Should we be wary of drugs?

We are told all day long that drugs have undergone rigorous testing with double-blind clinical studies, which guarantee the safety and efficacy of the drugs. ..... This is an opinion that is well anchored in our minds, especially when it is linked to the official information of the mainstream media.

Without going into the recent scandals known to all, such as Mediator, which showed a collusion between the scientists who made the studies, the pharmaceutical companies and the health authorities (who are mainly there to protect the interests of the big pharmaceutical companies), an American researcher reveals to us what happens in this field of the "rigged" science of the drugs which lead to thousands of deaths each year of which nobody speaks....

We have gone from real science to the science of a BIAISED Medicine

Conventional medical treatments have become one of the top three leading causes of death worldwide.

A big part of the problem is that we have made a fairly dramatic shift away from true science-based medicine. Instead, we now have a biased science of medicine, and we are reaping the benefits.

John Ioannidis, author of the 2005 article "Why most published research results are wrong", published in PLoS Medicine, is one of the world's leading experts on the credibility of medical research. He and his team of researchers have repeatedly shown that the majority of researchers' conclusions in their published studies are exaggerated or completely wrong.

Doctors use 90 percent flawed or incorrect studies to prescribe you medications or recommend surgery. Is it any wonder then that American doctors kill 210,000 patients each year? With such a high probability of having an inappropriate treatment, maybe we are lucky that the numbers are not worse...

The challenges of Biased Science

One of the first challenges you encounter when trying to analyze the results of a clinical study is to confirm that the study is free of any conflicts of interest that would have perverted the meaning of the results and the analysis. This means verifying the research of the author(s) of the study, its funders, and the motivations for the study design. This is not an easy task.

There is also the problem of study results being withheld and never published, simply because the results are not in favor of the treatment being tested. The real exception to this rule is researchers receiving federal government grants. They must register their trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, and they must "publish their results regardless of the outcome.

Negative results are just as critical as positive results. May you have twice as many negative results as positive, but if only the positive aspects (flawed or not) see the light of day, it will greatly distort the overall "scientific basis" of the treatment. In essence, the treatment is based on a bias scientist Unfortunately, the vast majority of research is now funded by industry, which has led to the systematic destruction of scientific integrity and validity.

Another factor that creates biased scientific studies is that the results that are most likely to be published first are those that are considered important; and, often, these results turn out to be wrong in other prestigious journals and publications. Some scientific journals pride themselves on being very selective, discarding the vast majority of papers submitted. The assumption is that they only publish the best scientific work. But the 2008 Dr. Ioannidis study, "Why Current Publication Practices Can Distort Science," showed that of nearly 50 articles published in journals, about one-third were refuted by other studies within a few years.

According to a 2013 paper published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings: In the last decade alone, 146 already well-established medical practices and treatments have been completely reversed. The question is: are these treatments being replaced by other treatments, based on equally biased science? It seems that this phenomenon is likely to play a very important role in explaining why the number of deaths related to medical errors continues to rise.

HBE Diffusion, PANNE Carol 20 August, 2014
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