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The extent to which the pharmaceutical industry controls the flow of information about its products is chilling, including the opportunity to manipulate the peer reviewed medical literature. The notion that market forces or physician expertise can adequately protect the public from being prescribed drugs for uses for which they have not been shown to be safe and effective flies in the face of the facts.https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/public_citizen_shared_link.jpg1200628