Flutterby™! : Tamiflu, Roche, and scams

BBC News: Tamiflu: Millions wasted on flu drug, claims major report.

Drug companies do not publish all their research data. This report is the result of a colossal fight for the previously hidden data into the effectiveness and side-effects of Tamiflu.

The Cochrane Collaboration: Neuraminidase inhibitors for preventing and treating influenza in healthy adults and children

The Guardian: What the Tamiflu saga tells us about drug trials and big pharma:

First, the Cochrane researchers wrote to the authors of the Kaiser paper. By reply, they were told that this team no longer had the files: they should contact Roche. Here the problems began. Roche said it would hand over some information, but the Cochrane reviewers would need to sign a confidentiality agreement. This was tricky: Cochrane reviews are built around showing their working, but Roche's proposed contract would require them to keep the information behind their reasoning secret from readers.

When you want to know why the anti-vaccine movement is gaining ground? Look at Roche.