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Jas - if you see this - or anybody else who will know - recently on AI we had a post or a thread or something about how Pharma 'cheats' to get the results they want on some studies.  Something about giving extra medicine to some groups or less of the competition meds to another to help slant the study to a particular conclusion.  Anybody have any idea what I'm talking about?

 
The reason I'm asking is I just saw a study on AIED saying some substance doesn't work but the first set of rats got injections and the 2nd and 3rd set of rats got oral dose of whatever.  Why would they change delivery methods in the middle of a double blind study?  That doesn't make sense to me unless they're tracking delivery methods - which they weren't doing in this study.  Here they were testing the efficacy of the supplement.
 
Idea's???
 
Hugs,
 
Pip
why don't you contact the authors of the study and ask?  Thanks for the idea Buckeye but I've written to a couple of researchers over the year asking for more info and at first, when they think you are part of the press, they are really helpful.  Until they figure out your just a regular sick person.  Then they blow you off.  I'm still mad at one place in particular because it was info I wanted for my daughter.  Boneheads!
 
It's not that I care about the supp (didn't even know what it is) or the fact that the study was about rats (may never apply to us) but it made me want to reread something that was posted here.  I went back a couple of pages and can't figure out what it was.  Something in an article that said something about how they get the results they want.  THAT I want to see.
 
Pip
 
sorry I don't remember the article.  I've guess I've been lucky. the times I've written researchers I've generally gotten an answerYou know. maybe that's the problem - I only wrote the PR contact on the bottom.  And you have some sort of med background, right?  Me, I've got nada.  I really want more info for my baby.
 
Hugs.
 
Pip
PR people don't know diddley squat.  Scientists on the other hand love talking about their research.   Don't go crazy in the opening e-mail.  Simply tell them you read their research and have a question and state it. 
 
I was a biochem major in college a million years ago
Hugs,
 
Pip
[QUOTE=Pip!]Jas - if you see this - or anybody else who will know - recently on AI we had a post or a thread or something about how Pharma 'cheats' to get the results they want on some studies.  Something about giving extra medicine to some groups or less of the competition meds to another to help slant the study to a particular conclusion.  Anybody have any idea what I'm talking about?
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