“Evidence-based medicine has been hijacked”: John Ioannidis (2016)

Re:“Evidence-based medicine has been hijacked”: John Ioannid... by rjkennedy98 on Friday July 05, 2019 @11:11AM (#20363086)

> The design of clinical trials still belongs to R&D and not Marketing/Sales departments.

This is FALSE. It's literally come out in court documents. https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2010/09/dan-markings...

> In 1997, when Dr. Andrew Goudie, a psychopharmacologist at the University of Liverpool, asked AstraZeneca to fund a research study he was planning, a company official replied that “R&D is no longer responsible for Seroquel research—it is now the responsibility of Sales and Marketing.” The official also noted that funding decisions would depend on whether the study was likely to show a “competitive advantage for Seroquel.”

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Re:“Evidence-based medicine has been hijacked”: John Ioannid... by ChrisLomont on Friday July 05, 2019 @11:23AM (#20363204)

>This is FALSE.

How do you demonstrate that one case implies all cases?

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Re:“Evidence-based medicine has been hijacked”: John Ioannid... by rjkennedy98 on Friday July 05, 2019 @11:33AM (#20363309)

This isn't a small company nor is it a minor drug. This is one of the largest drug companies running a trial on one of the most lucrative drugs in the world.

And secondly, why should ANY drug trial be managed by a PR department? When you ask people to risk their lives to be in a drug trial (in the link above the subject died in the trial), why should it be to improve the PR of a drug for one company. The fact that this exists at all is a major warning sign. The indifference of people to this is frankly amazing to me (its even worse than the disinformation provided by the OP).

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