Independent science researchers found to be 2200% more likely to be honest about drug safety than pharma-funded ‘captive’ scientists
by: David Gutierrez
NaturalNews.com
Thursday, May 05, 2016
A recent study in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology had some shocking figures about the effects of conflict of interest in drug research – or perhaps not that shocking to those who follow news of drug industry research scandals. The study evaluated 185 published meta-analyses, studies that compile the data from prior research to be able to draw more conclusions.
The researchers found that one-third of the meta-analyses analyzed had been authored by employees of the pharmaceutical industry, while 80 percent had been authored by people with other financial ties to the industry – either through funding of the study itself, or through receiving personal or professional gifts, speaking fees, grants or other boons from drug companies.
Unsurprisingly, studies authored by drug company employees were 22 times less likely to make negative statements about a drug than those authored by independent researchers.
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