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> "Kevysmom" <bluebunny8@gmail.com> wrote in message
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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-
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>> 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
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