Debunking the Recent Echinacea Study

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University of Virginia "Drug Whores" attack Echinacea...

Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen

Thursday, August 4th, 2005

I had a good laugh this last week. The University of Virginia Medical School showed the world how easy it is for "Big Pharma" to buy the appearance of science, from a University, with their so-called "Echinacea study."

Then the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) ran a pompous editorial on the subject by one of the best known, and laughable, CRACKPOTS in the US, Wallace Sampson MD.

Then the New York Ad agency (the one that runs the "quackbusters" ), sent out, to every media outlet in the US and Canada the story that "Echinacea had been discredited."

(Insert laughter here)

I love it when "Big Pharma" does something this dumb - and traceable back to them. It shows how weak, and afraid of the US "health" movement, they really are.

And the New England Journal of Medicine? Well, after all of the criticisms leveled, recently, against so-called "peer-reviewed" journals about "credibility," due to accusations of their "peer-review" being bought off by "Big Pharma," you'd think the editors would think twice, perhaps three times, about who they use to write editorials - but they didn't.

Wallace Sampson has been officially declared in a PUBLISHED Appeals Court decision, that any idiot (like an editor at NEJM) could find on the internet, to be "biased, and unworthy of credibility." More, the Court pretty much declared, officially, that Sampson, "scientifically," couldn't find his own back pocket with either hand. Read, by clicking here, the original Court statements about Sampson.

Apparently though, NEJM must have felt the need to emote pompous-ass-ity - because, with Sampson, they certainly did THAT... but, more likely, a New York agency pointed out to them just how many of the pages in the actual printed journal were bought by "Big Pharma."

rest at:

http://www.quackpotwatch.org/opinionpieces/echinaceahit.htm