Comments on: The malware of medical science http://mindhacks.com/2011/06/28/the-malware-of-medical-science/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Sun, 19 May 2013 06:21:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: “The malware of medical science” (MindHacks) | Autodespair http://mindhacks.com/2011/06/28/the-malware-of-medical-science/#comment-20453 Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:57:43 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=18513#comment-20453 [...] full article: http://mindhacks.com/2011/06/28/the-malware-of-medical-science/ [...]

]]> By: Emmy http://mindhacks.com/2011/06/28/the-malware-of-medical-science/#comment-20218 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 01:33:30 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=18513#comment-20218 Reminds me of my days in the vet tech program also – we had no nutrition course, so we had a guest speaker for the nursing class. Surprise! It was a sales rep from Purina. We got to hear the virtues of animal byproducts. After graduating, I was required to earn 12 credits a year in order to keep my degree. Purina (and Merck) offered online classes. I took the Purina nutrition one (it was cheap and I didn’t have to drive to Boston) and took the multiple-choice quiz at the end. 2/3 nutrition, The last 1/3rd asked us to identify the best possible diet for cats and dogs. It was usually like this: A. Some kind of meat. B. Some combo of meat and veggies. C. Purina’s new product for cats or dogs! Surprise again – Purina’s products were always the correct answer.

For the efforts in the course (which took several days to complete), we were given a mug, a backpack, a watch and some other Purina nicknack. Oh, and one other thing: a renewal on our veterinary nursing certification. Because we now know that Purina is the best pet food. Yeah, right. I’d never feed my animal that crap, but at least now I know what the company is up to.

]]> By: Dan http://mindhacks.com/2011/06/28/the-malware-of-medical-science/#comment-20212 Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:09:31 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=18513#comment-20212 I found the following article after reading this blogpost and doing a bit of searching: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/martha-rosenberg/pfizer-neurontin-suicide_b_875603.html “But even though Pfizer pled guilty to criminal marketing of Neurontin in 2004 and was found guilty again in 2010, it earned $387 million from the drug in 2008. Who says crime doesn’t pay? …In just three years, Parke-Davis planted 13 ghostwritten articles in medical journals promoting off-label uses for Neurontin”

]]> By: amany http://mindhacks.com/2011/06/28/the-malware-of-medical-science/#comment-20209 Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:28:51 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=18513#comment-20209 thanks for this inf.

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