Is mainstream medicine evil? Flashcards

1
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Ranking of pharmaceutical companies in making money?

A

3rd most profitable

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2
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Me-too drugs

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copy cat drugs that are just slightly different

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3
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What are the three phases a “pill” must go through to make it to market?

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1) if it can be excreted
2) “proof of concept” in a relatively big trail
3) blind trail in a super large group

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4
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where do most companies fail>

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they fail in phase two- the “proof of concept”

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5
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Tricks to get a pill to market (sneaky)

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1) study “winners”
2) compare to useless controls
3) make the competitor look bad with administration manipulation

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6
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How to be sneaky with result presentation?

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do not list certain side-effects (aorgasm)
surroate results for something you know will work
present negative results breifly and not in a graph

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7
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manipulate stats

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1) ignore protocol and

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