right?īut what would happen if the company turned in fake data? You may be shocked to learn how easy it was for a group of chemists from Houston to "falsify results" and send fake data to the FDA.Īpparently, Cetero doesn't hire your regular old Cal Tech chemists. So you'd think that the FDA would diligently monitor a company like Cetero to make sure their results are legit. This data helps the FDA determine whether a drug should get market approval. Then, the Cetero chemists report their results to the "drug sponsor." (This term makes Big Pharma almost sound like they're actually watching out for us, doesn't it?) Lastly, the "drug sponsor" or drug company presents the data to the FDA. Next, they retest the patients to see if their various symptoms improved. They administer the drug to the patients.
#A special report by dr. allan spreen trial#
They develop the trial protocol (and figure out how much of the drug to give each patient and how often). Then you come shockingly close to taking a drug based on this "fake" data.Ĭetero Research runs clinical trials for Pfizer, Novartis, and AstraZeneca. So what happens when humble, independent chemists turn to the dark side? They manipulate the results and send fake data to the FDA. Then, they report their results to the FDA. Chemists at these companies work "independently" to monitor clinical trials for Big Pharma. You see, Big Pharma outsources much of its dirty work on drugs to medical testing companies. Very often, these chemists are the only reliable things standing between you and taking an unsafe - even deadly - drug. You don't expect it from humble chemists who dedicate their lives to science. You expect Big Pharma to cheat, lie, steal, and create fake data. It changes faster and faster each year, so we never know what it's going to look like next.Īnd even if they do figure it all out, you can be sure I won't be in line.
And you'll only need it once every five years! They believe if they target this part of the virus that a universal flu shot will work. The NIH director says the universal flu shot gets around this problem because there are two proteins in the virus that don't change from year to year. Actually, this process resembles fortune telling more than it does 21st century medicine. Researchers have a heck of a time predicting which strains of the virus to put into the flu shot from year to year.
I have to admit, this gave me a little chuckle.Īs every Tom, Dick, and Harry knows, the flu changes every year. So you'd only have to get it once every five years instead of annually like the current flu shot. The Director of the National Institutes of Health says they're closing in on a long-term, universal flu shot that would last five years.
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