Re: university researchers give control to drug companies

From: Herman Rubin (hrubin_at_odds.stat.purdue.edu)
Date: 01/18/05 

Date: 18 Jan 2005 15:37:55 -0500

In article <1105919925.118873.64480@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
 <zwalanga@yahoo.com> wrote:
>"Academic experts have stood by while companies kept unsuccessful
>results from the public. "Money," {Drummond} Rennie said. "Money for
>yourself, money for your unit, money for all the people you employ on
>other research, money for travel. Money is a very, very powerful
>influence here."

THIS should be made a major felony. I have consistently
maintained that a manufacturer needs to give ALL the
information about the product, including the adverse
information, and this should protect from liability.

BTW, while this cannot be done, negative studies should
be published. The use of meta-analysis when this is not
done is invalid, and this is heavily done. A fair number
of current medical advice is based upon this misuse of
statistics. 

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