Derek Lowe is always the high-quality skeptic on all things pharma, and that’s a valuable role. Still, I feel like this isn’t really engaging with the issues:https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/05/01/why-are-clinical-trials-so-complicated …
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I could imagine a world where lower-quality trials were so useless that nobody intelligent believed them. In that case, legalizing them would be morally correct according to me, but a loss from a societal benefit perspective.
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Fortunately we have a great natural experiment right now! COVID19 drug & vaccine development is moving at much faster than usual speeds and skipping a lot of typical precautionary steps.
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If this “works” for generating drugs or vaccines that actually work, faster or cheaper than average, then we’ll know that there can be value in streamlining these processes.
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Ok w ppl killing themselves w bad drugs. But: 1) don’t want to pay for it, 2) want a forcing function to make companies do the hard work of producing data (and we fully know what happens when no such forcing function exists - see device medicine, or worse, procedural medicine).
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what's bad about procedural medicine?
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