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Dangerous trends in studies performed by pharmaceutical companies. In their post-release studies they don't focus on risk assessment but more or the less on finding new marketing messages

Dangerous trends in studies performed by pharmaceutical companies. In their post-release studies they don't focus on risk assessment but more or the less on finding new marketing messages

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According to the whistleblower, the results of these studies were often dubious. “We occasionally resorted to ‘playing’ with the data that had originally failed to show the expected result,” he says. “This was done by altering the statistical method until any statistical significance was found.” He adds that the company sometimes omitted negative results and played down harmful side effects. After all, post-marketing studies don’t face the scrutiny that pre-approval studies do.
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Nature News Blog: Advertising masked as science? : Nature News Blog
A former pharmaceutical company employee blows the whistle on drug promotion disguised as science in an editorial published today. Read more

Using ggplot2 in R for creating barplots with faced_grid is such a great way to quickly plot massive data frames in a pretty way

Using ggplot2 in R for creating barplots with faced_grid is such a great way to quickly plot massive data frames in a pretty way

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Using ggplot2 in R for creating barplots with faced_grid is such a great way to quickly plot massive data frames in a pretty way. #winning #R #ggplot2

ggplot2: Barplots
One R Tip A Day uses R basic graphics to visualise migration to the United States during 1820-2006. Again, as usual, let’s reproduce this in ggplot2. First, load ggplot2 and dataset > libr…

A loose coalition of eco-anarchist groups is increasingly launching violent attacks on scientists

A loose coalition of eco-anarchist groups is increasingly launching violent attacks on scientists

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A loose coalition of eco-anarchist groups is increasingly launching violent attacks on scientists. Nuclear engineers in Italy, and nanotechnology researchers in Switzerland and Mexico have been targeted with shootings and letter bombs.

Anarchists attack science
Armed extremists are targeting nuclear and nanotechnology workers.

Coda2 is out and gives a proper 50% discount today when you buy it! Ace all in o…

Coda2 is out and gives a proper 50% discount today when you buy it! Ace all in o…

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Coda2 is out and gives a proper 50% discount today when you buy it! Ace all in on editor for OSX!

Coda 2
You code the web. We revolutionized that process in Coda, putting everything in one place. An editor. Terminal. CSS. Files. But we knew we could do better. With Coda 2, we went beyond expectations. Wi…