{"id":352,"date":"2005-12-12T10:49:44","date_gmt":"2005-12-12T18:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/12\/mercks-deleted-data\/"},"modified":"2005-12-21T23:17:04","modified_gmt":"2005-12-22T07:17:04","slug":"mercks-deleted-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/12\/mercks-deleted-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Merck&#8217;s Deleted Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/07\/nail-fungus-and-herbal-remedies\/\" target=\"_blank\">I was saying<\/a>, drug companies can sometimes be real <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2005\/12\/08\/merck-vioxx-lawsuits_cx_mh_1208vioxx.html?partner=weekly_newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">jackasses<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s <strong>REALLY<\/strong> 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&#8217;s <del>absolutely no<\/del> 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, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clinical_control_group\" target=\"_blank\">controlled groups<\/a> are set up like that so that variables are limited and &#8220;controlled&#8221; so that they can accurately see what&#8217;s working\/not working if they tweak the variables here and there. That&#8217;s why drugs are so expensive in the U.S. because at least the &#8220;drug overlords&#8221; here do conduct these researches even though the results are usually &#8220;tweaked&#8221; in favor of business, not science. <\/p>\n<p>If you are a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/Law_&#038;_Order\/\" target=\"_blank\">Law &#038; Order<\/a> fan like I used to be, the CEO of a drug company in one episode said it best, [somewhere along the line of] &#8220;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.&#8221; And then he went on to suggest the cops should be out looking for real murderers, not drug company CEOs.<\/p>\n<p>Science, justice, ethics and business. Choices, choices and choices.<\/p>\n<p>via [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\" target=\"_blank\">Forbs.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like I was saying, drug companies can sometimes be real jackasses. What&#8217;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&#8217;s absolutely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/12\/mercks-deleted-data\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Merck&#8217;s Deleted Data&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,16,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-logo","category-politics","category-rant"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-5G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}