When patients/doctors are willing to put all their eggs in one basket (FDA approval), this seems like a perfectly reasonable business plan. However, for the be

When patients/doctors are willing to put all their eggs in one basket (FDA approval), this seems like a perfectly reasonable business plan. However, for the best chance to find out if your drug really is working the way you think it does, you will need actual public examination of the results. You'll want to see what critiques people come up with, make some predictions about future results, whether an independent group can replicate your work, etc. Although it is nowhere near a guarantee, sharing your results/methods is another of those heuristics (like do independent replications, and make precise predictions about future observations) that served as the basis of science for so long. More and more I see science being replaced by "something else". This something else is definitely a faster process...