Researchers from Harvard and the University of Melbourne identified physicians and scientists who had financial relationships with pharmaceutical companies named as defendants in U.S. Department of Justice off-label whistleblower complaints, then reviewed their subsequent three years’ publications for disclosures related to the off-label uses in question. Only 15% of published articles contained an adequate disclosure statement. The article appeared online August 7, 2012 in PLoS Medicine.
Article →Kesselheim, A., Wang, Bo, Studdert, D., Avorn, J (2012) “Conflict of Interest Reporting by Authors Involved in Promotion of Off-Label Drug Use: An Analysis of Journal Disclosures.” PLoS Medicine 9(8): e1001280 dpi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001280
Surely so many psychiatrists and psychologists who publish wouldn’t be deceitful whould they????? Please, oh please tell me that these wonderful people in the white coats and with diplomas on the wall aren’t dedeitful! Surely so many don’t have conflicts of interest, do they???????
The more you dig into all of this the worse it seems to get! And it’s all done at the expense of the people labeled as “mentally ill.” We are the ones paying the very high price for all of this lying. What bothers me is how many people can take money for printing lies and rubbish and then go home and look themselves in the face in the mirror and have no problems with what they’re doing. Where is their self-respect? I guess none of that matters when it comes to money.
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