Epstein Secrets

bo effect." It turns out that there have been many trials of the type Temple mentioned. In 2001, the Danish epidemiologist As- bjorn Hróbjartsson, of Copenhagen's Nordic Cochrane Center, along with his colleague Peter Gotzsche, published a systematic review of a hundred and four- teen clinical trials that com

immune-system disorders, chronic pain, a complaint made by virtually every- cancer. Our illnesses are complex, and we one who deals with the subject. Temple, need to approach them in more compre- who has for many years run the F.D.A.'s hensive ways. We try to identify drugs drug-evaluation department, is

ely called the pla- what happens in that group is a result of cebo effect." the placebo effect. And that is absolutely be headquarters i the foad and Temple, who has worked at the F.D.A. for four decades, rarely makes a campus called White Oak, on the far decision without angering somebody. He edge of Sil

fect." It turns out that there have been many trials of the type Temple mentioned. In 2001, the Danish epidemiologist As - bjern Hr6bjartsson, of Copenhagen's Nordic Cochrane Center, along with his colleague Peter Gotzsche, published a systematic review of a hundred and four- teen clinical trials that

shful thinking of drug manufacturers. And to the large and growing community that supports alternative approaches to medicine Tem- ple is Dr. No. Temple said that he understands why placebos attract people who become frus- trated when science fails to provide definitive answers. "The persistence of

mer Member of the Irish Senate David Stockman, Gen Partner, The Blackstone Group Peter Straarup, Chairman of the Executive Board, Den Danske Bank, Copenhagen Barry F. Sullivan, First National Bank of Chicago Peter Sutherland, Chairman, BP, London; Chairman and Managing Director, Goldman Sachs Internatio

ement. Yet the anti-Semitic charge disturbed Jews whom I asked about it in Palm Beach. Michael Resnick, rabbi at the oldest synagogue on the island, Temple Emanu-El (circa the sixties), says he strongly doubts that Epstein is a modern Dreyfus. "There's no way, shape, or form that you can say that Palm