Merck Committed Scientific Fraud in Delays, Distortions of Vytorin Drug Trial (opinion)

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Merck Committed Scientific Fraud in Delays, Distortions of Vytorin Drug

Trial (opinion)

Wednesday, January 16, 2008 by: Mike

(NewsTarget opinion) The latest round of scientific fraud from Big Pharma

arrives in the form of yet more junk science conducted by Merck on its

blockbuster cholesterol drug Vytorin. Results of a clinical trial involving

the drug were finally released this week, nearly two years after they were

known by Merck, and only after Merck attempted to manipulate the data by

redefining the outcome of the trial after the fact!

To help explain the degree of scientific fraud happening with this Vytorin

clinical trial, I've released a sixty-second parody video ad featuring

Merck's Vytorin drug along with a narrative explanation of the fraud

surrounding Vytorin. You can watch the video here:

http://www.newstarget.com/022501.html

Deliberate Fraud: What Really Happened with Vytorin

Vytorin has been a top-selling cholesterol drug for several years,

generating billions of dollars in revenue for Merck and Schering-Plough.

Even though the drug was being prescribed to millions of people, nobody

really knew if it worked to remove plaque from arteries (which sort of

makes you wonder why it was approved in the first place, right?), so Merck

launched a clinical trial called ENHANCE to study the effectiveness of the

drug.

The ENHANCE study was completed in April, 2006, and the results were turned

over to Merck. As it turns out, Merck didn't like the results of the trial,

so instead of releasing them to the public (or the FDA), it sat on them,

delaying the release of this data while Vytorin sales continued to ring up

billions of dollars in sales.

After sitting on the data for over a year, Merck decided it would commit

scientific fraud and " redefine " the goal of the study after the fact! This

would involve selectively deciding which data points looked the best, and

then reshaping the goal of the study to fit the data. (How's that for

" evidence-based medicine? " The deeper you look into the so-called " science "

behind Big Pharma's pill-pushing agenda, the more you realize it's based on

nothing but fraud...)

When the scientific community got word of this after-the-fact redefinition

of the study, they were outraged and demanded that Merck abide by

established scientific guidelines. Merck then abandoned its plan to

manipulate the goal of the study and decided to sit on the data for several

more months.

Finally, after the threat of a Congressional investigation -- and spurred

by numerous critics accusing Merck of hiding undesirable study results --

the company agreed to release the results of the clinical trial. And what

did the results show? Nissen, head of cardiology at the Cleveland

Clinic, said, " This drug doesn't work. Period. It just doesn't work. ... In

fact, the data on both the rate of progression of atherosclerosis and

cardiovascular events are trending in the wrong direction. This is a pretty

clear failure. Physicians should now stop using ezetimibe or Vytorin except

as a last resort. "

In other words, the clinical trial results showed Vytorin to be a complete

failure at reducing arterial plaque. This brings up three hugely important

questions for modern medicine:

Question 1: Why was Vytorin approved by the FDA if it didn't work?

I find it curious that this test to determine whether Vytorin actually

works was being conducted after it was approved by the FDA, don't you? As

it turns out, all the millions of people who were prescribed Vytorin were

being used as human guinea pigs, shelling out their hard-earned cash for a

drug that was medically worthless. So why did the FDA approve Vytorin in

the first place? Doesn't the FDA require some kind of proof that the drug

works before approving it?

Of course not. You have to remember: The FDA operates as the marketing

branch of Big Pharma. It's sole purpose is to promote drugs, not to protect

the health of the public. The FDA approved Vytorin simply because Vytorin

was poised to be a huge profit generator. At the FDA, real science is not

nearly as important as big profits, and the agency maintains a default

position of trusting clinical trials funded by the drug companies

themselves! There's no real science going on at the FDA anymore (except in

the back rooms where real scientists like Dr. Graham are intimidated,

censored or fired from their jobs). Instead, the FDA has become Big

Pharma's pimp daddy, exploiting anyone it can to generate more obscene

profits for its favorite clients: The drug companies.

It all makes you wonder: Where is the " evidence " in evidence-based

medicine? The evidence, it seems, is all fiction. When drug companies are

allowed to sell drugs that don't work, and the scientific results are

allowed to be kept from the public for nearly two years, it's fairly

obvious that the whole system of FDA-approved medicine is nothing more than

a grand medical fraud.

The only people still defending this industry are idiots, crooks,

politicians or lawyers. (Some people are all four.) There is no

rational-minded person who could look at the behavior of Big Pharma and the

FDA today and conclude that modern pharmaceutical medicine is based on

anything resembling high-integrity science. This Vytorin debacle barely

scratches the surface. Remember: This is something they failed to cover up!

Imagine all the scientific trials that get buried, distorted or

retroactively modified without anyone ever knowing about it!

Watch my Vytorin parody video to see how hilarious this whole situation has

truly become:

http://www.newstarget.com/022501.html

Question 2: Why did Merck delay the release of the Vytorin clinical trial

results?

The answer to this one is so obvious that it boggles the mind: Merck

delayed release of the results because it knew that the minute the medical

community learned the truth about Vytorin, prescriptions for the drug would

plummet! And that, of course, would mean a drop in revenues and profits for

Merck.

The Vytorin results were delayed simply to keep everybody ignorant of the

fact that the drug didn't work! By keeping doctors, the FDA and the public

ignorant of this fact, Merck allowed literally millions of prescriptions to

be written for a drug that it already knew was clinically worthless at

reducing arterial plaque.

Does anybody honestly think that if the Vytorin trial had showed extremely

positive results, Merck wouldn't have released it immediately? Of course

they would have! If this trial showed Vytorin to dramatically reduce plaque

in the arteries while reducing deaths from heart attacks and strokes, Merck

would have touted the study results way back in 2006. The fact that they

intentionally delayed the release of this data just goes to show you that

at Merck, it's not patients that come first... it's profits!

Question 3: If Vytorin lowers cholesterol but doesn't reduce arterial

plaque, then shouldn't medicine reconsider the idea that high cholesterol

causes arterial plaque?

The whole thinking behind Vytorin is that lowering LDL cholesterol would

reduce the buildup of arterial plaque. Modern medicine has operated for

over two decades on the myth that says cholesterol is solely responsible

for atherosclerosis (plaque in the arteries).

Well what if that idea was, in fact, complete nonsense?

As practitioners of natural medicine have known for decades, cholesterol is

not the evil disease-causing culprit it's made out to be by Big Pharma.

High cholesterol is not a disease! Cholesterol is, in fact, an essential

substance manufactured by the body in response to chronic circulatory

inflammation caused by other things: Like eating red meat, fried foods,

hydrogenated oils or processed foods. Cholesterol doesn't actually cause

plaque in the arteries, and in fact this new ENHANCE study demonstrates

that quite well: Vytorin caused a significant drop in LDL cholesterol

levels, but arterial plaque actually began to increase!

The drug companies, however, love to promote simplistic explanations for

diseases -- especially ones that can be reduced to a single number, like

your cholesterol score. That way, they can define a " disease " as being a

number that's too high, and then they can claim to " treat " the disease by

giving you a chemical that causes the number to drop.

That way, they can even produce test results that convince you their drug

is working. " See? Your number is lower now. The drug works! "

Big Pharma loves the idea of reducing medical treatments to one-dimensional

number-pushing games that completely overlook the complexities of human

biology. High cholesterol wasn't even considered a disease, by the way,

until the drug companies started marketing cholesterol drugs and engaging

in aggressive disease mongering to convince the public that their

cholesterol numbers were too high.

The way to naturally lower your cholesterol numbers, by the way, is to

simply stop eating all animal products and processed foods. A plant-based

diet will radically improve your cardiovascular health, removing plaque,

normalizing cholesterol levels and dramatically reducing your risk of heart

attack or stroke.

Read the book, Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease by Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn

to learn the shocking truth about how easy it is to normalize your

cardiovascular health through simple dietary changes (no drugs needed!).

Conclusion: Vytorin fraud demonstrates lack of scientific integrity in the

pharmaceutical industry today

If there's one thing to take away from this whole fiasco, it's that when it

comes to pharmaceuticals, you simply can't trust the science anymore.

Let me repeat that: You can't trust the science anymore!

There's so much fraud, distortion, corruption, misrepresentation,

exaggeration and outright lying by drug companies and the FDA that the

whole drug-pushing industry comes down to nothing but sophisticated (and

profitable) quackery. The biggest quacks in the history of medicine are,

without question, the drug companies operating today.

If you haven't already, be sure to check out my video parody at

http://www.newstarget.com/022501.html which makes fun of this outright

quackery.

So where does this put us? It means that any person choosing to use

pharmaceuticals is playing the role of a human guinea pig, carrying out the

medical experiments of the richest corporations in the world, while paying

for it all the while!

It also means the entire foundation of modern medicine is a cruel hoax,

rotten at the core, based on nothing more than wishful thinking and

manipulative marketing.

It means that the doctors who have been prescribing these pills are fools.

They've been easily manipulated by Big Pharma money, dazzled by distorted

science, and transformed into puppet profit generators.

It means that pharmaceutical medicine (if you can even call it that) is

finally being exposed as the grand fraud it has truly become.

Intelligent people have already largely turned away from drug-based

medicine, realizing that the only medicines that are safe, effective and

affordable are those medicines provided by Mother Nature in the form of

herbs, foods, superfoods and phytonutrients. Mother Nature doesn't need to

conduct fraudulent science to market her medicines -- they work naturally!

Mother Nature needs no patent protection, no television ads, no defense

attorneys and no bribery for her medicine. It simply works naturally and

automatically, without asking for anything in return.

That's why informed consumers are turning to natural medicine. Only

uninformed, ignorant consumers continue to rely on pharmaceuticals today.

And my prediction? Most of those people are going to pay for their

ignorance with their lives. Even though the causes of death will likely be

listed as " natural causes, " the truth is that most people who routinely

take pharmaceuticals are ultimately killed by them through the failure of

internal organs damaged by such drugs -- usually the liver, heart, pancreas

or kidneys.

What Big Pharma has done -- and continues to do -- to human beings in North

America and around the world is nothing less than an atrocious crime

against humanity. That crime remains, as yet, unpunished. But I believe

there will come a day when the backlash against these drug companies will

be unleashed, and when that happens, even God will not be able to help

these Big Pharma CEOs escape the terrible punishment likely to be inflicted

upon them by four outraged generations of the People who have lost so much

life, health and happiness at the hands of these malicious drug companies

who have, at every opportunity, traded the People's lives for Pharma profits.

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About the author: Mike is a holistic nutritionist with a mission to

teach personal and planetary health to the public He has authored more than

1,500 articles and dozens of reports, guides and interviews on natural

health topics, impacting the lives of millions of readers around the world

who are experiencing phenomenal health benefits from reading his articles.

is an independent journalist with strong ethics who does not get paid

to write articles about any product or company. In 2007, launched

EcoLEDs, a maker of energy efficient LED lights that greatly reduce CO2

emissions. He also founded an environmentally-friendly online retailer

called BetterLifeGoods.com that uses retail profits to help support

consumer advocacy programs. He's also the CEO of a highly successful email

newsletter software company that develops software used to send permission

email campaigns to subscribers. volunteers his time to serve as the

executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a 501©3 non-profit

organization, and pursues hobbies such as Pilates, Capoeira, nature

macrophotography and organic gardening. Known on the 'net as 'the Health

Ranger,' shares his ethics, mission statements and personal health

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