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Finley said in Chapter 2 that a medical director from a large pharmaceutical company expressed a willingness to ignore, distort, reject any evidence that their drugs were ineffective or harmful because there was no absolutely conclusive proof.

C. Yes, Finley quoted a Squibbs director as saying: "anything that helps sell a drug is valid . . . while anything that decreases sales must be suppressed, distorted and rejected because it is not absolutely conclusive proof." See p. 65.

Congratulations! Finley said it!

Finley quotes this to show that the drug companies were not being ethical in their interpretations of the studies. Finley marshalls considerable evidence to illustrate this point. In this case, the corporations advertise any possible attraction, even when they know it is likely to be or has been disproven, but ignore those studies which show their drug in a negative light. They are telling the truth. No study cannot conclusively prove a correlation. But that does not mean that to treat it as insignificant is appropriate either.

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