The huge influence of the pharmaceutical industry is well known: from drug research to their approval and distribution.
Big Pharma has the healthcare system completely under control!
Pharmaceutical companies have a decisive influence on which research studies are published at all.
"It is obvious that articles critical of pharmaceuticals are less likely to be published in journals that are supported by
pharmaceutical companies, whose medical editors are supported by pharmaceutical companies and whose
peer reviewers are paid by pharmaceutical companies."
says Adriane Fugh-Berman, head of the PharmedOut project at Georgetown University Medical Center.
This is confirmed by a study published in the "Journal of the American Medical Association", JAMA for short.
The study examines payments made by pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers to peer
reviewers of leading medical journals in the USA.
Peer reviewers are reviewers of a scientific paper from their specialist field.
More than half of the peer reviewers surveyed received a total of 1.06 billion US dollars from the
pharmaceutical industry in the period 2020-2022.
Doctors, associations and politicians are also under the influence of the pharmaceutical industry.
According to Pfizer, a total of around 23 million euros went to Austrian doctors, associations,
medical associations, etc. in Austria alone in 2021.
Conclusion: A brief look behind the scenes shows what a formative influence the pharmaceutical industry
has on the entire research and development of medicine.
The well-known saying "Money makes the world go round" also applies to medicine.
The pharmaceutical industry only invests its fat profits where it is profitable for them.