Friday, November 04, 2005

The truth about medical journals, and how drug companies exert heavy influence over published scientific articles Surprise! Surprise! Medical journals rely on Big Pharma's ads to pay the bills Can the medical journals be trusted to provide accurate, unbiased information about medicine even as they are almost entirely funded by drug companies? In her book, Vaccination, Peggy O'Mara writes that the current era of medical beliefs (or dogma) began to develop soon after Louis Pasteur's demonstration that some pathogens could be converted into vaccines. The medical community then decided to try the same method for all afflictions. Medical journals were soon afterward reporting the discovery of "miracle" vaccines for every disease under the sun, and drug companies were simultaneously advertising those vaccines on those very same pages.  read more here: http://www.newstarget.com/012119.html 2:39:36 PM    comment []

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