Healthy Skepticism Library item: 2989

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Publication type: Journal Article

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Publicity about sulindac [Editor's reply]
New England Journal of Medicine 1979; 300:(13):735

Abstract:

Note: I think that the major responsibility for the extensive publicity lay with the media, and I explain why in an editorial comment on page 733. However, I must point out that even if physicians had followed Mr. Blakeslee’s advice, had maintained their “cool and professionalism” and turned to the medical literature to find out more about this new drug, their efforts would have been modestly rewarded at best. Their only remaining source of information was the manufacturer’s promotional material and advertising hardly an ideal source for a critical and objective comparison of sulindac with its numerous competitors. [full text]

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*letter to the editor/United States/