Healthy Skepticism Library item: 4116

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Publication type: Journal Article

Stein U.
Ginkgo biloba extracts
Lancet 1990; 335:475-476

Abstract:

The company did not go to court to block the publication of negative information about its products but rather false information. The value of ginkgo biloba is affirmed by the number of prescriptions written for it.

Keywords:
*letter to the editor/Germany/ reaction to critics/ginkgo biloba/Willmar Schwabe/PROMOTION DISGUISED: DISINFORMATION AND HARASSMENT