Yep, Pfizer did this exact same thing with women's hormone treatment, estradiol and progesterone. They purposely secretly withheld the portion of trial data that showed the positive effects of giving these treatments to women, while only publishing the negative effects in the same trial of the study participants taking the dangerous "versions" of the hormones. Eventually the impact of Pfizers secretness started to impact every woman taking hormones in the USA, because their doctors would no longer refill their prescriptions. How could this happen? To back track, after the Pfizer "partial" study was published, another group picked up the ball and ran with it; this group had high media exposure and political power; the message was plain and simple that taking hormones lead to breast-cancer. Unfortunately, no one seemed to bother to find out which exact hormones caused the increase in breast cancer. It was conflated; the superior estradiol/progesterone with the cheap knock offs. Even after Pfizer admitted to their wrong doing, that they knew that estradiol and progesterone did not cause breast cancer, and they deliberately withheld that portion of the trial data ...no matter how much evidence given to a doctor today, they're all still adamant in the false belief that women's hormones lead to breast-cancer. It's a pure lie and a myth. Which is so sad, because IMO if you stop a woman cold turkey from estradiol/progesterone she will feel depressed; so basically she becomes a prime candidate for an anti-depressant Rx. And antidepressants are usually the number one cash cow for big pharmaceutical companies. Hmmm...do you think this is pure coincedence?
It's so frustrating to think how an entire country of doctors can be so easily influenced by ONE study that does not publish the full facts ... and even after the facts are exposed as being untrue... their opinions still do not change ....oh but wait... hmmm... doesn't this scenario sound very familiar to ME peeps?