Dr.s bought

Excerpt from “Ending Plague”: Chapter 6: Failed Public Health Response to HIV/AIDS "…In 2002, Dr. Relman, former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, said: The medical profession is being bought by the pharmaceutical industry, not only in terms of the practice of medicine, but also in terms of teaching and research. The academic institutions of this country are allowing themselves to be paid agents of the pharmaceutical industry. I think it's disgraceful. Dr. Reman's replacement as editor-in-chief at the prestigious publication sounded a similar warning note in 2009: "It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians." It is not possible to discuss all the reasons for this sorry state of affairs, but I can briefly mention some of the most glaring examples. They would include: the rigging of outcomes of clinical trials, selective and biased publications, commercials for drugs posing as publications written by industry scientists (learned from the tobacco industry), and the outright bribery of journal editors. As has been said by many others, some universities and doctors have become willing participants in this game of killing for profit. Never has this corruption been more apparent to me than during the COVID-19 crisis. But surely, we can expect our huge number of regulatory bodies to protect us, like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) or Food and Drug Administration (FDA)? We cannot. Since Reagan's time these agencies have been consistently weakened to the point where they have become inept and useless."