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It's not unusual, but it's still a massive conflict of interest. The drug companies are clearly incentivized to hire laboratories that just happen to come up wi
by pc2g4d 10y ago
It's not unusual, but it's still a massive conflict of interest. The drug companies are clearly incentivized to hire laboratories that just happen to come up with the "right" results. Alternatively, they can just hire a hundred studies and just use the one that happens, by chance, to turn out the way they want.
- zymhan 10y agoBut that's not how drug trials in the US are conducted. Drug companies work with the FDA from the start to get a drug through phase-1 and phase-2 trials. There's just simply no opportunity to test out a drug in 100 different studies with 100 different groups of people and cherry pick the study you want to submit to the FDA. The process doesn't work like that.