Re:Avoiding Heart Disease
by oceanic on Monday November 04, 2013 @10:27PM
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I agree it's tough trying to glean facts from the media now. Everyone seems to have a vested interest.
However, when you consider that pharmaceutical companies in the US pay doctors (not always directly for prescribing their drugs, but close enough), and also fund most of the research in the US, Australia and probably most other countries, that seems a much stronger candidate for bias than a science researcher who is trying to tell a story on a not-for-profit TV network.
There are plenty of medical "breakthroughs" throughout history that have come from people who were initially branded as heretics/crazies but who eventually were proved correct. Germ theory, antibiotics, anaesthesia etc.
However, when you consider that pharmaceutical companies in the US pay doctors (not always directly for prescribing their drugs, but close enough), and also fund most of the research in the US, Australia and probably most other countries, that seems a much stronger candidate for bias than a science researcher who is trying to tell a story on a not-for-profit TV network.
There are plenty of medical "breakthroughs" throughout history that have come from people who were initially branded as heretics/crazies but who eventually were proved correct. Germ theory, antibiotics, anaesthesia etc.