October 15, 2009 in Fertility, Pregnancy & Childbirth, Food & Nutrition, Medical Industrial Complex |
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I want to get some Juno-inspired T-shirts printed up for researchers that say "What other kind of shenanigans can I get into?" Seriously. I cannot believe the stuff that gets published in medical journals these days. I don't know which is the scarier possibility: that the researchers are really so poorly trained that they consistently violate the most basic principles of medical research (that you probably learned in your 8th grade science class), ...
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November 13, 2008 in Heart Disease |
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If you read the papers or watch the news you've probably heard about the recently published JUPITER study, advertised with bold headlines such as "Cholesterol drug causes risk of heart attack to plummet" and "Cholesterol-fighting drug shows wider benefit". If you've been following this blog (and perhaps even if you haven't), you are by now aware that such claims cannot be taken at face value.
You might suspect, for example, that the study was sponsored by ...
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