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You have an innate trust in the pharmaceutical industry. . your parents are statisticians. They know how those studies get made. The fact that they are highly e
by carrotcarrot 4y ago
You have an innate trust in the pharmaceutical industry. . your parents are statisticians. They know how those studies get made. The fact that they are highly educated statisticians and disagree with you may be a signal rather than a fluke
- woodruffw 4y agoThe person you're responding to didn't state any degree of trust in the pharmaceutical industry, only distrust in a separate and significantly less regulated industry.
- themitigating 4y agoHe never said they read those studies or why they believe in it
- lalaland1125 4y agoDo you have any citations for pharmaceutical trials being ineffective or frequently incorrect? You are right that the industry is highly untrustworthy, but that's exactly why the FDA process is so highly regulated to control for conflicts of interest.
- yonaguska 4y agoRemdisiver? Aduhelm? Brilinta? AZT? https://www.science.org/content/article/hidden-conflicts-pharma-payments-fda-advisers-after-drug-approvals-spark-ethical https://www.science.org/content/article/hidden-conflicts-pha... https://www.milbank.org/quarterly/articles/revisiting-financial-conflicts-of-interest-in-fda-advisory-committees/ https://www.milbank.org/quarterly/articles/revisiting-financ... Regulation without oversight and action is meaningless.
- richbell 4y agoOr, tangentially, atrazine. https://youtu.be/i5uSbp0YDhc https://youtu.be/i5uSbp0YDhc