"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
In Defense of the FDA A certain research chemist has this to say about the FDA:
Speaking as a researcher in the industry, I can say that the FDA drives us all nuts, but we need them. We need people to poke holes in the studies, to question the data, to give us a hard time. It's called science. It's how we've made it as far as we have.
Read his whole post about the pharma companies' use of statistics to hedge their research results. Unfortunately, this kind of numerical manipulation happens all to commonly in medical research of all stripes. posted by Sydney on
9/26/2002 06:54:00 AM
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