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How Big Pharma Is Fooling You -- and Your Doctor -- with Junk Science

By Niko Karvounis, Health Beat. Posted August 11, 2008.


To the pharmaceutical industry, "research" is just a code-word for "smart-sounding marketing."
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Niko Karvounis is a Program Officer with The Century Foundation in New York City, where he works on issues of socioeconomic inequality and health care. He is a regular contributor to Health Beat, the Foundation's health care blog.

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