{"id":22130,"date":"2019-03-04T19:36:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T08:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=22130"},"modified":"2019-03-04T19:36:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T08:36:42","slug":"richard-smith-is-the-pharmaceutical-industry-like-the-mafia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=22130","title":{"rendered":"Richard Smith: Is the pharmaceutical industry like the mafia?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"476\" height=\"248\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Richard_Smith.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Smith\" class=\"wp-image-22131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Richard_Smith.jpg 476w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Richard_Smith-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 476px) 100vw, 476px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>5 years on and still as fresh as todays&#8217; bread! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because that means nothing has changed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it desperately needs to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Too many lives are being wasted for lack of this knowledge by the many.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-the-bmj\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"xP2rlK6teX\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2013\/09\/10\/richard-smith-is-the-pharmaceutical-industry-like-the-mafia\/\">Richard Smith: Is the pharmaceutical industry like the mafia?<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Richard Smith: Is the pharmaceutical industry like the mafia?&#8221; &#8212; The BMJ\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2013\/09\/10\/richard-smith-is-the-pharmaceutical-industry-like-the-mafia\/embed\/#?secret=p7527U76DN#?secret=xP2rlK6teX\" data-secret=\"xP2rlK6teX\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 years on and still as fresh as todays&#8217; bread! Unfortunately. Because that means nothing has changed. And it desperately needs to. Too many lives are being wasted for lack of this knowledge by the many.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22132,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22130\/revisions\/22132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}