(03-12-2019, 08:49 PM)EvolvingPhoenix Wrote: Wow. That's pretty corrupt that a company official got to edit articles about it. Glad it got brought to light. Thanks for sharing xise.
Yeah in our healthcare marketing MBA class, we had a contract research organization executive come in and discuss the difficulty in working with smaller companies who want safety testing done so they can pass FDA approval but they can't pay as much and want the same treatment as larger companies. He talked about how larger companies, companies which can fund more studies through them and can pay more, get top end treatment, such as the company having pre-study meetings over how the study was to be done, having weekly meetings with the head researcher, viewing the data as it comes in weekly, and being able to stop the study mid-way through - prior to completion - so that nothing has to be published and the data doesn't have to become public.
I looked around the classroom and no one else seem phased by what he was talking about or at least didn't show it.
I think these things are much more deeply ingrained in American culture than we realize, and people don't even notice the conflicts anymore.