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we dont even know if they are actually involved in causing the impairment, but you can bet thats what big pharma will try to sell you 20 years ahead of old age.
by ekianjo 4y ago
we dont even know if they are actually involved in causing the impairment, but you can bet thats what big pharma will try to sell you 20 years ahead of old age.
- sokoloff 4y agoIf there's plausible (lower standard than credible) connection, I'll be happy to take their pills for 20 years after seeing the long declines brought about by Alzheimer's in several older people that I knew well.
- vidarh 4y agoI'd even be prepared to take drugs with a not unsubstantial risk of shortening my life expectancy if there was a plausible connection, after having seen both my grandmother's effectively being gone because of Alzheimer's for a decade before they physically died.
- ekianjo 4y agoYou can imagine that proving the efficacy of the drug over dozens of years is going to be especially challenging. No clinical trial ever does that.
- nradov 4y agoAnd what if those pills come with serious side effects, as most do?
- ekianjo 4y agoTaking pills for 20 years has a financial cost, and drugs typically cause side effects anyway (you dont have efficacy for free). That sounds like a bad calculation.