Reiman, Arnold

Arnold Reiman, professor emeritus at Harvard University and former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine. As a physician and influential editor of a prestigious medical journal, he became a strong critic of the drug industry. In his view, companies have distorted the medical evidence and scientific studies on drug safety and effectiveness and contributed to widespread overuse of prescription drugs. 

It might be best to respond to such charges by citing the conclusions from the most recent marijuana study, undertaken by the National Academy of Sciences and sponsored by the National Institute of Health. The report took over fifteen months to compile. Dr. Arnold Reiman, chairman of the study committee and editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, has called it "the broadest, most comprehensive, least biased assessment yet made of marijuana s effects on human health. 

During the late 1950s, and for about 20 years afterwards, laetrile (1-mandelonitrile-beta-glucuronoside), which is related to amygdalin, was touted as a cure for cancer (http //www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/ Cancer/laetrile.html). However, in 1982 Arnold Reiman, then Editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, pronounced that Laetrile has had its day in court. The evidence, beyond reasonable doubt, is that it doesn t benefit patients with advanced cancer, and there is no reason to believe that it would be any more effective in... 

Dalen, J.E. Is Integrative medicine the medicine of the future A debate between Arnold S. Reiman, MD, and Andrew Weil, MD. Arch. Intern. Med. 1999, 159 (18), 2122-2126. 

All in all, laboratory work was characterized by a large amount of uncertainty. Therefore, the communication and interaction of highly specialized scientists largely relied on trust.Chemist Carl Djerassi, father of the anti-baby (contraceptive) pill, included in his novel Cantor s Dilemma, a 1983 quote from the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, Arnold S. Reiman It seems paradoxical that scientific research, in many ways one of the most questioning and sceptical of human activities,... 

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