How Fake Patients are used to Approve Drugs

Selling Marked Up Drugs With Made Up Patients–Part 1
By Martha Rosenberg
opednews.com

Excerpts:

It’s happened to anyone who’s attended an open-mike session at an FDA advisory committee hearing. A queue of “patients” materializes out of nowhere to testify, often in tears, about the crucial need for approval of a drug the public has often not even heard […]

Pfizer Sued for Consumer Fraud over Antidepressant – Suit Claims Drug No More Effective than Placebo

by Linda A. Johnson
Associated Press – usatoday.com

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The maker of Zoloft is being sued in an unusual case alleging the popular antidepressant has no more benefit than a dummy pill and that patients who took it should be reimbursed for their costs.

R. Brent Wisner of the Los Angeles firm Baum Hedlund Aristei Goldman, argues the Food […]

If Psychology Isn’t “Science,” Neither is Darwinian Evolution

So, if “Psychology Isn’t Science”…
by Bruce Chapman
Evolution News and Views

Every so often an article appears taking psychologists to task for claiming the purple mantle of “science.” As Alex B. Berezow explains in the Los Angeles Times, in the latest of such articles, the rules of science are strict.

“Psychology isn’t science,” he contends, “because psychology often […]