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Legal Addictions to Food and Tobacco. She would be an excellent candidate for a trial of a drug to "treat" the symptoms, like "cholesterol", of a self-destructive lifestyle. Such people are beloved of drug dealers and trialist doctors on their payrolls because they are "high risk" and have high "event" (i.e. heart attack and death) rates allowing investigators to publish papers faster and drug dealers to sell more drugs. Thus, all testing of drugs for lifestyle diseases necessitates severe conflict of interest. To insist that such people change their habits first would reduce "events" and prolong trials for years, so no drug trial has ever made a serious attempt to do so. All such trials were and are, therefore, UNETHICAL. Reports of the results of such trials should be retracted by the journals involved and the results should be ignored by all practicing doctors.
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Posted by Colin Rose on September 12, 2009

No professional should take any benefits from any industry for which s/he makes recommendations to clients. Medical licensing bodies should de-license any doctor who does so.

FREE LUNCHES COME AT A PRICE
ALEX ROSLIN SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE
The Gazette
12 Sep 2009

Adam Hofmann is used to getting teased about his lunch. It’s not because his mom gave him something uncool to eat. It’s because he paid for it. Hofmann is a doctor and fifth-year medical resident at McGill University. Lunchtime is often when residents…read more…

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