Jan 11, 2017
12:31:14pm
12:31:14pm
The conflict of interest is mitigated by peer-review. Why do so many people
assume that big pharma consistently lies?
I'm a bioinformaticist/geneticist (not in pharmaceuticals, by-the-way, so no coi). Much of my work is in Alzheimer's disease, for which there are NO effective treatments. Drugs are very, very expensive to develop. Eli Lilly recently (like in the past couple months) announced the failure of a Phase 3 clinical trial for a new AD drug. They spent 100's of millions to develop the drug. All that money is now lost. The value of the company dropped when they announced it. How big was that loss? I don't know...
Initial results demonstrated that the drug was effective. Everybody expected it to pass phase 3 and be great. So, why did this evil company (with a HUGE conflict of interest) willingly lose so much money, rather than fudging the numbers to match what we all EXPECTED the outcome to be? Everybody would've believed them...
Vaccines, in contrast, are cheap and easy to develop. So, companies are willing to be honest when massive money and time (many years) are on the line, but when a vaccine, which is relatively cheap and easy to develop, is on the line, they lie?
And the CDC...what do they have to gain? My guess is they'd actually stay MUCH busier if more people refused to vaccinate....
I'm a bioinformaticist/geneticist (not in pharmaceuticals, by-the-way, so no coi). Much of my work is in Alzheimer's disease, for which there are NO effective treatments. Drugs are very, very expensive to develop. Eli Lilly recently (like in the past couple months) announced the failure of a Phase 3 clinical trial for a new AD drug. They spent 100's of millions to develop the drug. All that money is now lost. The value of the company dropped when they announced it. How big was that loss? I don't know...
Initial results demonstrated that the drug was effective. Everybody expected it to pass phase 3 and be great. So, why did this evil company (with a HUGE conflict of interest) willingly lose so much money, rather than fudging the numbers to match what we all EXPECTED the outcome to be? Everybody would've believed them...
Vaccines, in contrast, are cheap and easy to develop. So, companies are willing to be honest when massive money and time (many years) are on the line, but when a vaccine, which is relatively cheap and easy to develop, is on the line, they lie?
And the CDC...what do they have to gain? My guess is they'd actually stay MUCH busier if more people refused to vaccinate....
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Not getting your kid vaccinated and sending them to school or in public risks everyone else's kids, It's not a personal
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You are flat out wrong on this issue and all the dim-witted, unintelligent folks out banging the drum for this cause are
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