Medical studies are being skewed by scientists with financial ties to drug manufacturers

‘There should never be a situation where a pharmaceutical company that has spent hundreds of millions of dollars – and sometimes billions – developing a new drug is allowed to conduct its own self-controlled clinical trials, because the financial incentives to skew the outcomes of those trials in the company’s favor are far too great.
And yet it happens all the time, according to a recent report by NPR.org.
The publicly funded broadcast company says that doctors often turn to specially crafted studies when they are attempting to understand what is often confusing and contradictory findings in scientific literature. That’s because such studies are considered to be the “gold standard” for research.’
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