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*Drug research routinely suppressed, study authors find*/

By Fauber of the Journal Sentinel

http://www.jsonline.com/features/health/drug-research-routinely-suppressed-study\

-authors-find-qd3kfnn-136625848.html

Drug research, even from clinical trials sponsored by the federal

government, routinely is suppressed, harming patients and increasing

health care costs, according to new data highlighting an ethical

controversy that continues to plague the field of medicine.

" The current situation is a disservice to research participants,

patients, health systems and the whole endeavor of clinical medicine, "

according to an editorial accompanying the papers published in the

British Medical Journal.

Turning up the heat, the journal, in an editorial, posed a remedy that

is likely to get the attention of doctors who take part in clinical

trial research.

" Concealment of data should be regarded as the serious ethical breach

that it is, and clinical researchers who fail to disclose data should be

subject to disciplinary action by professional organizations, " wrote

Lehman of the University of Oxford, and Loder, a BMJ

editor....

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See also:

*/Fraud Case Seen as a Red Flag for Psychology Research/*

By BENEDICT CAREY

Published: November 2, 2011

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/health/research/noted-dutch-psychologist-stape\

l-accused-of-research-fraud.html

A well-known psychologist in the Netherlands whose work has been

published widely in professional journals falsified data and made up

entire experiments, an investigating committee has found. Experts say

the case exposes deep flaws in the way science is done in a field,

psychology, that has only recently earned a fragile respectability....

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See also:

foia: */CDC collusion with " Pediatrics " regarding thimerosal//data/*

http://mercury-freedrugs.org/docs/111025_PR10_ScandalExposedInMajorStudyOfAutism\

Mercuryb.pdf

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