Dr. Timothy Scott
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 Now that some of the psychiatric journals have adopted conflict of interest policies, we can get some idea about whether or not there are drug industry ties to the drug research. Are there? "Wow!" is the best answer. Here is the brief "declaration of interest" for one Psychiatric Bulletin article:
D. T. has received research funding from various manufacturers of atypical antipsychotics and the Department of Health, and consultancy fees and honoraria for presentations received from AstraZeneca, Janssen-Cilag, Novartis, Pfizer and Eli Lilly. S. M. |
| Committee members can receive up to $50,000 per year from a drug company for any reason without it being considered a financial conflict of interest if the "work" is not directly tied to the drug the committee is evaluating.34 Not until a committee member has stock holdings greater than $ 100,000 is exclusion expected to prevent participation in a drug's approval process.35
Despite the lack of openness concerning conflicts of interest, investigative reporters have been successful in gathering sufficient data to make it clear the system is extremely tainted today. |
| Those ten experts should have simply said they had a conflict of interest and felt it improper to vote. But then Vioxx would have been rejected by a vote of 8 to 14.32
The big question concerning this story is why did the FDA allow those panel members to vote on these drugs? The FDA knew what financial ties each member had with various drug companies. (They are required to disclose this information.) The fact is, the FDA just did not see a problem. |
Greg Critser
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 I will not accept money, gifts, or hospitality that will create a conflict of interest in my education, practice, teaching, or research."
Should these students ever be taken seriously — and there are growing signs that they are — their pledge would radically reshape physician continuing medical education, or CME. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 They have a major conflict of interest. Here is what I believe has happened.
The Federal Trade Commission sent out false and misleading press releases to news organizations all around the country trying to get people to run negative stories on me and my Natural Cures book because it became the fastest selling book in American history where tens of millions of people were exposed to the shocking truth and dirty little secrets about the drug industry and the food industry. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Because they have a clear conflict of interest. It is obviously in the interest of pharmaceutical companies to have more customers, and the way they have more customers is to find more and more people with diseases (or to redefine "disease" so that suddenly more people are diagnosed with something). If you get your health information from a company that profits from disease and loses profits when people get healthy, you're very unlikely to hear information from them that's going to make you healthier. |
Luca Turin
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 This is the single most important thing wrong with contemporary science: when a field is specialized enough, only people who have a conflict of interest can fully judge your work. The ideal referee would be an honest broker who (a) knows enough to figure out for herself what the story is about while (b) not caring passionately enough about the outcome to find her judgement affected. The last twenty years have seen the disappearance of honest brokers, because science has become more specialized and people do not have the time to read outside their field unless they want to forgo their career. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 So there's no conflict of interest, and there's no solicitation of advertisers.
2. Does the publication in question send you subscription offers disguised to look like invoices or bills? Many magazines and newspaper use this dishonest tactic to trick people into thinking they owe money when, in reality, they do not. Any publication stooping to this trick is blatantly demonstrating its own lack of ethics. Its content, therefore, cannot be trusted.
3. Does the publication in question interrupt you with excessive, annoying ads? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It is an obvious and potentially deadly conflict of interest that must be immediately rooted out and eliminated. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 FDA advisory boards (what were the other 40 percent thinking?). Currently, doctors who earn hundreds of thousands of dollars each year in "consulting fees" from drug companies are not only allowed to vote on the recommendations for FDA approval of their drugs, there is not even any FDA requirement to disclose such conflicts of interest. (See related cartoon on FDA Conflicts of Interest)
New rules proposed by the FDA would reduce this level of corruption by allowing doctors to receive a maximum of $50,000 per year from companies impacted by their decisions. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| Feingold contends that the conflict of interest arises because these companies would suffer economically if food additives were found to be harmful. Other countries have significantly restricted the use of artificial food additives because of possible harmful effects discovered in studies conducted outside the United States. to be of great benefit in patients with hives and other allergic conditions such as asthma and eczema. Obviously, people suffering from allergic conditions should eliminate artificial food colors from their diets. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And, I think it is a great conflict of interest for anyone to both write about a nutritional supplement and sell that same nutritional supplement. It doesn't mean that they're wrong. It just means that their information must be taken in context.
I encourage you and other readers to live day-to-day with that kind of skepticism. We should all be skeptics of people who are trying to sell us products, especially if it's drugs or herbs or vitamins, because anything can have an element of hype or exaggeration to it. |
Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels
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 Brundtland wrote back saying "there should be no conflict of interest in our partnership with private industry," though concerns about the way the WHO develops guidelines remain.
Back at White Rock, British Columbia, Bob Rangno and James McCormack have just finished explaining that a hypothetical heart medication might lower someone's risk from 3 percent to 2 percent. |
Michele Simon
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 That's why CCF uses nonexistent violent threats to avoid disclosing the group's conflict of interest. Of course CCF knows this threat is a sham since director Rick Berman doesn't appear on television in disguise or use a pseudonym when talking to the media.19
Another curious thing about front groups like CCF is that food corporations can derive benefits from their slithery PR work without even paying for it. As Northeastern law professor Richard Daynard notes, the "smart folks" in the food business are happy to take advantage of the so-called free rider effect. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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 Although there was nothing illegal about any of these activities, it certainly laid bare a serious conflict of interest that put most of the committee members at odds with the public interest.
This is analogous to the situation, as it unfolded, surrounding cigarettes and health. When scientific evidence first emerged to show that cigarettes were dangerous, there were hordes of health professionals who vigorously defended smoking. |
Joseph E. Mario
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 Doctors have a conflict of interest in prescribing dangerous drugs for profit. The system of marketing drugs in America is harmful to the interests of the public, causes injuries and death; drug-resistant supergerms kill over 100,000 victims per rv rt year. By overusing penicillin many organisms became resistant to it, and doctors administer powerful new drugs. Soon the germs are resistantto the new drugs. |
| The problem involves conflict of interest between drug companies' advertising, medical journals'aversion to dissent about their paid advertisers, and professional j ealousies over business monopoly and credentials; although historically, dissent over interpretations of data eventually clarify scientific truths if there is equal access forthe participants. |
Mike Adams
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 April 20, 2006
A study of financial ties between researchers and pharmaceutical companies found that more then 50% of the experts working on the DSM had a clear financial tie I conflict of interest either just before, during or after their involvement in defining mental illness for the health profession at large.
I believe that every human being has the right to have open access to information that helps them be healthier human beings. This is information that can help them end their suffering, end their chronic pain, and end their degenerative diseases. |
| Topol was apparently told that the position of academic officer, which also gave him a seat on the clinic's board of governors and conflict of interest committee, had been eliminated just two days after he testified at a federal Vioxx trial that Merck was guilty of scientific misconduct, according to an editorial appearing in The New York Times, December 10, 2005. |
| Additional reading and news articles on the FDA:
The following summaries of NewsTarget articles and articles from other groups focused on the FDA give further insight into the ongoing problems of conflict of interest and endangering of the public interest. All of these articles are free to read online.
Death By Regulation www.LEF.org/magazine/mag2005/mar2005_awsi_01.htm
Free Speech and Dietary Supplements: A health freedom speech by Rep. Ron Paul www.NewsTarget.com/019382.html
Stop the FDAwww.StopFDA.org
Anti-Constitutional Activities and Abuse of Police Power by the U.S. |
James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
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 This department has what many would call a "conflict of interest." It represents the food industry and is in charge of developing policy for and educating consumers about nutrition. Look at the emphasis on the number of servings of bread rice, cereal, and pasta. These are exactly the types of foods that, for the most part, are eaten in excess and that contribute to weight problems, heart disease, and many other insulin-associated conditions. Another problem is that the USDA sparingly recommends fats and oils. |
Kelly Patricia O'Meara
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 What the public did not know at the time of the vote by the esteemed panel of mental-health experts was that wholly one-half of the committee members had active professional and financial interests in the pharmaceutical companies that manufactured the very drugs the committee was investigating, and five of the seven votes made against a label change came from the experts with a conflict of interest. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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 There is, instead, a fundamental conflict of interest inherent in present standard modes of generation and interpretation of product safety and related data by scientists employed directly or indirectly by the same industry which manufactures the particular product. |
| One day he took off his lawyer's hat and moved to FDA, and became Deputy Commissioner of FDA, and then, in blatant conflict of interest, wrote regulations banning the labeling of rBGH milk.
A: Let's try to sum up here. What would you like to see done? What do you think government should be doing, what do you think citizens should be doing in order to bring this issue to the forefront and start taking this seriously? |
Kevin Trudeau
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| This is the major conflict of interest no one wants to talk about. You simply cannot believe and trust doctors. It is imperative that you always get multiple opinions.
A perfect example of this is the story I heard of the man who was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He went to a doctor and was told he needed surgery. The doctor he went to was a surgeon. This is how the doctor makes his money. The more surgeries he performs, the more money he makes. The surgeon said that nothing else would cure his prostate cancer. The patient sought a second opinion. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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| A major, behind the scenes, acknowledged contributor to the publication was Susan Sechen, a graduate student of Bauman, who flagrantly violated FDA conflict of interest regulations by publishing articles in support of Monsanto and rBGH while still an FDA employee.
¦ The references for all FDA's claims of safety of rBGH and rBGH milk were based on some 16 unpublished confidential industry studies.
¦ Contrary to previously published data, FDA claimed that there were no biological differences between rBGH and BGH, and between rBGH and BGH milk. |
Greg Critser
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| In this great circus of synergy, there remained, of course, the ongoing conflict of interest: Was Merck pushing Medco to favor its own products over lesser-priced rivals? There was preliminary evidence that the company was doing just that, but regulators at the time were not interested in the subject. The FTC, which governs such concerns, was largely quiescent, content to let the company regulate itself in exchange for written promises that it would not cross the line. To the few who pushed the issue, Gilmartin responded, "We will always have a policy of independence for Medco. |
Michele Simon
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| While past clients have included the likes of McDonald's and the Snack Food Association, the company promised there would be no conflict of interest.
So what did U.S. taxpayers get for their $2.5 million? Reactions from nutrition experts to the curious graphic—featuring little more than a few variously colored triangular segments alongside a stick figure climbing stairs—have been swift and unequivocal: the new "MyPyramid" is certainly no better and may even be worse than the old version. |
| Usually the amount of money a school district receives is dependent on soda sales, thus creating a conflict of interest between health and profit. In addition to soda, schools sell chips, candy, cakes, cookies, you name it. One angry parent sent me a photo of her child's school store that looked like the inside of a candy shop.
Not willing to take it anymore, from Philadelphia to Seattle, from California to Connecticut, parents, teachers, policy makers, and advocates are organizing to take back their schools from the clutches of Coke and Pepsi. |
| What Governor Rell failed to mention in her veto message was a possible conflict of interest: the cofounder of Coca-Cola's lobbying firm, Patricia LeShane, served as the governor's campaign advisor.17 Also, the LeShane lobbying firm contributed to Rell's successful 2002 campaign for lieutenant governor.18 The lobbying money spent fighting this bill was so influential that it motivated the state's Senate President Pro Tern Donald Williams Jr. (a strong proponent of the nutrition bill) to take concerted action for the first time on campaign finance reform.
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