I am familiar with the VIOXX disaster and others as well, but the vast majority have helped mankind. Have you ever conducted a clinical trial? I will answer for you: no you have not.
If you are concerned with psychotropic drugs, consider the fact that most people simply take ethanol to overcome their depression and anxieties. Where do you stand on that?
Disappointing strawman / red-herring logical misdirect.
The side-effects of drinking ethanol are well known, fully disclosed and dosage is up to the user.
The issue is that there have been too many instances of big pharma demonstrating repeated gross negligence and fraud for the drugs they manufacture and sell to the public.
Read the damn NIH medical study acknowledging that pharma has repeatedly been found guilty of conflict of interest bias due to self-funding clinical trials, cherry picking favorable results, and failing to disclose adverse reactions to the drugs they sell us.
The public, you, your children, your parents should Never have to take a medication that has undergone dishonest trial scrutiny to ensure high efficacy and safety.
Hippocratic oath states: “do no harm”.
Period, end of discussion.
The ClinicalTrials.gov Results Database — Update and Key Issues
“KEY TRIAL-REPORTING POLICIES
Section 801 of the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act (FDAAA)1
expanded the legal requirements for trial reporting at ClinicalTrials.gov.
(NIH study document direct quote, * emphasis added)
It was passed into law amid
concerns about *ethical and scientific issues affecting the design, conduct, and reporting of
clinical trials,2 *including the suppression and selective reporting of results based on the
interests of sponsors,3 unacknowledged alterations of prespecified outcome measures,4 “offshoring” of human-subjects research,5 and *failure to report relevant adverse events.6”
Per NIH study publication:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3066456/
RE: “I am familiar with the VIOXX disaster and others as well, but the vast majority have helped mankind. Have you ever conducted a clinical trial? I will answer for you: no you have not.
If you are concerned with psychotropic drugs, consider the fact that most people simply take ethanol to overcome their depression and anxieties. Where do you stand on that?”