FDA approval of Alzheimer's drug prioritizes profit over public health

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Opinion | The FDA's controversial approval of an ineffective new Alzheimer's drug is part of a long history of the agency prioritizing profit over public health. By _pem_pem.

, it was found that 60 of the 73 published drug studies were funded by the pharmaceutical industry, 50 studies included authors who were also employees of the industry, and 37 had accepted money from drug companies.

This means that the impetus for much scientific research these days is not whether a new drug or product will be good for the public, but whether it will make money. One 2010 analysis, written about by Ben Goldacre in the book", found that 85% of drug trials produced by the industry gave positive results, whereas only 50% of government-funded studies did.

Drug trials themselves are biased toward profit-making. Drug companies routinely quash studies that show their new drugs to be less effective than old ones, and. As detailed in"Bad Pharma", analyses show that most research demonstrating SSRIs to be ineffective is simply never published — of 74 studies on antidepressants published between 1987 and 2004, 38 showed the drugs were effective, and 36 showed they were not.

The problem with Aduhelm, as it's been presented in the mainstream media, is of one particularly egregious FDA approval, but reporting and analysis of this scandal misses a much larger and more dangerous reality: The corruption of science in the US is endemic to the way science is funded. The solution to this bad science will be hard to come by because the problem runs so deep. Schools that conduct scientific research have had their federal aid decreased, and

 

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_pem_pem ...kinda like with mRNA Vaccines.

_pem_pem this is terrible news

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