It is no secret that the pharmaceutical industry is a racket, but what many people do not know is that doctors everywhere are the ones facilitating that racket. Particularly academic doctors rake in tens of millions of dollars a year from Big Pharma while, as Sensible Medicine puts it:
"... simultaneously writing guidelines that mandate the use of these drugs, and simultaneously prescribing them to desperate sick patients who want an objective opinion, but get a biased one instead."
A closer look at the National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines reveals that upwards of 85 percent of guideline writers accept cash from the pharmaceutical industry and its representatives.
Prof. Vinay Prasad says that ASCO, "our annual meeting" as he calls it, "is less about the objective appraisal of science and more a marketing conference for Pharma." ....<<<Read More>>>...
