Not So Wondrous Drugs? – New Warnings about Severe Adverse Effects of New, Heavily Marketed Drugs for Hepatitis C
Dangerous diseases like hepatitis C make it a bit too easy for drugmakers to peddle wonder cures….
Read more...Dangerous diseases like hepatitis C make it a bit too easy for drugmakers to peddle wonder cures….
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Read more...Why the Cambridge capital controversy is important yet almost never acknowledged: it’s too damaging to too many pet theories.
Read more...Big Pharma lies via medical publications, and the FDA shuts its eyes to this ruse in clinical trials. Time to put it to a stop.
Read more...Health care corruption is pervasive, yet remains a taboo topic.
Read more...Yves here. Some of the facts in this article are stunning. For instance, more Americans die from opoid overdose than from car accidents. And this article gives only a partial tally of Purdue Pharma’s predatory conduct. The drugmaker targeted overly-busy, not very well trained general practitioners in communities which were likely to have high incidence […]
Read more...Exposing Greg Mankiw’s basic economics textbook as an exercise in dogma.
Read more...How McKinsey contributed to the devolution of Big Pharma.
Read more...Exxon was not the only oil major that knew decades ago about global warming and chose to launch an agnotology campaign.
Read more...Economists, for the most part, resist the idea that economics can never be a scientific enterprise. Sadly, that posture has proven profitable for them.
Read more...In a likely violation of the Nuremberg Code, a study increased the sleep deprivation of medical residents above already-high current levels.
Read more...Sethi takes issue with a New York Times article that took the astonishing view that combatting bias would have little impact on the rate of police killings of blacks.
Read more...Why bioenergy is much more costly in environmental terms than its boosters would have us believe.
Read more...Contrary to what most consumers believe, the pro-GMO research that was presented as independent was paid for by Monsanto.
Read more...GMOs have had a hard time in Mexico.
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