response Pfizer has demanded that the courts remove the video from You Tube saying " it could prejudice juries in upcoming court cases.")

HERE to read the original blog and View the Video


So today, the vast majority of the public now KNOW that HRT treatments can cause cancer and doctors and patients alike are saying "NO" to hormone replacements. Finally, the public has been forced to admit and SEE that Pfitzer didn't care about the public taking it's medication, only about the bottom line and making a profit.

The first of the biggies to tumble out of public favour?!

Is this the start of something that might actually save our health and lives? Holding Big Pharma accountable for their gross negligence and their money grubbing actions? If it's HRT today, who will be next to be held accountable for the damanges to public health and the deaths they have caused in their bid to make billions of dollars for their pockets?

Shall I whisper it?

Dare I say it?

...are the vaccine manufacturers next?



..........we can only hope.