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 The answer is there's a pattern here -- a pattern of suppression of negative results. When you combine this with some of the other actions that Merck has engaged in (which have been discussed in detail on this site) and some of which has been revealed in e-mails published by the Wall Street Journal, it paints a bigger picture. What's about to follow in this essay is my own personal opinion and my own assessment of this bigger picture.
In my opinion this is a pattern of suppressing negative information about Vioxx in order to protect profits. |
| In those rare circumstances where reality overpowers the design of the study and the negative effects are quite apparent, many companies go out of their way to suppress or cover up those findings and distance themselves from those study results. We've seen in many cases how these companies have attempted to suppress the publication of these studies or have threatened the careers of scientists who have administered studies that produced negative findings.
Drug researchers know if they don't produce positive results, they are very likely to find themselves out of work. |
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 The second test came back negative.
We see this happening quite frequently -- the second test being negative. They say, "Well, the first test must have been a false positive," and then my theory is that they find some way to distort the test and falsify the results. Sure enough, the second test comes back negative -- no mad cow disease. If you test a cow enough times, you'll eventually get a negative result... especially if you intend for the results to come out that way. |
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 But you'll notice that the USDA never proclaims a negative result on this initial low-cost screening to be inconclusive -- it's simply called "negative" and it doesn't bother with any other testing. In other words, this testing system is frighteningly unscientific. If the first test is so inaccurate as to be considered inconclusive by the USDA, then how does it know that a negative result on the first test is sound?
Perhaps a negative result is also inconclusive and this test is completely useless. |
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| Daniel Solomon and Jerry Avorn of Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, who explain that even though Merck funded and designed the study they were working on, once the study found negative results and was about to go to publication, Merck pulled their association from the study and then sought to discredited by insisting that a Merck employee remove her name from the study.
Now, you might say, "Well, this seems like just one more case of a drug company trying to skew the results of a study after the fact, but what does it mean in the big picture? |
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 Normally I don't submit negative reviews for publication, but in this case, this product is so widely publicized that I consider it a public service to warn people. Also, as you may have guessed, I'm not paid anything by the manufacturer of this product to write this review. |
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| It also occurs to me that Merck was well aware of the dangerous nature of Vioxx years before they ultimately decided to pull it off the market, and it appears the company was engaged in a consistent, conscious effort to discredit negative information about the drug. This influence extended well into the FDA, where people like drug researcher Dr. David Graham now say they were threatened with being fired if they didn't go along with the FDA's wishes to approve this drug and keep it on the market. |
| In both cases, drug companies were well aware of the negative side effects of these drugs and yet chose, for their own reasons, to avoid going public with the information. It's probably not difficult to imagine what those reasons might have been.
It’s interesting to note that two years ago, when I was saying much of the same thing you're reading here, my views were considered extreme. Today this position on Big Pharma, and the corruption of the FDA, and the suppression of scientific evidence, is quite widely recognized as the way things really operate in the world of medicine. |
Nontoxic, Natural and EarthwiseDebra Lynn Dadd
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| It is important not to generate too many negative ions because there is a possibility that your body will absorb negative ions faster than they can be discharged, resulting in a buildup of negative ions on your skin. When this happens, you will begin to attract positive ions, which is just what you don't want. If you want to experiment with this, try a variable-output negative-ion generator and place it in different locations. You should be able to feel the difference as you search for its optimal spot. You can order negative-ion generators by mail from Nigra Enterprises. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Currently, drug companies can bury negative drug trials, and the FDA has in fact been caught conspiring with drug companies to keep negative drug data secret from the public.)
93 percent think that the FDA should have the power to demand follow-up safety studies from drug companies. Currently, the FDA has no authority to require follow-up safety studies on drugs after they are introdued to the market. This is a serious oversight shortfall, given that many problems with drugs only appear after widespread use. (Patients are widely used as guinea pigs in any new drug launch. |
Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Most studies reported in the medical literature have been overwhelmingly positive, but some negative reports can also be found. These contradictions promote distrust by doctors. In most cases, negative research results can be directly attributed to inadequate research protocols. For example, researchers may use doses that are too small. They may administer coenzyme Qio in forms that are not absorbed by the intestine, so it never reaches the blood or affected tissue. Nonetheless, these research results are published. |
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| Currently, drug companies can bury negative drug trials, and the FDA has in fact been caught conspiring with drug companies to keep negative drug data secret from the public.)
93 percent think that the FDA should have the power to demand follow-up safety studies from drug companies. Currently, the FDA has no authority to require follow-up safety studies on drugs after they are introdued to the market. This is a serious oversight shortfall, given that many problems with drugs only appear after widespread use. (Patients are widely used as guinea pigs in any new drug launch. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 On the other side of the water molecule, the oxygen atom has a slight negative charge that is attracted to the positively charged sodium ions. The water molecules cluster around the sodium ions with the oxygen sides of the water molecules facing the sodium ion. This is how water dissolves salts.
Ions are charged particles. Positive ions, such as sodium ions are called cations. Negatively charged ions, such as chloride, are called anions. This is easier to remember if you think of the "t" in cations as being similar to a "+" sign. |
Ann N. Martin
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 Rabies negative cattle. Cattle condemned at slaughter for neurological disease. Non-ambulatory (down/fallen stock.)"17 All their tests proved negative for BSE.
The FDA claims that the United States is free from BSE. On the surface this would seem reassuring, however, the number of cattle brains tested for BSE is quite limited compared to the number of cattle slaughtered in any given time period. The Public Citizen, an organization that investigates problems within the government, notes, "In 2000, approximately 2,300 brains were tested out of 35 million cattle slaughtered. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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| The chloride ion has a single negative charge. Table salt is sodium chloride.
Chloride is an essential nutrient. Chloride is the principal anion (negatively charged ion) in the extracellular fluid. Chloride is an electrolyte that works with sodium to maintain the cellular membrane potential. These electrolytes contribute to the maintenance of charge differences across cellular membranes.
Hydrochloric acid in the stomach is made with chloride.
Chloride is a component of hydrochloric acid (HC1). |
Stacy Malkan
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 The difference in approach can be seen in the way the two continents regulate cosmetics: The EU law has negative ingredient lists (of banned chemicals) and specific testing and data requirements for cosmetic ingredients. In contrast the US has few ingredient restrictions and the manufacturers are responsible for testing. "The EU model is taking over the world." Many countries have reproduced aspects of the EU Cosmetics Directive: approximately 50 countries have adopted the EU cosmetic definition; about 30 countries have adopted the EU "negative ingredient" lists. |
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| We see this happening quite frequently -- the second test being negative. They say, "Well, the first test must have been a false positive," and then my theory is that they find some way to distort the test and falsify the results. Sure enough, the second test comes back negative -- no mad cow disease. If you test a cow enough times, you'll eventually get a negative result... especially if you intend for the results to come out that way. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 If the body is burning up more calories simply to maintain its basic functions, a person may more easily obtain a negative calorie balance and achieve weight loss. However, the potential weight-loss benefit from caffeine is minimal, especially if the beverage containing caffeine is consumed with foods containing sugar.
Several negative effects have been attributed to excessive caffeine intake. These include increased urination, diarrhea, insomnia, anxiety, heartburn, and irritability. The amount of caffeine that leads to each of these symptoms varies with the individual. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 In the normal course of chemical engineering, such by-products are little more than an annoying negative value that must be factored into projected output yields. The negative impact of dioxin, however, has taken years to estimate, complicated by the confirmation of many of its additional and terrible effects in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. Some of these include cancer, immune system abnormalities, and birth defects in the offspring of those contaminated.
Dioxin exposure almost always occurs through trace contamination; in concentrated, pure form, dioxin has no commercial applicarions. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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 You are just indulging in negative thinking. I will help you change those thoughts to something more positive."
"Not so fast," claims the right side. "I am just doing the bidding of my feelings. I am not being irrational; on the contrary, I am responding realistically to those feelings that you cannot even see. It is you who are being irrational. You want me to deny my inner truth. I can't do that in good conscience. Speaking of conscience: I will leave it to you to perform that function. I've got impulses to deal with. |
Bill Sardi
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 Proceedings Society Experimental Biology Medicine 217:30-7, 1998]
Alcohol, folic acid and breast cancer
Higher folic acid intake reduces the risk of developing estrogen receptor negative breast cancer. Ensuring adequate folate (folic acid) intake seems particularly important for women at higher risk of breast cancer because of alcohol consumption. [Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers Prevention 14: 2004-8, 2005]
The risk of breast cancer is slightly elevated among alcohol drinkers who consume less than 300 meg of folic acid per day. |
| It's hoped the findings will lead to biotechnological treatment of cancer that would be more effective than radiation chemotherapy, and without the negative side effects she said.
Dr. Jim Wright is the third member of the team.
The scientists, who work out of the Manitoba Institute of Cell Biology, are funded by the Terry Fox Program of the National Cancer Institute of Canada.
Turley said all the travel and attention in recent months has been overwhelming.
The discovery was written up in yesterday's edition of Cell Magazine, the most prestigious biomedical sciences journal in the world. |
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| After about a month I began to feel differently, more energetic, less negative. My sessions began to change. I would experience one feeling at a time and not any longer have 10 feelings popping up at once. After a feeling it would take me five, 10, sometimes 30 minutes, and then I felt that I actually was out of the feeling. I had closed down! That had never happened to me before. It made me able to really, on the third line, think about my feeling experiences and to integrate them. I found myself less easily triggered in my life. |
| Depression is life in the trough, not an attitude or a series of negative ideas. It is being immersed in one's history and not being able to get out of it. Worse, it is not knowing one has sunk into that history.
Ideas arrived millions of years after instincts and feelings. Ideas are not the problem; they signal the problem, providing the words for it all. The suffering system is one of the most ancient in the brain. Monkeys suffer but can't describe it in words. Humans can. But primates and humans suffer in the same way with pretty much the same brain structures. |
Jack Challem
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 Because so many people have a negative attitude toward the very word exercise, we almost always recommend increased physical activity. We hope this chapter motivates you to get moving with either a regular habit of physical activity or a more structured exercise program. Combined with better eating habits and taking supplements, greater physical activity will give you the upper hand in controlling your blood sugar, insulin, and weight.
Are we trying to trick you into exercising by using a more palatable term? |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 Similarly, a discussion on managing menopausal symptoms published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2006 identified mixed but primarily negative evidence for the effectiveness of Black Cohosh in regard to its ability to improve the frequency or severity of menopausal hot flashes. The author points out that Black Cohosh could possibly bind estrogen receptors and pose the same risk for adverse outcomes that estrogen poses; studies have not been of size or duration to fully document the safety of Black Cohosh (Grady, 2006). |
Shannon Brownlee
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 We have a contact in the Wieliczka salt mine who can guarantee burial of negative results 200 metres underground . . . Our SAFE (Say Anything For a Euro) panel of experts is ready, at the drop of a banknote, to appear on television, chummy up to reporters, or write favourable commentaries in leading clinical journals."
What's not so funny about Sackett and Oxman's send-up of clinical trials is that the medical journals are filled with articles that appear to have adopted their methods. Here's just one example. |
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