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There Is This Peculiar Blind Spot In The Culture Of Academic Medicine Around Whether Withholding Trial Results Is Research Misconduct. People Who Work In Any Industry Can Reinforce Each Others' Ideas About What Is Okay.

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In The Past, [medicalization]has Been Portrayed As Something That Doctors Inflict On A Passive And Un-suspecting World - An Expansion Of The Medical Empire. But In Reality, It Seems That These Reductionist Bio-medical Stories Can Appeal To Us All, Because Complex Problems Often Have Depressingly-complex Causes, And The Solutions Can Be Taxing, And Unsatisfactory.