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> This was published in Discovery Magazine on June 20,2008. It is one of
> the BEST
> articles I have read on how drugs can kill.
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> Wonder Drugs That Can Kill
> Modern pharmaceutical "breakthroughs" sometimes do more harm than
> good.
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> Such limitations in a study's design can escape detection even by top
> peer reviewers and medical editors. Marcia Angell, the former editor-
> in-
> chief of The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), says that most
> doctors are ill equipped to critically assess the conclusions of
> researchers. A trim woman with a warm smile, Angell leans forward in
> her seat at her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and says, "Let me
> tell you the dirty secret of medical journals: It is very hard to find
> enough articles to publish. With a rejection rate of 90 percent for
> original research, we were hard pressed to find 10 percent that were
> worth publishing. So you end up publishing weak studies because there
> is so much bad work out there." Doctors, Angell says, are not
> skeptical
> enough about what they read in top journals. "They should say, `I
> don't
> believe this; prove it to me.'"
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> http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jul/20-wonder-drugs-that-can-
> kill/article_view?b_start:int=0&-C=
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> Donna