Conflict of Interests
Thought this might be of interest."It is no wonder that a recent CBS 48 Hours show claimed that “schizophrenia” was a
physically based mental “disease” requiring debilitating antipsychotic drugs."
That is only the beginning of the report.
It covers in it essentially why CBS is in bed with the pharma industry. Given just a few tid bit you get the idea with:
- CBS last recieved a whopping $592.6 million from direct-to-consumer drugs advertising money in 2005 alone - over 22% of it's advertising income.
- Several of the psychiatrists interviewed for the “treatment” section for depression on the CBS Cares website are paid consultants for pharmaceutical companies. Philip R. Muskin is Chief of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry at the Columbia University Medical Center of the New York Presbyterian Hospital and a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is a consultant for Bristol-Myers Squibb and Pfizer, Inc., has received research grants from Bristol-Myers Squibb and has been on the Speakers Bureau for Bristol-Myers Squibb, Forest Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Glaxo Wellcome, Inc., Janssen Pharmaceutica Inc., Parke-Davis and Pfizer, Inc."
Those are excerpts, I suggest reading the whole report.
posted by Kombucha @ 11/03/2006 11:41:00 AM
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