Posted by Larry Hoover on June 6, 2006, at 8:19:59
In reply to This is pathetic SJW study, posted by linkadge on May 22, 2006, at 1:00:55
> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/04/020410075818.htm
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> How can I believe such a study when the man with the "final say" holds stock in pfizer? Why is the American population told to ditch SJW in favor of pharmacudicals? I think this sort of thing is pathetic.
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> I wish we could have a completely unnbiased study.
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> LinkadgeThere was one, published at almost precisely the same time, with the same two drug comparators.
Here's another one, more recent:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15744631Guess which ones didn't get the press?
I've posted more than one heavily critical analysis of the SJW study you find so troubling. Do you not notice that they made *no mention* of the fact that sertraline (Zoloft) also failed to relieve depression, in that study? Do you not think that's bigger news? I do.
They go on, to fudge their findings, using a secondary measure to demonstrate that Zoloft did really work, but, that is not allowed!!!!!!!
I don't know how they got away with publishing an abstract so blatantly false.
A primary measure that fails is a study that failed. No secondary measure can replace a primary one, by design. Primary measures are the only measures that count, based on a priori hypotheses. The whole thing was a political act.
Pfizer not only owned the rights to Zoloft, in this study, they supplied the SJW. Right after that study was published, Pfizer withdrew the SJW product from the market. They bought the herb company, set up an experiment that could not succeed, published biased and false conclusions, and then shut the whole thing down.
Lar
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