Dr. John Abramson: The drug companies own the data from their clinical trials.

"It's even more serious because the drug companies own the data from their clinical trials. It's so serious, Joe. When a drug company sponsors a clinical trial and they do the analyses and they write up a manuscript and they say what happened and they send it to a medical journal and it gets peer reviewed and doctors are trained that they should read and trust peer-reviewed articles that are well conducted and that's how the system works. The peer reviewers and the editors of the medical journals don't get to see the data. They have to take the word of the drug companies that they've presented the data accurately and reasonably completely. And you only get to see it in litigation. Five years later when it doesn't matter because everyone's formed their opinion. It's insane and doctors don't know this."