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DeSwiss
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DeSwiss's Journal
February 16, 2015
- This episode is destined to be a classic!
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Tobacco
- This episode is destined to be a classic!
February 15, 2015
- This is like those stories of winning the lottery and then the person having their life implode right after. Except in this case they find Jayzus and it's everybody else that suffers......
Wile E. Coyote, Supergenius
- This is like those stories of winning the lottery and then the person having their life implode right after. Except in this case they find Jayzus and it's everybody else that suffers......
February 15, 2015
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Are Your Medications Safe?
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The FDA buries evidence of fraud in medical trials. My students and I dug it up.
By Charles Seife
Agents of the Food and Drug Administration know better than anyone else just how bad scientific misbehavior can get. Reading the FDAs inspection files feels almost like watching a highlights reel from a Scientists Gone Wild video. Its a seemingly endless stream of lurid vignetteseach of which catches a medical researcher in an unguarded moment, succumbing to the temptation to do things he knows he really shouldnt be doing. Faked X-ray reports. Forged retinal scans. Phony lab tests. Secretly amputated limbs. All done in the name of science when researchers thought that nobody was watching.
That misconduct happens isnt shocking. What is: When the FDA finds scientific fraud or misconduct, the agency doesnt notify the public, the medical establishment, or even the scientific community that the results of a medical experiment are not to be trusted. On the contrary. For more than a decade, the FDA has shown a pattern of burying the details of misconduct. As a result, nobody ever finds out which data is bogus, which experiments are tainted, and which drugs might be on the market under false pretenses.
The FDA has repeatedly hidden evidence of scientific fraud not just from the public, but also from its most trusted scientific advisers, even as they were deciding whether or not a new drug should be allowed on the market. Even a congressional panel investigating a case of fraud regarding a dangerous drug couldn't get forthright answers. For an agency devoted to protecting the public from bogus medical science, the FDA seems to be spending an awful lot of effort protecting the perpetrators of bogus science from the public.
Much of my research has to do with follies, foibles, and fraud in science, and I knew that the FDA wasnt exactly bending over backward to correct the scientific record when its inspectors found problems during clinical trials. So as part of my investigative reporting class at New York University, my students and I set out to find out just how bad the problem wasand how much important information the FDA was keeping under wraps.
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The FDA buries evidence of fraud in medical trials. My students and I dug it up.
By Charles Seife
Agents of the Food and Drug Administration know better than anyone else just how bad scientific misbehavior can get. Reading the FDAs inspection files feels almost like watching a highlights reel from a Scientists Gone Wild video. Its a seemingly endless stream of lurid vignetteseach of which catches a medical researcher in an unguarded moment, succumbing to the temptation to do things he knows he really shouldnt be doing. Faked X-ray reports. Forged retinal scans. Phony lab tests. Secretly amputated limbs. All done in the name of science when researchers thought that nobody was watching.
That misconduct happens isnt shocking. What is: When the FDA finds scientific fraud or misconduct, the agency doesnt notify the public, the medical establishment, or even the scientific community that the results of a medical experiment are not to be trusted. On the contrary. For more than a decade, the FDA has shown a pattern of burying the details of misconduct. As a result, nobody ever finds out which data is bogus, which experiments are tainted, and which drugs might be on the market under false pretenses.
The FDA has repeatedly hidden evidence of scientific fraud not just from the public, but also from its most trusted scientific advisers, even as they were deciding whether or not a new drug should be allowed on the market. Even a congressional panel investigating a case of fraud regarding a dangerous drug couldn't get forthright answers. For an agency devoted to protecting the public from bogus medical science, the FDA seems to be spending an awful lot of effort protecting the perpetrators of bogus science from the public.
Much of my research has to do with follies, foibles, and fraud in science, and I knew that the FDA wasnt exactly bending over backward to correct the scientific record when its inspectors found problems during clinical trials. So as part of my investigative reporting class at New York University, my students and I set out to find out just how bad the problem wasand how much important information the FDA was keeping under wraps.
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- See also:
FDA lets drugs approved on fraudulent research stay on market
The FDA - Hazardous To Your Health?
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February 14, 2015
Thanks to my Anonymous Heart Donor(s)
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- From the bottom of mine!
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February 13, 2015
- Great news. A ''ceasefire.'' Nothing pisses weapons manufacturers and the morally-deficient bankers who fund them, more than that single word. Meanwhile, ''our allies'' in the Ukrainian parliament are in need of a peace plan themselves.
Or at least a referee......
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Kerry: US may lift Russia sanctions if Minsk agreements enacted
- Great news. A ''ceasefire.'' Nothing pisses weapons manufacturers and the morally-deficient bankers who fund them, more than that single word. Meanwhile, ''our allies'' in the Ukrainian parliament are in need of a peace plan themselves.
Or at least a referee......
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February 12, 2015
Thom Hartmann- Q: ''What's More Dangerous Than Fukushima?''
DeSwiss- A: ''Congress''
February 11, 2015
Finally, someone whose mind is straight. It's the physical attributes, the resources, the skills, the technology that has the value. Not the money. The money is like inches, a way of measuring something.
- Only we have a set of people (1%ers) who have screwed with the tape. And their inches are longer than anyone else's inches. Way longer.
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Min. Katrougalos: ''Greece was negotiating as 'debt colony’ until now, we don’t want a new loan''
Finally, someone whose mind is straight. It's the physical attributes, the resources, the skills, the technology that has the value. Not the money. The money is like inches, a way of measuring something.
- Only we have a set of people (1%ers) who have screwed with the tape. And their inches are longer than anyone else's inches. Way longer.
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February 11, 2015
- You've heard of Gunboat Diplomacy? Well, this is Nuclear Reactor Diplomacy. Same school of thought, different class altogether.
With Nuclear Reactor Diplomacy peace is achieved, but everyone dies anyway.......
Russia to build Egypt’s first nuclear plant, help in ‘whole new industry’
- You've heard of Gunboat Diplomacy? Well, this is Nuclear Reactor Diplomacy. Same school of thought, different class altogether.
With Nuclear Reactor Diplomacy peace is achieved, but everyone dies anyway.......
February 10, 2015
- And of course there's the formal black and white collar for state occasions and official ceremonies.....
The Daily Show - An Egyptian Satirist in America
- And of course there's the formal black and white collar for state occasions and official ceremonies.....
February 9, 2015
- The ''Your Doctor's On Pharma Dollars'' ad should be required to play on all media devices in every doctor's office, clinic and hospital throughout the country.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Marketing to Doctors (HBO)
- The ''Your Doctor's On Pharma Dollars'' ad should be required to play on all media devices in every doctor's office, clinic and hospital throughout the country.
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