Companies and physicians at the FDA are increasingly using fast-track approval processes to bring treatments that don’t work to patients. I detail the problems of the US treatment system in my book, The Medicalization of America. One of the problems is that most prescription drugs don’t work. Bloomberg has a good article on one of …
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Oops, Another Physician Has His Medical Journal Articles Retracted – This Time It’s Columbia University
Sam Yoon, M.D. has had four medical journal articles retracted thus far, including a recent 2024 paper that featured faked data where images were used multiple times in one paper to represent different phenomenon. Physicians in a prominent cancer lab at Columbia University, including the Chief of Cancer Surgery at Columbia, have now had four …
McKinsey and its 150 Physicians Pay $78 Million in Opioid Settlement
The corporation McKinsey is a hired gun, and in the case I describe today, the bullet is an opioid that has been loaded into the gun by physicians hired by McKinsey, as well as the physicians who hired McKinsey. McKinsey worked with physician-led Purdue Pharma – the maker of OxyContin (a narcotic pain medication similar …
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