In the 1980s US President Ronald Reagan slashed funding to NIH allowing private industry to move in.
Vast majority of Statin trials are funded by manufactures.
Bias towards drug benefits, and underestimation of risks.
When drug industry, sponsored trials cannot be examined, and questioned by independent researchers, science ceases to exist, and it becomes nothing more than marketing.
Medical doctors have become to a great degree simply pawns to push pharmaceuticals to the end user for benefit of pharmaceutical companies.
About half of the disease burden in the US is due to lifestyle choices and can be corrected by lifestyle changes.
Pharmaceutical’s like statins are inferior to diet changes, but your family doctor does not know this because he or she is not taught this in medical school, and this approach is suppressed in the medical literature.
Marcia Angell, editor of the New England Journal of medicine for 20 years,
Similar conflict of interests and bias exist in virtually every field of medicine, particularly those that rely heavily on drugs and devices.
It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians, or authoritative medical guidelines.
I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades, as an editor of the New England of Journal of medicine.
Richard Horton, editor of the Lancet wrote, that the case against science is straightforward, much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue.
Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analysis, and fragment, conflict of interests, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness.
Big Pharma pays top journal editors.
