Dr. Angell tells me, “I would call up [a research author prior to publishing a study] and say, ‘Okay, you’ve shown that your drug is pretty good. But [you claim] there’s not a single side effect. [Yet] any drug that does anything is going to have some side effects.’ And I had people say, ‘Well, the [drug company] sponsor won’t let me [publish that].’ And so, I came to be extremely distrustful of most of the research that was published. We did our very best. We often rejected things because it was clearly biased. But anything we rejected always ended up in another journal.”
