http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/02/fda_inspections_fraud_fabrication_and_scientific_misconduct_are_hidden_from.single.html

Agents of the Food and Drug Administration know better than anyone else just how bad scientific misbehavior can get. Reading the FDA’s inspection files feels almost like watching a highlights reel from a Scientists Gone Wild video. It’s a seemingly endless stream of lurid vignettes—each of which catches a medical researcher in an unguarded moment, succumbing to the temptation to do things he knows he really shouldn’t 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 isn’t shocking. What is: When the FDA finds scientific fraud or misconduct, the agency doesn’t 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 wasn’t 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 was—and how much important information the FDA was keeping under wraps.

The silence is unbroken even when the FDA itself seems shocked at the degree of fraud and misconduct.

We didn’t have to search very hard to find FDA burying evidence of research misconduct. Just look at any document related to an FDA inspection. As part of the new drug application process, or, more rarely, when the agency gets a tipoff of wrongdoing, the FDA sends a bunch of inspectors out to clinical sites to make sure that everything is done by the book. When there are problems, the FDA generates a lot of paperwork—what are called form 483s, Establishment Inspection Reports, and in the worst cases, what are known as Warning Letters. If you manage to get your hands on these documents, you’ll see that, most of the time, key portions are redacted: information that describes what drug the researcher was studying, the name of the study, and precisely how the misconduct affected the quality of the data are all blacked out. These redactions make it all but impossible to figure out which study is tainted. My students and I looked at FDA documents relating to roughly 600 clinical trials in which one of the researchers running the trial failed an FDA inspection. In only roughly 100 cases were we able to figure out which study, which drug, and which pharmaceutical company were involved. (We cracked a bunch of the redactions by cross-referencing the documents with clinical trials data, checking various other databases, and using carefully crafted Google searches.) For the other 500, the FDA was successfully able to shield the drugmaker (and the study sponsor) from public exposure.

I assure you if you google many meds and the side effects and what they do to your organs... you will not take many of them..

My husband who died had a prescription given and then the doc said to wait and give back the box as the doc alone was to see all the side affects from the drug. I said I think I need to see it and so does my husband, but the doc got mad. Later I found out alot of his behaviour was caused from the drug though he blamed it on me.

i don't take any of them... i just can't take pills

prescription meds kill more people than heroin and coke combined... i've seen lots of people "change" after taking meds...


most all the "group" killers, people killing a bunch of people at once, 99% of the killers were on some kind of anti depression or anti psychotic at the time of the killings...

Haven't had to see my Doctor since I was 33. So that's a good 9 years ago Moe. Fit as a fiddle mate!

good for you, doctors are not always the know everything people... most of the ones i've seen don't do any tests, but are prescribing something anyway...

3 1/2 years taking hydrocodone for pain, a common codeine based pain killer, same script, no increases or dosage boosts and it works for me.

Now, due to new Florida laws, they want to take me off my meds that work to put me on Morphine or Methadone. I refuse to take either being a former addict, but the govt it seems has more say in the matter than I or my Dr...... my Dr is delaying/fighting the change for me.

This is the VA under new rules and new laws

I really don't know much about the drug industry. But I do know one thing.

The world did not need a super strong extremely habit forming new drug such as oxycodone. Which is now dispensed like candy from doctors.

The drug industry knew full well of the addictiveness of this drug and the FDA did as well.. but it hit the market... and is now sold on most street corners to people from all walks of life.. who have to have it.

So who is the real drug pushers?.. My money is on the drug companies

Had testicular cancer Moe when I was 32 and thankfully beat it mate. They class you in remission after that and that was the last time I saw my Doctor Moe.

Normally, I do not either I'm on supplements.. which have helped me a lot...

But due to a neck injury this last year.. at times I have to take muscle relaxers and pain pills to help out on the days I can not tolerate it...

Other then those a couple days a week if I have too. I do not take anything else..

They actually gave me a nerve pill to take for the pain. After I googled it and all the side effects I refused to take it.. It was so addicting you could not just quit it.. I did not take even one.

sad thing is that that's just the side effects they know of...or have to report... there could be lots more because they didn't meet the FDA's guidelines on side effects...

Ohh I'm sure, but heck if most read what all the side effects are.. It may change a few minds on taken what a Dr. throws your way..Instead of looking to see what could they change in eating ect to fix the problem the natural way.

I have never been one to take pills.. In the last few years I started taking vitamins and a few other supplements. And I can tell the difference they have made..

Last year the Dr. gave me pills for high cholesterol, filled them took one. The next day I had a real bad headache and sick to my stomach.. I never get headaches unless something is wrong.. Never took another one.. Looked it up on the internet, both of those symptoms were some of the milder side effects.

That was enough for me to chunk that bottle too..

TxsGal...Have you looked into Laser?
It is noninvasive and very effective for reducing pain and healing.

Having to go through the steps with injections right now.. Already told them that pills is not a option for me.. But still have to use them once in a while in order to find what will work.. I will ask them about Laser.

Not sure your MD will recommend laser, usually a physiotherapist or a chiropractor. Check it out, I know it works!
Here is a link you might find useful. Good luck!

http://www.bioflexlaser.com/practitioners/clinics/clinic-locations.php#USA

Since Obozocare, most Doctors are nothing more than expensive pill pushers working for BIG PHARMA.

The govt regulates medical costs, treatments, doctors, locations, charges. The medical field is nothing more than corporate run, govt controlled, big business any more. Another major part of our personal life touched by govt and failed beyond repair.....like most everything govt touches to "fix".

There is no more Dr/patient privacy, and now your Dr is asking questions like "Is there a gun in the house?" at the same time they dispense the psychotropic drugs they are forced to give you.

And they wonder why the world is going bonkers?!

>>>>>Experience and the law of unintended consequences suggest the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" will neither protect patients nor make health services affordable. Actual caring will resemble that of the U.S. Postal Service. Servi...ces will be rationed and denied in arbitrary manner after long waiting, as in other countries with government health systems. Advocacy groups will institute something like a 'disease-of-the-month-club,' to apply political pressure to cover various conditions. In short, decisions which ought to be made by patients and physicians will instead be made by cold, distant bureaucracies. Switzerland has a market-based system which works. Care there is as good as in the US at 58% of the per capita cost. Such a system was not even considered here, because the goal is government control, not accessible, affordable or quality care.<<<<<

written by a Friend of mine,Medical Doctor,licensed to practice in the US and Switzerland,so is familiar with both Systems!

Sounds like you Guys are in a bind over there!

Here Doctors prescribe Medications they think is best for a Patient!
Government has NO input on that Matter!

Only meds I'm prescribed are
blood thinner, blood pressure, and emergency nitro...

Such is life after a heart attack or two.

Outside of those, that I take to merely stay alive, I won't even take Tylenol.