Questioning Medicine

Finance ethics committee, big pharma with deep pockets, mafia like arrangements, and a patient with a 40% increase risk of ischemia myocardial events have in common?I will say todays podcast was inspired by a tweet, yes a tweet from Dr. john Mandrola and he said “I am embarrassed to have not (really) known the details of the rosiglitazone affair. Teaching this to learners has to be 10x more valuable than the krebs cycle. My gosh – talk about lessons to learn. We have to promote more skeptical priors’ He attached a link to a paper titledThe rise and fall of rosiglitazoneEuropean Heart Journal, Volume 31, Issue 7, April 2010, Pages 773–776https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/31/7/773/433556I also will say I did not know the details of the rosiglitazone affair but after spending the last 3 days digging through this paper and the sources to this paper and the sources to those papers and by the end you will know exactly what Finance ethics committee, big pharma with deep pockets, mafia like arrangements, and