new study reveals how unscientific today’s cardiovascular guidelines really are
CAN YOU TRUST TODAY’S “SCIENTIFIC” CARDIOVASCULAR GUIDELINES? The title of today’s post raises a pertinent question; can the current medical guidelines for treating cardiovascular disease be trusted? Sure they can. If you are big pharma or big medicine you can trust them to be your continual cash cow — a revenue stream that’s definitely more […]
is your physician a paid spokesperson for the pharmaceutical industry?
Might Your Doctor Be A Paid Spokesperson for the Pharmaceutical Industry? “We believe that it is imperative that we continue to actively challenge our business model at every level to ensure we are responding to the needs of patients and meeting the wider expectations of society. GSK today set out plans to evolve the way […]
taking on the recent heart association study on nutritional supplements and heart disease
HAVING HEART PROBLEMS? DON’T TRUST THE NEWEST STUDY FROM THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY! “The authors concluded that author’s self-declared financial conflicts of interest and source of funding do not seem to impact outcomes in major cardiovascular clinical trials.” From the February 2013 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (Authors’ Self-Declared […]
cherry-picking the evidence: is there a difference between what i do and what big pharma does?
CHERRY PICKING THE EVIDENCE: IS IT OK TO CHERRY-PICK SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH? The Cambridge Dictionary describes cherry-picking thusly: To pick only the best people or things from a group, so that only people or things that are less good remain. Example; The new schools were accused of cherry-picking the best students in the area. In basketball, […]
brand new study sheds light on problems with hpv vaccine and medical research in general
VACCINES, PLACEBOS & HPV: A BASIC SCIENCE LESSON The PLACEBO EFFECT is quite amazing. People think they are getting a real drug, which kicks in their body/mind connection to their immune system, and bam — they get better. Why is this so amazing? Because a placebo is, by definition, an inert substance (sugar pills, water, […]
corruption in healthcare: why evidence-based medicine is ruining american health
CORRUPTION IN HEALTHCARE: SHOULD WE BE SURPRISED? When I started my practice two and a half decades ago, one of the big knocks against my profession — at least by the medical community — was the lack of solid peer-reviewed research. Docs and BIG PHARMA could sit back and gloat because when it came to […]
new “study” reveals what’s wrong with medical research
270 SCIENTISTS POLLED: HOW BAD IS IT IN THE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH ARENA? If you’ve followed the section of my site filed under “EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE,” you are aware that for quite some time I’ve been showing you that medical research, as well as medical practice itself, is often anything but. A recent article in Vox (The […]
evidence-based medicine: who decides what constitutes evidence?
EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE: PICKING AND CHOOSING THE EVIDENCE Unfortunately, the title of this post could have easily been, ‘The More Things Change, The More they Stay the Same.‘ According to his Facebook page, Dr. Brian Earp is a Yale-trained scientist who is both a research assistant at the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics and a […]
is evidence based medicine really “evidence-based”?
EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE: IS IT REALLY AS “EVIDENCE-BASED” AS YOU’VE BEEN LED TO BELIEVE? “[Drug] trials can be rigged in a dozen ways, and it happens all the time.” Dr. Marcia Angell from 2004’s, The Truth about Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It. Angell’s book was written over […]