Attacking "Side Effects" with Logical Fallacies, Version 2

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Thu, 07/24/2008 - 09:59

Side Effects by Alison Bass continues to generate controversy.

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

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,

Bass's riveting and well-researched account of these disturbing ties should be widely read by members of the medical profession, many of whom continue...

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