Evidence-based medicine has been corrupted by corporate interests, failed regulation and commercialisation of academia, which act to suppress negative trial results, conceal adverse events and withhold raw data from the academic research community, according to a peer-reviewed article in the British Medical Journal by Jon Jureidini of the University of Adelaide and Leemon B. McHenry of California State University.
Medicine is largely dominated by a small number of very large pharmaceutical companies that compete for market share, but are effectively united in their efforts to expanding that market. The short term stimulus to biomedical research because of privatisation has been celebrated by free market champions, but the unintended, long term consequences for medicine have been severe. Scientific progress is thwarted by the ownership of data and knowledge because industry suppresses negative trial results, fails to report adverse events, and does not share raw data with the academic research community. Patients die because of the adverse impact of commercial interests on the research agenda, universities, and regulators.
The pharmaceutical industry’s responsibility to its shareholders means that priority must be given to their hierarchical power structures, product loyalty, and public relations propaganda over scientific integrity. Although universities have always been elite institutions prone to influence through endowments, they have long laid claim to being guardians of truth and the moral conscience of society. But in the face of inadequate government funding, they have adopted a neo-liberal market approach, actively seeking pharmaceutical funding on commercial terms. As a result, university departments become instruments of industry: through company control of the research agenda and ghostwriting of medical journal articles and continuing medical education, academics become agents for the promotion of commercial products. When scandals involving industry-academe partnership are exposed in the mainstream media, trust in academic institutions is weakened and the vision of an open society is betrayed.
The corporate university also compromises the concept of academic leadership. Deans who reached their leadership positions by virtue of distinguished contributions to their disciplines have in places been replaced with fundraisers and academic managers, who are forced to demonstrate their profitability or show how they can attract corporate sponsors. In medicine, those who succeed in academia are likely to be key opinion leaders (KOLs in marketing parlance), whose careers can be advanced through the opportunities provided by industry. Potential KOLs are selected based on a complex array of profiling activities carried out by companies, for example, physicians are selected based on their influence on prescribing habits of other physicians. KOLs are sought out by industry for this influence and for the prestige that their university affiliation brings to the branding of the company’s products. As well paid members of pharmaceutical advisory boards and speakers’ bureaus, KOLs present results of industry trials at medical conferences and in continuing medical education. Instead of acting as independent, disinterested scientists and critically evaluating a drug’s performance, they become what marketing executives refer to as “product champions.”
I suspect the authors’ confidence in Government and public funding to free medicine from predetermined agendas is misplaced, as the Government propaganda during the pandemic (and on numerous other issues) has shown. But the points about the corruptions that the dominance of big pharmaceutical companies bring to the development and testing of medicine deserve to be taken seriously.
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Yet another sceptic “conspiracy theory” gaining mainstream acceptance
Downtickbod; lets read the rebuttal and give us all a good laugh in the process.
Was just about to downtick but realised “conspiracy theory” in inverted commas.
I wish articles like this could reach everywhere. Here in Oz, we’re still back in vax mandate, vax passport, ‘vaccines are the only way to be free’ zone
Speaking as a GP working in Oz, you don’t know the half of it.
The complete loss of ethics is frightening, as my colleagues laughed and joked about the prospect of vaccinating young children, and the best way to hold them down and distract them.
I brought up the inability of a patient to give full and informed consent, due to the total [and ongoing] lack of any safety data for the medical gene therapies. They didn’t want to know. No apparent knowledge of the minimal risk to under 18s from covid and the already known [and admitted, in some places] risks of the inoculations. They appear to be completely taken in by the cult of covidianism.
ATAGI, the Oz equivalent of the JCVI, prefaces every communication with the statement that the inoculations are safe and effective. There is never any mention of ADRs, although it has been admitted that there are a few cases of myocarditis. The assumption is still that having covid is still a bigger risk than the inoculations.
The media never mention ADRs, although I see the UK papers are starting to bring up the easy to see ineffectiveness of the inoculations.
When Shane Warne died, there was the usual idiotic expert expounding the theory that he had had covid and this, along with his already known heart disease, led to his death. Never a mention of his at least 3 inoculations, with the known attendant risk of myocarditis and other cardiac effects. Yet again, the narrative of how deadly covid is, [with the last calculated IFR from Finland of 0.06%!], and how the “vaccines” are going to save us. 3 doses didn’t save Shane. Complete cognitive dissonance between the fact that he had 3 inoculations and the fact that he still caught covid, and possibly died from a combination of circumstances.
There are a lot of people catching o though, including young Year 11 and 12 school students, and hopefully common sense and resistance will come from them, because it sure ain’t coming from their elders. Still lots of mask wearers around, who look as if they would be happier in a HazMat suit.
Incidentally I refuse to capitalise covid. Whoever heard of Flu?
Evidence-based medicine has been corrupted by corporate interests, failed regulation and commercialisation of academia, which act to suppress negative trial results, conceal adverse events and withhold raw data from the academic research community, according to a peer-reviewed article in the British Medical Journal by Jon Jureidini of the University of Adelaide and Leemon B. McHenry of California State University.
…………………. yes,
it was obvious yrs and yrs ago,
But Academia needs to SURE. That’s why it takes them so long. They are working really hard, maaan.
Indeed – the oppositionists in academia are fighting a tough war, moving at dead of night from one safe seminar to the next, from refectory dead drop to underground colloquium. Even the hiding of messages in research grant applications soon takes its toll.
As for medics, none of them are interested in money, and none of them ever tell lies.
‘Medicine is Corrupted By Dominance of Big Pharmaceutical Companies, Which Suppress Negative Results and Hide Adverse Effects,’
Says Peer-Reviewed BMJ ArticleSaid Dr Vernon Coleman on countless occasions since the 1970s.
I now look forward to the publication of the BMJ’s long awaited peer reviewed article on the Pope’s alleged religion of choice.
Ah but alleged by whom, that is the question!
Bear defecation: A locational Analysis.
Your mention of Dr Vernon Coleman coupled with the DS’s recent hit-piece about Dr Sam Bailey, just reminded me that the chap with a YouTube channel called ‘Politico’ has taken down nearly all of his videos shortly after making disparaging remarks about both Dr Coleman and Dr Bailey. It’s a shame because he had made some pretty good videos over the past couple of years. I guess he wasn’t keen on the backlash from previous supporters. Either that or he’s the victim of the body snatchers.
I missed any hit piece about Dr Sam Bailey. Any idea where I can find it? Her videos are usually very interesting.
Total corporate capture. Both vertical and horizontal
Calling that article peer reviewed is a bit of a stretch. It is more of an opinion article backed up by references. The opinion is also just pointing out the obvious. This was the consensus opinion in the media and research until Covid. But I guess it is good that it has been published.
Peer review is a formal process whereby 2 or 3 referees are asked to critique the paper recommending publication unmodified, publication after modifications or rejection.
You’d have to ask the editor which papers in the journal were peer-reviewed, as as far as I know, the BMJ doesn’t formally state which particular ones are and aren’t.
The BBC took lessons from Nature magazine about ‘global warming’.
Science is objective.
‘Peer Review’ – Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of The Lancet.
“Peer review to the public is portrayed as a quasi-sacred process that helps to make science our most objective truth teller, but we know that the system of peer review is biased, unjust, unaccountable, incomplete, easily fixed, often insulting, usually ignorant, occasionally foolish, and frequently wrong”
The journals are as bent as the rest, presumably.
Who can forget some of the blinders they’ve played since March 2020? In, out, in, out, shake it all about.
The peer reviewed well stuffed brown envelope has predominated in Goves of academe for decades.
Imperial mint, anyone?
Bleepin’ booster, grandmother?
If only the journals had been remotely interested in printing this stuff decades ago, before we became mired between Roche and a hard place. Now they are only trying to save their skins. Is that it?
Of course this may well be a cry for help by the University of Adelaide School of Aromatherapy for more brown envelopes and a new Bunsen burner from Aunt Melinda and Uncle Bill. Send more or else!
Very Good!
I thang u!
The BBC took lessons from Nature Magazine about global warming….
As pointed out , Government itself is now merely an extension of big business and the political elite have become themselves ” product champions “.
Well let’s defer to expert opinion.
“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini
Let’s see what else the maestro had to say about our liberal, social, representative, Parliamentary demockracy after the last two years.
The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value. Thus understood, Fascism is totalitarian, and the Fascist State–a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values–interprets, develops, and potentiates the whole life of a people.
Well let’s defer to expert opinion.
“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini
Run for cover, Batman! The lancers of Homonymia are charging again!
Oh calm down, Robin, we’re at Wikipedia and they’ll never find the way!
A corporation is an entity which became legally encorporated. In current use, especially, in the US of A, this usually refers to a commercial entity which could also be referred to as company (another homonym) or firm, usually a large, multi-national one. But that’s not what translators of Mussoline referred to when using the term. They mean a society organized into trade and industry association, losely patterend on the way medieval (city) society was structured, eg, the weaver’s guild, the cobbler’s guild, the butcher’s guild and so on.
That’s the idea behind corporatism: An all-encompassing set of encorporated special interest groups which collaborate in order to organize state and society. Eg, instead of trade unions fighting employers in order to achieve benefits for their members, they were supposed to become institutions representing them and working together with similarly structured employer’s organization is order to resolve practical issue.
This has absolutely no relation to the use it’s being put here.
✓ for the hilarious title.
This is a case of “If there’s no opposition to X to speak of, then X may offer you its own opposition”. The CIA’s Facebook does the same.
The headline is not the half of it!
Coronagate Documentary (2hrs)
https://wolfclanmedia.org/coronagate-film/
Corrupted by government interference, more like.
This is why there are so many doctators around.
Article from Hart group re child deaths in VAERS. Will be an underestimate. Absolutely pointless loss of life. Its soul destroying what they have and are doing.
Another two P45’s in the post.
The universities are no whit different to “ladies of the night”, and have been so for quite some time. It is moot whether, in selling themselves and any scanty principles they may have possessed, to Big Pharma, is better or worse than their mercenary abasement to any foreign body or country, friend or foe, that comes along with money, advancement and kudos for the few.
There have forever been nooks and crannies in the life of the UK,in which corruption of various sorts has flourished. However, we now appear to have reached a nadir, at which there is no incorrupt body or institution at all. Medicine, politics, religion, education, the Royal Family, science; you name it, and it’s institutionally corrupt. The apotheosis is the misnamed “Honours System”, whose present-day activities would make Lloyd George and Maundy Gregory blush.
Big Doctor hand in wallet with Big Pharma.
If the intention is to free medicine, blah, blah, get rid of doctors. Medicine is a Guild operating a monopoly enforced by Government.
And how many of these are controlled by BlackRock or Vanguard (world’s largest investment houses), who also control a significant chunk of the MSM?
Connections …
Whilst this is welcome truth being expressed, it hardly passes the ‘novel insight’ test normally required for a ‘peer reviewed publication’ in a reputable biomedical journal.
This was plainly obvious 20 years ago. Just look at the Vioxx scandal. Look at the protracted thimerosal vaccine adjuvant scandal. Look at how low-cost generic treatments are prevented from being prescribed so that patented expensive drugs can be used instead.
Thiomerosal to be replaced by aluminium, which is an even more dangerous neurotoxin than mercury. We are deliberately injecting our babies with neurotoxins
Pope/bears/woods/shit. Of course when the ‘heavyweight intellectuals’ of academia speak then it miraculously becomes fact. When the ‘unqualified’ smelly little serfs say it, it’s just populist disinformation that needs to be ‘fact checked’.
Nice to see the BMJ now being regularly ‘fact checked’ too..
Shock.
No doubt this will shake the MSM to its roots.
FWIW this began in the early 80’s.
Please make Kennedy’s book – The Real Anthony Fauci Compulsory reading for the sheep.
It should also be serialised on prime time TV in perpetuity.
Unless the sheep awake they’re dead.
Doctors – to whom the sheep sadly but unsurprisingly revere, are inculcated from birth (almost) about the supremacy of modern medicine/bigpharma.
God save us.
They won’t.
Sorry, but whilst the conclusion of this ‘study’ might be correct, it’s nothing more than an opinion piece (it says “opinion” at the top of the page in the BMJ) and can hardly be described as peer reviewed science.
Recomended Reading: Globalists Release Timeline for Health Tyranny
https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/globalists-release-timeline-for-health
Hopefully they will rot in Hell.
Too many sheep to attain justice on this earth, it would seem.
But one never knows.
Dust off the lamp posts….
its great these things are now coming out but no one who can do anything about this is listening!!!!
Bojo & Labour kept saying they where following the science, it was obvious from the start that the science was corrupt, not just covid but climate, net zero etc etc etc.
Bozo and Kneel are following globocrap’s orders. Science has bugger all to do with this.
The ” Awake”have been saying this for nearly two years now.
Life saving Ivermectin still banned by Javid, Johnson and Whitty (where is he?) I see.
No s_1t, Sherlock… Is that the sound of scales falling from eyes?
The book Bad Pharma by Dr Ben Goldacre was saying this back in 2012.
Many people were saying it way before then.
Everyone knows it is corrupt but nothing is done about it.
Indeed, government is complicit. We need change.
The problem of university research results bias is a big one that is undermining their credibility. The impact of all major donors should be taken into account and declared as a conflict of interest as it is supposed to be in parliament. This might deter donors aiming by their donations to gain influence on research results, but unless there is some independent scientific review of the situation it will be difficult to believe universties are not influenced by substantial donations.
One can infer based on this article, that the sudden never before used lockdown approach, gross inflation of covid risks, use of therapeutics and total focus on blindly treatment using novel vaccines was a decision by experts, public health and academia not based on any science but based on pharmaceuticals financial gains in the interest of shareholders and others. Some independent specialists have said failure in early treatment using therapeutics has resulted in up to 85% of the covid deaths were unnecessary. Unless this crime is addressed by an independent enquiry, this tragic crime will be repeated again and again.
Perhaps someone actually WANTS this ”tragic crime” to be repeated. In their eyes it’s not a crime at all, but just part of the picture.
And is the Pope still Catholic?