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  • Big Pharma Pipeline: Why So Dry?
    Please take a look at the ratio of drug company marketing spending, to research spending. I maintain that when they started spending more on advertising, than on research, the number of new drugs discovered, tanked. The last article I saw on this subject says that they are now spending in the neighborhood of 2-3 times as much on marketing, as on research. Perhaps, if they just did the research (and did it right), and forgot the advertising, they could produce a few more new drugs.

    Then there is the use of questionable statistics in analyzing the data. The experts in the various medical fields cannot even agree that some of these new drugs are safe and effective for their intended uses. Given their recent record of producing drugs with so many questionable results, one has to wonder why they didn't discover that these drugs were not safe and effective until they were already on the market. Very poor science, it seems to me, and also very poor statistical analysis. And, I might add, very poor oversight by the regulators.

    Some return to basic good science, is perhaps all that is needed. That, and a little less marketing.
    Sep 02 23:23 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article

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