Big Pharma firms usually peddle wonder drugs and vaccines citing “evidence-based medicine” and “real science” to back up their claims – so tell me, how did a medical researcher receiving grants from these firms get away with fabricating research data for 13 years?
A US doctor, a former member of Pfizer Inc’s speakers’ bureau, has reportedly agreed to plead guilty to accusations of having launched “one of the biggest research frauds in medical history”.
Dr Scott Reuben has been charged with accepting a US$75,000 Pfizer grant to study Celebrex in 2005: problem is no patients were ever enrolled in the study! His research, published in a peer-reviewed medical journal, “proved” that the painkiller helped reduce pain during post-surgical recovery.
Turns out he had been fabricating data for 13 years. How did a ‘peer-reviewed’ medical journal fall for this and previous submissions by the same researcher? Just how many other rogue researchers, bank-rolled with grants from Big Pharma, are out there?
Check out Natural News’ scathing indictment of this scam.
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