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This routine American behaviour is now being used in Europe to further the interests of big business.

Medicine is another field where so-called science stops resembling science. Instead, it becomes propaganda designed to sell drugs. The clinical trials used by the Food and Drug Administration to make drug approval decisions are conducted almost entirely by the drug companies themselves. These companies go out of their way to hire scientists willing to design and run these studies to produces precisely the result that the drug companies want. This is easy to accomplish; any researcher refusing to play along with this fraudulent science game is not offered additional work. In the worst cases, they are terminated and blackballed from the industry.

This manipulation of drug trials is routine today. Drug companies are able to support almost any conclusion, no matter how ridiculous or preposterous, by pumping enough money into the studies. They can then picking the studies they want to forward to the FDA and make sure that on-the-take researchers are involved at every stage of the game. The FDA then bases its drug approvals on these junk science manipulations.

Junk science and the discrediting of alternative medicine. While distorted science is used to promote synthetic (petro) chemicals that are extremely dangerous and almost universally ineffective, the same sort of distortion is used to attack anything that could compete with high-profit pharmaceuticals. Bad science is used to attack vitamins, nutrients, and all natural therapies that powerful corporations canâ€™t patent to make real money.

Vitamin E was routinely discredited in the mainstream media, for example, using remarkably bad science. Researchers tested synthetic, low-dose versions of vitamin E on populations with high risks of heart attack or stroke. When deaths occurred within the sample population group, the headlines read, “Vitamin E causes Heart Attack!” It’s a preposterous conclusion; but this is how deeply distorted science has become today in its quest to promote the interests of corporations. (In truth, researchers weren’t even using vitamin E, they were using a synthetic chemical with a molecular structure that isn’t the same as vitamin E from plants.)

Residents of the United States like to think they live in a nation based on solid science. Although there is plenty of rigorous science taking place within the United States, much of the most important science produced today is based entirely on creating the illusion that something sold by a corporation is good, or that new regulations that require businesses to conduct themselves with environmental responsibility are not necessary. It’s interesting that science always seems to reflect the interests of corporations here in the United States, and rarely the interests of the People, the planet or the future of human civilization.

Counter Think by Mike Adams with thanks to www.NewsTarget.com

Another reason for a lack of research in the field of complementary medicine, Goddard explained, was that there is little incentive to invest in researching remedies which cannot be exclusively manufactured by a drugs company.

“You can’t patent a herb, you can’t patent massage and you can’t patent homeopathic remedies or a vitamin,” she said. “The people who actually do the large-scale medical trials are the pharmaceutical companies, but if they can’t get a product out of it, why should they bother?

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