![]() ![]() We discuss the implications of his research in the interview below. He demonstrates in numerous case studies just how much our medical research establishment has been corrupted by “Big Pharma.” This is a code red kind of moment, he argues. ![]() John Abramson, a lecturer in health-care policy at Harvard Medical School, has taken these critiques quite a bit further in his latest book, Sickening: How Big Pharma Ruined American Healthcare and How to Repair It. That same year, Marcia Angell, former editor of The New England Journal of Medicine, another prestigious academic medicine publication, also wrote that medical journals were “primarily a marketing machine” and “Big Pharma” was co-opting “every institution that might stand in its way.” “Journals have devolved into information laundering operations for the pharmaceutical industry,” wrote Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet, another highly prestigious medical journal, in March 2004. ![]()
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