Stop the teaching of pseudoscience - Comments by JohnHarvey

[Tanya Marquette]

Just read this article this a.m. on Mercola.com. good article.
tanya
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[John Harvey]

Thank you, Hennie!

Tanya, if the site you mentioned that tracks fraud in medical research references its information properly, then it will fill the bill quite nicely!

It's a pity that the article Mercola and the NYT base their pieces on is available only via subscription to the JAMA.

Yes, you're most welcome to forward the post.

Cheers!

John
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“Once, conscientious journals did not permit reviewers to take money from drugmakers… Today, medical-journal editors estimate that 95 percent of the academic-medicine specialists who assess patented treatments have financial relationships with pharmaceutical companies, and even the prestigious NEJM gave up its search for objective reviewers in June 1992, announcing that it could find no reviewers that did not accept industry funds.”
—Harriet Washington, "Flacking for Big Pharma", The American Scholar summer 2011.

[Tanya Marquette]

that is typical of medical journals online--they are very big on the money and very weak on everything else as
several articles have shown
tanya
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[Hennie Duits]

Well, than let me throw in another one :
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Diabetes Drugs Increase Your Risk of Death

Drugs are widely prescribed for type 2 diabetics to help lower
blood sugar levels, but a new meta-analysis of 13 randomized controlled
trials involving more than 33,000 people showed that this treatment is
not only ineffective, it's dangerous as well. Treatment with
glucose-lowering drugs actually showed the potential to increase your
risk of death from heart-related, and all other causes.

Researchers noted:

"The overall results of this meta-analysis do not show a
benefit of intensive glucose lowering treatment on all cause mortality
or cardiovascular death. A 19% increase in all cause mortality and a 43%
increase in cardiovascular mortality cannot be excluded."

Lessons Learned from Avandia: Diabetes Drugs Can be Deadly

Avandia (rosiglitazone) is the poster child for what is wrong with
the drug treatment of type 2 diabetes. After hitting the market in 1999,
a 2007 study in the New England Journal of Medicine linked it to a 43
percent increased risk of heart attack, and a 64 percent higher risk of
cardiovascular death, compared to patients treated with other methods!

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/artic ... _DNL_art_3

Hennie

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Op 4-9-2011 2:27, John Harvey schreef:

[Secret Pal]

Honestly, I don't trust any of the drugs that are out there unless they are natural. I don't trust the FDA or the pharmacuticals when taking any type of drugs, especially antibiotics. Which is why I started researching for natural cures and natural remedies.

I have read somewhere that there are cures/treatments for every type of diseases/virus including HIV. And these are non-invasive and safe compared to the typical treatments.

Thank you for sharing this link. My cousin has diabetes and I will forward this to her.

--- On Wed, 9/7/11, Hennie Duits wrote: