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What's the economic interest of claiming the medication doesn't work?
by tunesmith 6y ago
What's the economic interest of claiming the medication doesn't work?
- pdog 6y agoThere a huge battle going on between hydroxychloroquine (the Republican therapy of choice when combined with a zinc supplement) and remdesivir (the antiviral drug by Gilead that's preferred by anti-Trump liberals). To answer your question, there can be an economic interest in claiming a competitor treatment (which is generic and manufactured cheaply) doesn't work.
- saas_sam 6y agoTo prop up a competing medication.
- rlp 6y agoIncreased sales of a competing medication, like Remdesivir.
- comicjk 6y agoThe company that provided the data, Surgisphere, might have been trying to raise their profile by getting a big publication. They're a bit shady. https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/06/02/surgisphere-and-their-data https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/06/02/su...