New study finds publication bias among trials submitted to FDA

New study finds publication bias among trials submitted to FDA

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A quarter of drug trials submitted in support of new drug applications to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) remain unpublished five years after the fact, says new research published in the open access journal PLoS Medicine.
Among those trials published, unexplained discrepancies between the FDA submissions and their corresponding publications—the addition or deletion of outcomes, changes in the statistical significance of reported outcomes, and changes in overall trial conclusion........

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Could there be any doubt that the people of this country, knee deep in debt, and spending so much of our money to allow us all to benefit from government responsible to the people; have been bamboozled nearly continuously since the FDA became corporate manned?

The profiteers in greedy Big Pharma have made this occurrence so commonplace, and so ignored, that we now 'accept' that 1/4 of all drugs we are prescribed may in fact be snake oil to which the FDA gave rubber stamp approval.

Why would they do this? What could the FDA gain? Nothing, that's why their corporate executives man the post... so that it CAN serve them, not us.

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