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Do you have any evidence for that? I don't have any background in pharma, but my background in stats tells me that the odds of passing a controlled study with a
by ced 15y ago
Do you have any evidence for that? I don't have any background in pharma, but my background in stats tells me that the odds of passing a controlled study with a placebo would be so low as to be economically infeasible.
- vannevar 15y agoIf I run a big clinical trial pitting a placebo against a useless drug, the odds of getting the same results from both are low: one is going to appear more effective than another. If I run a hundred of these kinds of trials, I'm virtually guaranteed to see a few cases where one appears much more effective than another. And if I test my worthless drug against an existing treatment that was approved through the same process, I may as well be testing against another placebo. I'm not suggesting all drugs are worthless; only that drug companies do not need to produce effective drugs to stay in business.