Attacking "Side Effects" with Logical Fallacies

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Fri, 07/18/2008 - 11:05

Concerns about manipulation and suppression of the clinical research literature are gaining more traction. Recently, Alison Bass published Side Effects , a book that explored one of the more vivid cases.

As described by a reviewer in the New England Journal of Medicine,(1)

She has used the case of Paxil to expose the unsavory and self-serving relationships among members of the pharmaceutical industry, psychiatrists, and members of the FDA.

The reviewer concluded,...


 

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