Like I was saying, drug companies can sometimes be real jackasses.
What’s REALLY wrong with drug-company-published research data is, they get to conduct the researches, pick the best results to their likings and publish those they think reflect to best performing results. The same process I believe also goes to the peer reviews. There’s absolutely no so much subjectivity in the entire research from beginning to end. Also, these researches are often conducted with a very limited sample population, usually in a narrow age group, background and pre-existing conditions. However, to their defense, controlled groups are set up like that so that variables are limited and “controlled” so that they can accurately see what’s working/not working if they tweak the variables here and there. That’s why drugs are so expensive in the U.S. because at least the “drug overlords” here do conduct these researches even though the results are usually “tweaked” in favor of business, not science.
If you are a Law & Order fan like I used to be, the CEO of a drug company in one episode said it best, [somewhere along the line of] “the very few of those who die from using our drugs are necessary in the interest of advancing drug research; we save far more lives than we kill.” And then he went on to suggest the cops should be out looking for real murderers, not drug company CEOs.
Science, justice, ethics and business. Choices, choices and choices.
via [Forbs.com]