Medicamentos útiles, inútiles y peligrosos...el libro de Even y Debré

"The pharmaceutical industry is the most lucrative, the most cynical and the least ethical of all the industries"

"It is like an octopus with tentacles that has infiltrated all the decision making bodies,..."

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The Professional Federation of Medical Industrialists denounced the doctors' views as full of "confusions and approximations".

"This book is helping to alarm those who are sick needlessly and risks leading them to stop treatments," it said in a statement.

Christian Lajoux, the federation's president said: "It is dangerous and irresponsible … hundreds of their examples are neither precise nor properly documented. We must not forget that the state exercises strict controls on drugs. France has specialist agencies responsible for the health of patients and of controlling what information is given to them."

Professor Even told the Guardian most of the drugs criticized in the book are produced by French laboratories. He accused the pharmaceutical industry of pushing medicines at doctors who then push them on to patients. "The pharmaceutical industry is the most lucrative, the most cynical and the least ethical of all the industries," he said. "It is like an octopus with tentacles that has infiltrated all the decision making bodies, world health organizations, governments, parliaments, high administrations in health and hospitals and the medical profession."(Más)