Foreigners turn to India in search of cut-price, life-saving cures

Re:Foreigners turn to India in search of cut-price, life-sav... by frozenport on Monday March 07, 2016 @06:36AM (#11238327)

Nonsense, disregarding the pink elephant in the room (reproducibility in academia) once a method has shown potential it is often spun off into some sort startup (often SBR recipients). If they keep gaining clout, a bigger pharmaceutical will buy them out. New medicines are developed 10% by a university and 90% by industry.

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Re:Foreigners turn to India in search of cut-price, life-sav... by dexterdog on Monday March 07, 2016 @07:16AM (#11238447)

And the university likely pockets a nice little "non-profit"

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Re:Foreigners turn to India in search of cut-price, life-sav... by crdoconnor on Monday March 07, 2016 @06:57AM (#11238385)

Not 90%. 58%. According to JAMA.

https://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=185198

When the public funds drug research it also doesn't "magically" discover that its drugs are really effective when they aren't:

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2006/06/1...

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Re:Foreigners turn to India in search of cut-price, life-sav... by frozenport on Monday March 07, 2016 @03:27PM (#11241367)

Actually when the public funds drug research it's often not reproducible 1. From personal experience the number of times when the work isn't a fabrication is less than the number of fingers on my right hand.

1 http://blog.scienceexchange.com/2012/04/the-need-for-reprodu...

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Re:Foreigners turn to India in search of cut-price, life-sav... by selimthegrim on Monday March 07, 2016 @07:59AM (#11238613)

You're seriously going to post Mercola on HN?

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Re:Foreigners turn to India in search of cut-price, life-sav... by selimthegrim on Monday March 07, 2016 @12:15PM (#11240017)

Yes, go ahead and down vote me for flagging links to a quack's website.

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Re:Foreigners turn to India in search of cut-price, life-sav... by dang on Monday March 07, 2016 @02:36PM (#11241000)

Please don't post comments about getting downvoted: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The comment was unsubstantive and dismissive. If there's something wrong with a source, it would be better to explain what that is instead of just snarking, which (a) undermines civility and (b) teaches us nothing.

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Re:Foreigners turn to India in search of cut-price, life-sav... by selimthegrim on Monday March 07, 2016 @03:24PM (#11241344)

Very well. Joseph Mercola[1] to put it politely, is not burdened by objective reproduction of claimed results when hawking his alternative remedies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Mercola

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Re:Foreigners turn to India in search of cut-price, life-sav... by crdoconnor on Monday March 07, 2016 @04:10PM (#11241709)

If you're going to disagree with the source, disagree with the source, not the website that cited the source:

"Researchers from the Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City examined four journals: American Journal of Psychiatry, Archives of General Psychiatry, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry and Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology. They found drugs were favored in roughly:"

Is Beth Israel full of quacks?

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Re:Foreigners turn to India in search of cut-price, life-sav... by selimthegrim on Monday March 07, 2016 @04:53PM (#11242048)

I doubt it, but since Mercola didn't link me to their meta-study I can't find the reference directly. It's not the JAMA link that was in the OP.

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