Media free drug promotion
Media
[The media are just disguised pharma trade rags, and a million times more effective than if it had 'drug advertisement' at the top of the page.]
Quotes re promotion
Whitaker exposes the massive lies and cover-ups that have corrupted the
Food and Drug Administration's drug review process, and co-opted research
trials in order to spin the results of drug tests and conceal the serious
hazards and even
deadly side-effects of brand-name drugs like Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil and
Zyprexa.
Whitaker starts by debunking the effectiveness of these massively hyped
wonder drugs -- antidepressants like Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil, and the new
atypical antipsychotic drugs like Zyprexa. His research shows how they often
are barely more effective than placebos in treating mental disorder and
depression, despite the glowing adulation they have received in the
mainstream media. Psychiatric Drugs:
An Assault on the Human Condition Street Spirit
Interview with Robert Whitaker
Examples
[2012 Jan] Complementary medicine courses in universities: how I beat the varsity quacks
[Media mirage Sept 2006] Allergy cure just three years away
Daily Mail June 10, 2004 [Better to cure it with non-pharma medicine.]
Guardian 24, April 2003
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