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Merck's Deleted Data
An anonymous reader wrote to mention a Forbes article describing a drug study tampering proven by software. From the article: "A top editor of The New England Journal of Medicine says that he was stunned to find out that data linking Vioxx to cardiovascular risk was deleted from a major study his journal published five years ago--and that it appears that Merck researchers may have deleted that data ... When you hover the cursor over the editing changes, the identity of the editor pops up, and it just says 'Merck'"
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While the other one randomly lobbed missiles into the country and conducted airstrikes, to deflect attention from his then proceeding impeachment for lying under oath.
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Drug companies are corrupt to the core with most of their profit going into advertising instead of Research and Development. Drug companies are nothing but "Business with disease". They promote all sorts of non-nutritional food that will eventually cause disease whether from the chemicals in the food or a vitamin/mineral diffeciency. Once your sick and go to the doctors, who are the Drug companies pawns, you will be prescribed with Drugs such as Vioxx with 1000% (not a typo) markup prices in which most of the money will go to promoting their drugs and bribing off various people such as the FDA. The Drugs you were prescribed will end up making you sicker and experience side effects. The Doctors will then give you MORE Drugs to hide the side effects of the first Drug and then the second and then the third and so on effectively locking you in a vicious cycle and all the time raking in massive profit from you. To make sure their customer base stase as large as possible they go to great lengths, with the aid of the FDA whom they effectively run, to outlaw all other treatments such as herbs and some nutritional foods such as Hemp. At the same time they make it a standard for processed food makers to use all sorts of health deteriorating products such as Apartame (which is listed in the Pentagon as an agent of chemical warfare), MSG and Hydrogenated Vegetable Oils.
At the moment the drug companies are pushing for a new law named Codex Alimentarius which would ban all supplements and natural remedies and make them a punishable offence. The previous attempt to push this law failed thanks to the efforts of Dr. Matthias Rath.