> whenever you read the percentage of patients that are noted as having a particular side effect from a medicine, the real percentage is much higher.

The patients self-report their own side effects, then the numbers go into the paper.

Are you suggesting the study operators are tampering with numbers before publishing?

This is why I encourage the reporting of any and all side-effects of any treatment to the FDA. Information withheld cannot be collected.

https://www.fda.gov/safety/medwatch-fda-safety-information-a...

And this just goes to reinforcing the beliefs of those who are skeptical of medical research. "Trust the science" is all well and good in theory except when the scientists are telling you a selective, cherry-picked story.