There was one condition though. The group could not share the trial data with third party researchers, thereby preventing independent scrutiny.
This has been a sore point for many independent researchers who say, science, by its very nature, requires contestability.
The CTT group sits under the umbrella of the Clinical Trial Service Unit (CTSU) at Oxford, an organisation that has received over £260million in research funding from the drug industry, the vast majority from manufacturers of cholesterol-lowering drugs.
The findings…
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