Anyone have the actual paper? Does it list who (eg Huberman) is receiving the payola?
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#12When has doctors endorsing any drugs, on x or real life, ever been anything more than paid advertisement?
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#13The system is great at extracting wealth, manipulating people and manufacturing demand. It’s hard to find advice that is genuine and believable. Lots of genuine people are having their messages diluted by misinformation and misdirection. Nothing can be trusted.
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#14Doctors who fail to disclose an interest should lose their license. The SEC doesn't tolerate such shenanigans for finance, why should the FDA permit it for drugs?
As of their latest reporting I could find on the fda site, 3.3B out of their 7.2B budget comes from "user fees", so the more drugs are sold, the more they get back in user fees.
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#15Anyone have the actual paper? Does it list who (eg Huberman) is receiving the payola?
You can search the database they used: https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/
I can’t find Huberman, but it does look like Peter Attia [1] was payed $300k by Dexcom for consulting services. Dexcom makes continuous glucose monitors that Attia has repeatedly mentioned on the show. It looks like there’s even an episode where he interviews the CEO, although this happened before the payment [2].
This website [3] links his NPI displayed on Open Payments (1144596339) to his CA license number (A96452) which he displays on his about page [4]. So it does look like this is the Peter Attia of podcast fame.
[1] https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/physician/908146 [2] https://peterattiamd.com/kevinsayer/ [3] https://opennpi.com/provider/1144596339 [4] https://peterattiamd.com/about/
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#16"The research team points out that while some may see the practice of being paid to endorse drugs as unethical, it is not illegal and does not affect licensing." - are there countries where this is illegal and/or never get paid for drug endorsements?
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#17There was a recent HN post about a weight-loss drug where I bit my tongue and did not try to "rebut" stuff there with a comment about diet and lifestyle. Methinks this problem runs deeper than paying doctors to promote drugs. Americans fundamentally seem to see drugs and surgeries as "health care" in a way I find concerning.
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#18There was a recent HN post about a weight-loss drug where I bit my tongue and did not try to "rebut" stuff there with a comment about diet and lifestyle . Methinks this problem runs deeper than paying doctors to promote drugs. Americans fundamentally seem to see drugs and surgeries as "health care" in a way I find concerning.
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#19There was a recent HN post about a weight-loss drug where I bit my tongue and did not try to "rebut" stuff there with a comment about diet and lifestyle . Methinks this problem runs deeper than paying doctors to promote drugs. Americans fundamentally seem to see drugs and surgeries as "health care" in a way I find concerning.
...are drugs and surgeries not healthcare?
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#20Anyone have the actual paper? Does it list who (eg Huberman) is receiving the payola?
This seems to work: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2819356
Sadly no specifics about the 28 physicians they analyze.