Thanks to Michael Tierra of the AHG for posting this. Musta slipped by me...

Thirteen of the world’s principal medical journals, including The Lancet, the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association, have accused major drug companies of distorting the results of scientific research for the sake of profits. The drug companies, among the richest corporations in the world, are accused of using their money, or the threat of its withdrawal, to control academic researchers with legal contracts preventing them from reporting freely and fairly on the results of trials of new drugs. Such researchers, often from underfunded university departments, may not get access to raw data, including information on side-effects, often have no say in trial design, and may not participate fully in interpreting the results of trials. Researchers who complain can easily be replaced by others who do not, and even if researchers do have a significant say in trial design and result interpretation, the actual results will often be buried if they are unfavourable to the drug’s prospects (The Guardian, 10/9/01).