Forcing pharma companies to publish all their research is like asking startups to publish data on every technology stack they used & tested, everything from A/B

Forcing pharma companies to publish all their research is like asking startups to publish data on every technology stack they used & tested, everything from A/B testing, usage stats etc. Interesting, yes. Funny it was your industry, probably not. Sometimes in a clinical trial a drug is discovered to not "work" in some patients, for example ones that have a concurrent condition (drug x works fine except if patient also has condition y). The results of that trial may not be published. Trials can be used to fine tune the profile of the patient you ultimately want to prescribe it to. I don't really understand what the problem is with that. Companies in almost all industries conduct research behind close doors. I worked for big pharma doing clinical trials for 5 years and really disliked it, but I feel there's a serious witchhunt going on. People are being very vocal over something they know little about.