http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=a-medical-madoff-anesthestesiologist-faked-data
And this is why I don't trust the FDA, or doctors. Last time I got a tetanus shot, I was contemplating the likelihood that the doctor was secretly spreading AIDS as part of a government program -- took a few weeks to shake off that idea. When Libya claimed westerners were spreading AIDS, I believed it and wished the western media reported more on the case.
Call it extreme paranoia, but these days these crazy outcomes are possibilities in the practice of modern medicine. Unless you are important like British Royalty, and get private and special care, there's nothing to suggest that the public infrastructure for health-care can't be used as a vector for sterilization programs, eugenics, or the spread of disease.
Incidentally, the Times of India recently reported that Baxter International mixed up a shipment of flu shots with a particularly nasty air-borne/transmissable bird flu. I believe that was probably intentional.
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