This is some RFK level bullshit designed to make people question safe medicine.
Mods, yank this.
Yes, companies who make drugs pay for studies to test whether or not their drugs are safe and effective. They’re fucking supposed to.
In order for a drug to be legally used, pharmaceutical companies pay for trials and studies about their drug, and have those trials and studies vetted by multiple independent governmental regulatory bodies around the world.
Many antidepressants are old as fuck, have been studied to high hell, have generics that no longer produce large financial incentives, and have been independently vetted by regulators around the world.
It’s to be expected that an industry would want to study the safety of its own products—although it could point to the need for more independent research. What is a cause for concern is this:
Another study published in Scientific American found that meta-analyses by industry employees were 22 times less likely to have negative statements about a drug than those run by unaffiliated researchers.
That does suggest that the meta-analyses (as opposed to primary studies) are being used more for marketing than for product improvement.
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This is some RFK level bullshit designed to make people question safe medicine.
Mods, yank this.
Yes, companies who make drugs pay for studies to test whether or not their drugs are safe and effective. They’re fucking supposed to.
In order for a drug to be legally used, pharmaceutical companies pay for trials and studies about their drug, and have those trials and studies vetted by multiple independent governmental regulatory bodies around the world.
Many antidepressants are old as fuck, have been studied to high hell, have generics that no longer produce large financial incentives, and have been independently vetted by regulators around the world.
It’s to be expected that an industry would want to study the safety of its own products—although it could point to the need for more independent research. What is a cause for concern is this:
That does suggest that the meta-analyses (as opposed to primary studies) are being used more for marketing than for product improvement.
Pharma companies pay for their own efficacy and safety studies just like car companies pay for their own crash tests. They’re required to.