Emotional Sensitivity

[turtledude23]

Aren't these so called scientific studies on the effects medication usually being paid for by the pharmaceutical companies?
just asking.
I remember some time ago, on the news, the speaker announced that a new scientific study had shown that telephoning via cellphones did not increase the risk of braintumors. He then proceeded to announce that the study had been financed by t-mobile, which is a big cellphone provider here.
Follow the money...

Yes they are financed by pharmaceutical companies and are skewed to favour them however the research necessary to get a new drug approved by the FDA or another country's respective health organization is very strict and extensive, many drugs are not approved despite the millions the pharma companies spent on research. Often times universities will do independent follow up studies on those drugs and find out new information such as "it also has a notable risk of X" and sometimes the FDA (or similar body) will recall drugs they previously approved because of such studies.

Those kinds of studies about cellphones are not regulated by government agencies, any professor can make a study about almost anything they want and do it in almost any way they want, sometimes knowing that it'll give false results, other times unintentionally getting the results they want, but often times getting the closest thing we can get to the truth at this time on Earth. The only way to really know if any specific study is valid is by reading it and seeing how it was conducted, there have been plenty of deliberately misleading studies, and also many studies which once seemed true but later were disproven by future studies, unless those studies were flawed. In any case a study is more rigorous than a professional poll, which is more rigorous than an amateur poll, which is more rigorous than listening to anecdotes. Furthermore a certain segment of the population posts on this forum so any anecdotes they give are not proportional to the population in general.