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Cursory reading is : EBM would be great, but we can't trust the "E" in EBM because people selling the "M" in EBM have a vesting interest in producing fake data
by phtrivier 5y ago
Cursory reading is : EBM would be great, but we can't trust the "E" in EBM because people selling the "M" in EBM have a vesting interest in producing fake data to justify selling more to the institutions hoping to do the "B".
It seems like the author think more "independant" parties would help (regulators ? white-label labs to do the testing instead of pharma labs ?)
All I can tell from the last two years is that I doubt people would really trust a "government agency" (or, anyone "paid by the taxpayers") more than "the corporate" lab.
(Case in point: the EU agencies that banned or suspended or restricted usage of some COVID-19 vaccines, at various points in the last year, are still mistrusted on the ground that they did not ban or suspend _one_ of the vaccines - which happens to be the most popular - hence "they must be in the pocket of lab X".)