Pharmaceutical industry
225 sourcesRay Peat was a persistent critic of the pharmaceutical industry's influence on medical science and public health policy. He documented numerous cases where industry interests shaped scientific 'consensus,' suppressed inconvenient findings, and promoted harmful products. He saw the promotion of estrogen therapy, statins, SSRIs, PUFAs, and the demonization of thyroid, progesterone, aspirin, and saturated fat as products of this influence.
Peat emphasized the importance of understanding the economic incentives behind medical recommendations and conducting one's own research rather than accepting authority uncritically. He noted that many effective, inexpensive treatments (aspirin, thyroid, progesterone, vitamin E) were marginalized precisely because they couldn't be patented for large profits.
Key Positions
- Industry funding shapes medical research priorities and conclusions
- Effective, inexpensive treatments are marginalized in favor of patentable drugs
- The estrogen therapy scandal demonstrates how industry can drive harmful practice for decades
- Statins were promoted despite failing to reduce total mortality in most populations
- FDA regulatory capture allows industry to influence safety standards
- Independent research and critical thinking are essential for health decisions
- Generic drugs (aspirin, thyroid, progesterone) are underused because of low profit margins
Sources
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How do you know? Students, patients, and discovery
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I Choose Ice Cream - Geneviève
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Immunodeficiency, dioxins, stress, and the hormones.
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Intelligence and metabolism
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Lactate vs. CO2 in wounds, sickness, and aging; the other approach to cancer
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Membranes, plasma membranes, and surfaces
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Mitochondria and mortality
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Multiple Sclerosis and other hormone related brain syndromes
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Multiple Sclerosis and other hormone-related brain syndromes
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Natural Estrogens
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Oils in Context.
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Osteoporosis, aging, tissue renewal, and product science
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Osteoporosis, harmful calcification, and nerve/muscle malfunctions.
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Pathological Science & General Electric: Threatening the paradigm
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Peatarian Email Depository
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Phosphate, activation, and aging
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Pregnenolone
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Preventing and treating cancer with progesterone.
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Progesterone
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Progesterone Deceptions
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Progesterone Pregnenolone & DHEA - Three Youth-Associated Hormones.
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Progesterone, not estrogen, is the coronary protection factor of women.
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RU486, Cancer, Estrogen, and Progesterone
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Regeneration and degeneration: Types of inflammation change with aging
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Rosacea, inflammation, and aging: The inefficiency of stress