The Pharmaceutical Industry

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Did Astra Zeneca's research chief bias science with Sex-for-Studies/Drugs scandal?

Dr. Wayne MacFadden, AZ’s former US medical director for Seroquel and director clincial research in CNS had affairs with a clinical researcher who authored publications favorable to Seroquel, and a medical marketer who promoted Seroquel through medical publications and other means.
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Former AstraZeneca U.S. medical director for Seroquel Wayne MacFadden confessed his multiple sexual affairs, and his offer of drugs to one of the women he was sleeping with, to lawyers in December 2007.
The confessions include descriptions of sex in hotel rooms paid for by AZ, illicit distribution of Vicodin, and a kinky relationship in which one of his colleagues asked to be “punished” for looking at a study that had negative results for Seroquel.

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

I can't find any evidence on the internets of an African tribe accidentally discovering penicillin.

Memory returns a 93% match.
And adds that the fruit had to have been chewed by a cross-eyed child.

I think the source was a book by Lyall Watson; either Supernature or Lifetide.
I read these boooks ages ago, they teeter between cutting edge science - with all the correct references etc - and some questionable extrapolation.

It was where I first learned about the grex, though. Amazing little thing. or 10,000 things, I'm still not sure.