Vermeulen M
Academisch Medisch Centrum/Universiteit van Amsterdam, afd. Neurologie, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ Amsterdam.
Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2006 Aug 12;150(32):1769.
The pharmaceutical industry is not basically interested in knowledge about diseases and their treatment--its main interest is selling drugs. Hence, its research may even be aimed at shifting the border between health and disease in order to produce more indications for which drugs can be prescribed. In contrast, non-industry sponsored research can be aimed at solving medical problems that really matter and problems for which other forms of treatment are indicated than medication. Therefore, industry-sponsored research is bad for medical science.
制药行业基本上对有关疾病及其治疗的知识并不感兴趣——其主要兴趣在于销售药品。因此，其研究甚至可能旨在改变健康与疾病之间的界限，以便产生更多可以开药的适应症。相比之下，非行业资助的研究可以旨在解决真正重要的医学问题以及那些表明需要药物以外其他治疗形式的问题。所以，行业资助的研究对医学科学不利。
