Drug company manipulation of data … again.

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Tamiflu vaccine – the benefits were marginal and exaggerated and the side effects were ‘underestimated’.

Why does this not surprise me?

Last weeks episode of Catalyst looked at the introduction of the antiviral drug Tamiflu which has been stockpiled by governments around the world. Hundreds of millions of dollars has been spent on a drug that ‘Could be just as effective as aspirin’ for managing a worldwide flu epidemic.

The clinical data related to ALL studies of the drug was not released by the drug manufacturer. They withheld the data that was not showing the drugs efficacy.

The exclusion of clinical data related to drug trials is not just a Tamiflu issue.

Drug companies ‘have a habit’ (pun intended) of presenting positive and suppressing negative results of drug trials.

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/4190452.htm