(Download PDF) Taking On Big Pharma: Dr. Charles Bennett's Battle - Julius Getman

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The battle between Big Pharma and scientific integrity Larger-than-life, creative, and fiercely ambitious, Dr. Charlie Bennett?has a long history of revealing dangerous side effects of bestselling medicines. In 2006, his meta-analysis of existing data showed that top-selling ESAs (erythropoietin stimulating agents) created previously unrecognized risks, deaths, and serious illness. According to Dr. Stephen Rosen, chief medical officer of the City of Hope Cancer treatment center, Bennett ?saved more lives than anyone in American medicine.? ? Bennett?s work also created enemies: Bennett was accused, on the basis of flimsy evidence, of mishandling government grant money and violating the Small Claims Act. Powerful interests within Big Pharma, academia, and law enforcement joined in the attack on Bennett. By 2010, he was forced from his academic position; was besieged by lawsuits; and became the victim of a coordinated, well-funded campaign to discredit him and refute his work. From