Richard Smith, former editor of the British Medical Journal, tells you
here how they cook that stats:
<http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020138>
He finally resigned his job after realizing that he no longer was in
full control of the content of his own journal. He also said the
American journals were far worse.
Chuck Norcutt
On 9/17/2011 7:18 PM, Moose wrote:
> On 9/15/2011 6:44 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>> Not a mystery at all to those of us who don't accept the cholesterol
>> theory of heart disease. What's in this link is typical of statin
>> related drug studies. You don't need to understand the medicine (such
>> as it is) to recognize that the statistics are just plain Gawd Awful:
>> <http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/cardiovascular-disease/1853/>
>
> Keep up the good work, Chuck.
>
> If you want another view into how the drug business works, along with the
> invention of disease and the creation of
> studies that 'prove' that things that don't work do, try Manufacturing
> Depression, by Gary Greenberg
>
> Moose
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