Uneasy Alliance -- Clinical Investigators and the Pharmaceutical Industry

How much influence does industry have over the work and products of the research community? Can practicing physicians trust the information they receive about the medications they are prescribing? Does the shift from the academic to the commercial research sector give industry too much control over clinical drug trials? 

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Subject:   "Sound Science"-------
Date:        Fri, 09 Jun 2000 06:35:15 -0400
From:        Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization:     Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)

To:     Lyndon Hawkins <hawkins@empm.cdpr.ca.gov>
          Senior Research Scientist
          State of California, Department of Pesticide Regulation - Integrated Pest Management

Dear Lyndon,  Don Paladin sent me this one - WEBSITES TO CHECK OUT

 
Fri, 09 Jun 2000 06:35:15 -0400- The New England Journal of Medicine -- May 18, 2000 -- Vol. 342, No. 20.  "academic-industry drug trials have been tainted by the profit incentive, [but] they do contain the potential for balance between the commercial interests of industry and the scientific goals of investigators. In contrast, trials conducted in the commercial sector are heavily tipped toward industry interests..."  http://www.nejm.org:80/content/2000/0342/0020/1539.asp  

[Don Paladin's note: It seems that the EPA, the FDA, and other regulatory agencies have a common problem: corporate pressure for "SOUND SCIENCE "...  ]  

With the current "ban" on DursBAN still echoing in our ears, it would now seem a good time for you to expose what you know about the POISON "industry's" idea of what constitutes "sound science" and the pressures "they" use to "register" their POISONS.  

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