For the medical world, this is the big ethical problem of the past 25 years. The leaders of patient advocacy groups, the doctors and scientists, the med students, and, yes, the leaders of the pharmaceutical industry, should speak now, or forever hold your peace.

The existing situation, wherein science fraud is blithely accepted, negative trials are hidden away and successful ones are publicized, to the detriment of patients, distorting the basis on which life-and-death decisions are made, and we see that the only response from the medical and science and advocacy leaders is to shrug their shoulders; is a perfect model of a situation that cannot endure; cannot be tolerated.

Silence is the answer we most often hear in the medical milieu. The silence is deafening.
And silence is not the right answer. It is the silence of the lambs, and it is a dirty rotten shame.
The time has come to put it right. It would be better for everyone, including Pharma, to not talk falsely now. The hour is getting late.