In Saskatchewan, our evidence based researches have become more sophisticated and now instead of dumping researches in the toilette we dump them against front line health workers(1). We don't know yet how patient our workers are going to be, but it is certain that they are beginning to speak out in the face of the continuous dumping by our big brains(2). But don't think that irrelevant researches are occurring only in Saskatchewan, they are spread all over the world. See, with the globalization promoted by the World Trade Organization we are supporting no-fault governments and as a consequence we are supporting no-fault researches, and as a consequence we are supporting the commercialization of researches. Therefore, all over the world we find that researches are conducted in a state of planned confusion, that is we conduct research after research for eventually coming up with a breakthrough, the invention of a service or of a product for which all mankind is going to be addicted for the benefit of our corporate welfare. So, today, I read a study concluding that the wearing of a bra is correlated to breast pains and cysts(3). Our reductionist researchers are smart, they put themselves on a higher pedestal than ours and say:

A hundred women who regularly suffered from breast pain or cysts were asked to go without a bra for three months and then return to wearing one for three months to see if there was any difference. The researchers found that pre-menopausal women not wearing a bra experienced a 7% reduction in the number of days they suffered breast pain. However, little benefit was found for post-menopausal women.

This research reminds me of the industrialized researches we covered in a previous article(4), and I would not be surprised that as a spin off of this "bra research" we are going to have another research related to the wearing of a specific commercial bra and purporting the claim that this commercial bra reduces the development of breast pains and cysts. We are reaching the stage where our scientific researches are becoming pure frauds. In this respect we can refer to Dr. David Cassidy's study on no-fault insurance(5) and to the ongoing concerns of an increasing number of researchers having personal financial relationships with their sponsors(6) and the lack of stringent policies by major research institutions to cope with conflict of interests(7).

Now you know why Dr. P. Cote, a collaborator of Dr. Cassidy, has stated that Saskatchewan is a nice province to do research(8).

References/Endnotes

Articles by Mario deSantis

1. HSURC Commission: Another Study, Another Dump, by Mario deSantis, October 31, 2000 http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/desantisArticles/2000_200/desantis253/HSURC.html

2. Royal University Hospital: $7.5 million blunder and nobody is accountable, by Mario deSantis, October 24, 2000 http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/desantisArticles/2000_200/desantis244/noaccountability.html

3. British study links bras to cysts and breast cancer, Oliver Poole, The Sunday Telegraph, October 31, 2000 http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20001031/446500.html

4. The Only Conclusion of Industrialized Health Researches: "Go Figure" and Use Your Common Sense, by Mario deSantis, October 24, 2000 http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/desantisArticles/2000_200/desantis243/gofigure.html

5. The Incredible Abuse of Saskatchewan No-Fault Insurance, by Mario deSantis and reviewed by James deSantis, May 31, 2000 http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/desantisArticles/2000/desantis173/nofaultPt1.html

6. Assessing Faculty Financial Relationships With Industry A Case Study, Elizabeth A. Boyd, PhD; Lisa A. Bero, PhD http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/current/abs/joc01033.html

7. Policies on Faculty Conflicts of Interest at US Universities, Mildred K. Cho; Ryo Shohara; Anna Schissel; Drummond Rennie JAMA. 2000;284:2203-2208 http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/current/abs/joc01590.html

8. Going back to the gold standard with SGI's researches, by Mario deSantis, August 4, 2000 http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/desantisArticles/2000_200/desantis208/drCote.html