Is mainstream medicine evil? Flashcards
Ranking of pharmaceutical companies in making money?
3rd most profitable
Me-too drugs
copy cat drugs that are just slightly different
What are the three phases a “pill” must go through to make it to market?
1) if it can be excreted
2) “proof of concept” in a relatively big trail
3) blind trail in a super large group
where do most companies fail>
they fail in phase two- the “proof of concept”
Tricks to get a pill to market (sneaky)
1) study “winners”
2) compare to useless controls
3) make the competitor look bad with administration manipulation
How to be sneaky with result presentation?
do not list certain side-effects (aorgasm)
surroate results for something you know will work
present negative results breifly and not in a graph
manipulate stats
1) ignore protocol and