Dr Aseem Malhotra discuss prescription medications as the third leading cause of death

@JoeRogan and @DrAseemMalhotra discuss prescription medications as the third leading cause of death, pharmaceutical companies' control of clinical trial data, and a study by Stanford Prof. John Ioannidis showing that financial interests compromise scientific research accuracy.

"If you think of the business model of the drug industry, it is to get as many people taking as many drugs as possible for as long as possible... The third most common cause of death now globally, after heart disease and cancer, is prescribed medications.

"John Abramson explained to me how peer review is done on trials coming straight from pharmaceutical drug companies. You don't really get access to the data itself. You get access to the pharmaceutical companies' analysis of the data. That sounds insane. That sounds so obviously compromised."

"He [Prof. John Ioannidis] is the most cited medical researcher in the world. He's considered a medical genius with very high scientific integrity... He wrote a paper on why most published science is false, and one of the things he writes in there with his own mathematical modeling of the reliability of research says, 'the greater the financial interest in a given field, the less likely the research findings are to be true.'