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john - 20 Dec 2004 17:11 GMT

Every medical newsgroup has at least one pharma shill, always happy to
provide help as long as it is allopathic medicine.
http://www.whale.to/b/shills_q.html

This one is the misc.kids.health one
http://www.whale.to/m/putz.html

you can guess the ones here

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PaulKing - 20 Dec 2004 22:49 GMT

There is a well know GM Carter - Used car sales.

Pre-Owned. Vehicles. CARTER GM www.buysell.com/advertisers/carter_gm

A *used car salesman fits our Carter to the tee.

The problem he would keep insisting a truck was a limo and a mountain bike
was a school bus.

(*Out of work)

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PaulKing - 23 Dec 2004 06:26 GMT

The link between industry, authors and their results By Jeremy Laurance

23 April 2004

Cancer drugs: Just 5 per cent of studies funded by the pharmaceutical
industry reached unfavourable conclusions about the companies' drugs
compared with 38 per cent paid for by non-profit organisations. ( Journal
of the American Medical Association , 1999)

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/story.jsp?story=514316

Drug firms profit from 'murky' link with journals, study shows Companies
are misleading doctors, patients and governments to push their medicines,
says a special edition of the 'BMJ' By Maxine Frith, Social Affairs
Correspondent

30 May 2003

The "murky" relationships between the world's leading pharmaceutical
companies, supposedly independent medical journals and family doctors are
exposed in the British Medical Journal today.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/story.jsp?story=410738

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