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Another I told you so. This is not just a meme. It is the truth.
Yes, Dr. Marcia Angell, the first woman to serve as editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine (from 1988 to 2000), made a statement very close to that in her 2009 book Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption.
She wrote: "It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of the New England Journal of Medicine.
This critique stems from her observations of pharmaceutical industry influence on research, including ghostwriting, selective reporting of trial results, and conflicts of interest among researchers and guidelines panels. It has been widely quoted and discussed in medical ethics debates since its publication, including in outlets like The New York Times and The BMJ, but there is no evidence of Angell (or any other former NEJM ...
