You know what's funny, I just realized research scientist don't normally use a hundred rats to make sure that the product they are testing is consistent in it's results yet when it comes to herb, people like DAZE say they want to see testings like this done. In fact, a lot of pharmaceuticals are either basically sugar pills or dangerous, but they pay off the research scientist and they hide facts to get the drug passed, and these are the people you put all your hope in. I'm not saying pharmaceuticals are all bad but to act like these companies and scientist are honest is plain ignorance.
Big Pharma criminality no longer a conspiracy theory: Bribery, fraud, price fixing now a matter of public record
Big Pharma criminality no longer a conspiracy theory: Bribery, fraud, price fixing now a matter of public record
"Those of us who have long been describing the pharmaceutical industry as a "criminal racket" over the last few years have been wholly vindicated by recent news. Drug and vaccine manufacturer Merck was caught red-handed by two of its own scientists faking vaccine efficacy data by spiking blood samples with animal antibodies. GlaxoSmithKline has just been fined a whopping $3 billion for bribing doctors, lying to the FDA, hiding clinical trial data and fraudulent marketing. Pfizer, meanwhile has been sued by the nation's pharmacy retailers for what is alleged as an "overarching anticompetitive scheme" to keep generic cholesterol drugs off the market and thereby boost its own profits."
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2012/03/28/drug-company-paying-millions-to-government-over-claims-it-lied/
Drug Company Paying Millions To Government Over Claims It Lied
BEAUMONT (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — A Mississippi-based pharmaceutical company has agreed to pay $2.8 million to resolve civil allegations that the manufacturer falsely marketed skin products to receive government funding.
The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas, John M. Bales, said Wednesday that Cypress Pharmaceutical Inc., a subsidiary and CEO Max Draughn will pay $1.6 million to the military’s TRICARE program and $1.2 million to state Medicaid programs.
The government alleges that Cypress subsidiary Hawthorne Pharmaceuticals Inc. falsely claimed that three skin products carried the Food and Drug Administration’s “safe and effective” designation. The government also claims the regulatory status of the products was misrepresented.
Bales says a whistleblower received $300,000 as part of the settlement.
Joseph Zwicker, an attorney for Madison, Miss.-based Cypress, said the settlement involved “a fraction” of the original allegations, and the company denied any wrongdoing.