Todd wrote:

  <<I don't buy this.  First of all, studies funded by pharmaceutical
companies are not necessarily invalid.  >>

  You're right, but ultimately one is left to one's own discernment to
decide which ones ARE valid because of poorly designed studies and false
reporting, which  is epidemic in pharmaceutical company studies.  There's
too much politics going on here, and too mamy drugs that have too many
harmful effects.

Siobhan