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• Drug Companies Cook Books, Misleading Doctors | Wired Science from Wired.com

  The difference between what drug companies tell the government and doctors suggests that they're cooking the books, which could mislead doctors making prescriptions.

  Of 33 new drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2001 and 2002, one-fifth of supporting clinical trials were not published in medical journals, according to a new study. And those results that were published were often more positive than what companies presented to the FDA in their applications. As a result, potentially unreliable data is being used to promote drugs on which billions of dollars and thousands of lives may ride.



• Talking Turkey: Ten Myths Conservative Believe About Progressives | OurFuture.org


• It's Not About People, It's About Policy

  I argued the opposite earlier this month on the LIberalOasis Radio Show, that Obama had earned the "benefit of the doubt" when putting together the team he feels is best to execute his policies, and if we were to criticize Obama, it should be reserved for "matters of policy, not personnel."



• Rachel Johnson 'honoured' to win Bad Sex award | Books | guardian.co.uk


• KR Blog » Blog Archive » Cullen vs. Darcy, or The Case Against Twilight


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• Greg Laden's Blog : Gods Ways are not Our Ways