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Mickey Z
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Saturday, March 19, 2005
The best science money can buy (a pre-Meatout lesson)
Tomorrow is the Great American Meatout and from Veg Source (via Joanne G., who says: “I really don’t think capitalists have souls.") we learn: “a study claiming that feeding a vegan diet to children is tantamount to ‘child abuse’ was paid for by the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association.”
You can read the full story here:
http://www.vegsource.com/articles2/ncbs_vegan_study.htm
http://www.prwatch.org/books/experts.html
Related to the above story, I’m posting a link to something I wrote a while back:
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles/MickeyZ_Malpractice.htm
Here’s an excerpt:
In their book, “Trust Us, We’re Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future,” authors Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber discuss the vast amount of time that “a modern researcher spends writing grant proposals; coddling department heads; corporate donors, and government bureaucrats; or engaging in any of the other activities that are necessary to obtain research funding.” The influence of this money on research can result in the suppression of certain studies while corporations commission writers to pen favorable articles in peer-reviewed journals. A study of the relationship of pharmaceutical industry funding and research conclusions about calcium-channel blockers was published in 1998 in the New England Journal of Medicine. After examining 70 articles on the drug, researchers found that 96 percent of the authors of favorable articles had financial ties to manufacturers of calcium-channel blockers. One year later, the editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, Drummond Rennie, complained that the “influence of private funding on medical research has created ‘a race to the ethical bottom.’”
Government agencies have also become bottom dwellers: “Pharmaceutical companies are big campaign finance contributors having given $44 million over the last ten years,” explains Dr. Ray Greek, president of Americans For Medical Advancement. “Food and Drug Administration scientists who approve drugs or decide upon regulations are also current, past or future employees of the drug industry. They are inextricably tied to the industry that they are supposed to be policing. What this means is that the FDA is effectively financed and staffed by the pharmaceutical industry. The agency ‘works for’ the industry, not for consumers, because consumers are not making campaign contributions; nor are they arbiters of job security.”
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